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I thought the same thing till I read this article. I glanced at the COT numbers before but I didn't know what to make of them ... Here is one paragraph that may have some value: "If a trader bought the S&P500 index when commercial traders hit an extreme net position (two or more standard...

Recently I read a very interesting article about ways to trade the COT report (SFO Magazine, Nov issue page 64). Anybody else uses COT report in their trading? If yes, did it help enhance your trading results :confused:

I agree with you, employees are treated like robots ... the whole purpose of getting educated is to learn how to follow directions :D The only excape from being a robot is self employment. Then you get to do what you like, when you like it and have nobody else to blame but yourself :D I...

do you speak from experience or this is hear say :confused:

the content may be interesting however is not really up to date ... :eek:

you seem to know the answers to your own questions ....

hedging with the futures contract is the riskiest way ... not too much room for error. i hope that company has a trading desk who can watch the treasury futures around the clock from Mon through Fri :D

how come i don't get one? i asked for it a month ago .. :confused:

why would a company have to hedge against unemployment? unemployment is one of the biggest fears of an employee .. not employer. if there is recession than there should be lots of workforce available due to layoffs by other companies. no need to hedge there ... as far as hedging against...

Dec CL contract expires in few days ... if you have a longer time frame try January contract. Just beware that January trades at a lower price. Inverted market due to supply concerns. Good trading :D

yep ... marging increases with volatility. no surprise there. hopefully who ever trades CL, GC, SI is well capitalized :D

guys ... instead of fighting we should stick together .. it's US against the MARKET, remember? If you have anger issues just take it with the market ... or your broker :D

On the bright side MGForex and Forex.com are registered with NFA. On the flip side MGForex charges $20 per night for short positions plus $100 maintenance fee for accounts under $5k. Forex.com charges $25/nite per short position so traders "don't take advantage of the high rollovers" ...

Depends how well they hedge themselves .... for instance if they constantly took the opposite side of the short GBPJPY pair, they probably made lots of money for the last 7 years ... If one "wins big" with Crown then it looses big with the other side of the carry trade. It's probably a good...

depends what do you mean by long term .... i have an account with crown forex and so far i was able to withdraw money, although the process took longer than usual due to all kind of excuses ... nobody knows when/if they're going to pull the plug. this is why i'm inquiring about possible...

Depends on the time frame .... if your time frame is a BIT LONGER I'd suggest the following unortodox approach. 1. sell close to the money put and collect a fat premium 2. if you were right about direction of the move by expiration you keep the premium. Repeat 3. if you were wrong (the...

A huge influence on grains market are supply and demand as well as rumors, weather expectations, etc .... As far as TA is concerned support & resistance levels are most trustworthy. Compared to stocks none of the agriculturals will ever trade close to 0 :D

Are there any brokers out there who offer no swap accounts regardless of religion? The only broker I found so far is Crown Forex .... Thanks:D

In the hindsight 950 was a good resistance level :D Right now everybody's running for exits and 830 seems to be the support level :p

If I understood correctly, you're short from 900. Last nite's low was 835. I hope you don't mind me asking ... Are you still in? If yes, please share with us why ... just curious.