US Senators Unveil Plan Curb Oil Futures Speculation

it's all bullshit

they have regulations because the market can be manipulated.

Quote from CoralReef:

So let me get this straight. ALLLLLLLLL these years our commodity markets were the worldwide model for finding an equilibrium price level for ags, metals, energy, etc. and the best price discovery mechanism that exists.


NOW all of a sudden the shit don't work? :p

These politicians should go back to their hookers and gay sex and leave the financial/fut markets alone.
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keep you free market price discovery bullshit in college finance and economics class.

this is the real world.

where there is profits there is criminal activity.




Quote from CoralReef:

So let me get this straight. ALLLLLLLLL these years our commodity markets were the worldwide model for finding an equilibrium price level for ags, metals, energy, etc. and the best price discovery mechanism that exists.


NOW all of a sudden the shit don't work? :p

These politicians should go back to their hookers and gay sex and leave the financial/fut markets alone.
More...
 
Price fixing and market collusion.




Quote from CoralReef:

So let me get this straight. ALLLLLLLLL these years our commodity markets were the worldwide model for finding an equilibrium price level for ags, metals, energy, etc. and the best price discovery mechanism that exists.


NOW all of a sudden the shit don't work? :p

These politicians should go back to their hookers and gay sex and leave the financial/fut markets alone.
More...
 
Quote from vince111:

keep you free market price discovery bullshit in college finance and economics class.

this is the real world.

where there is profits there is criminal activity.
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I agree that thin markets have potential for manipulation but the oil markets are too big with too many big players and huge corps with vested interest. Oil markets are defenitly not manipulated. Maybe on the tick level but you can't manipulate crude from 10 to 110. Sorry, cant happen.
 
Speculators are as fickle as they come.

Oil prices would have collapsed a long time ago if this rise was due to pure speculation without any fundamental reasons behind the rise in price.

An energy revolution is happening. Things will be very different in 10-15 years.
 
price discovery is another word for price gouging or 'scalping'.

hedge funds buying up all the contracts.




Quote from CoralReef:

I agree that thin markets have potential for manipulation but the oil markets are too big with too many big players and huge corps with vested interest. Oil markets are defenitly not manipulated. Maybe on the tick level but you can't manipulate crude from 10 to 110. Sorry, cant happen.
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The I-Banks like Goldman, and the big hedgies are jamming up the Ags and oil by piling in LONG. It's a pretty one sided market when Joe Sixpack piker goes short 2 CL, and Goldman buys 5000 long at a clip. They are parking the free fed money into commodity futures, because they can't make much in S&P futures right now. Something needs to break because the US economy can't bear $5 gas.
 
Where were all of the greedy speculators back in 98 when oil was trading at $11????

Can speculators not short crude as well as long?

Unbelievable. Anything the government touches turns to shit but now they're going to come in and save the day?
 
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