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Technical Price Levels and Trading Dow Futures Volume at Price Indicators for Uncharted Territories Trading Confidence: Position Analysis - Mini-Dow Futures Trading Illuminating the Agricultural Futures Markets with Candlestick Analysis Locating Market Levels in Advance Means a Level Head Later Combining techniques to gain a trading edge: Applying Candlestick Charting and Pivot Point Analysis to the Trading of CBOT mini-sized Dow Futures Type of Orders Stop order Fill or Kill order SEAQ, SETS, SEATS Plus or SEAQ International Stocks Categories of Stock Types of Stock Bonds Funds Mutual Funds Exchange - Traded Fund (ETF) Bonds Forward contract Non-deliverable forward Basis Broker Depth of market (DOM) Open Outcry Trading at CME Full map of the CME trading floors Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) General Structure of a Managed Account General Structure of a Futures Fund Commodity Pool Operator (CPO) Hedge Funds - overwiew Hedge Funds - REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS FEDERAL SECURITIES LAWS: Exemption from Registering Hedge Fund Interests As Securities FEDERAL SECURITIES LAWS: Exemption from Registration as an Investment Adviser Exemptions from Registration as a Commodity Trading Advisor About the Introducing Brokers Introducing Brokers: Volume and Commissions Introducing Brokers: Income Associated Persons (APs): The Exam CTA career: Discretionary Strategies CTA career: Registration Requirements, Cost CTA Registration and Audits: Being Audit Ready, General Information and Records Proprietary Traders "Local" Traders Scalpers Proprietary Traders Rate of Return Calculations Margin-to-Equity Ratio Commission-to-Equity Ratio Sharpe Ratio Requirements for Floor Brokers What is the NYSE? What is the NYSE Arca? How the NASDAQ Market Works? How to Read a Stock Table The major UK indices Price Earnings ratio (P/E) Top Down and Bottom Up Strategy Value v growth strategy Large v small cap strategy Understanding Warrants Managed Futures: Pitfalls in Performance Evaluation Secrets of Successful Trading in Commodities and Financial Futures The Genesis of Over The Counter Interest Rate Derivatives Dow Theory Introduction Types of Equity Derivative Naked short selling Municipal bond Credit derivative Money market Money fund Treasury Securities (notes. bills, bonds etc.) Federal funds Commercial paper Certificate of deposit Eurodollar deposits London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) Euro Interbank Offered Rate (EURIBOR) Prime rate Indexes DAX Dow Jones Industrial Average Component Weights of Stocks in the DJIA FTSE 100 NIKKEI 225 Standard and Poor's 500 Index Component Weights of Stocks in the S&P 500 Standard & Poor's U.S. Style indices What is a Futures Contract? Leverage: Small movements can create big profits! Margins Month Codes Buying (Going Long) to Profit from an Expected Price Increase Selling (Going Short) to Profit from an Expected Price Decrease About the National Futures Association (NFA) Complete history of the Futures Contract? Contract Specifications: mini-sized Dow ($5) CBOT Contract Specifications: DJIA Futures ($10 Multiplier) CBOT Contract Specifications: Corn CBOT TOP 4 U.S. FUTURES EXCHANGES TOP 10 GLOBAL FUTURES CONTRACTS TOP 10 U.S. FUTURES CONTRACTS TOP 10 CME FUTURES CONTRACTS RANKED BY VOLUME Delivery CME Eurodollar Futures CME Eurodollar Futures CME LIBOR Futures Option, Call Option, Put Option, Option Buyer, Option Seller, Puts and Calls In-the-money, At-the-money, Out-of-the-money Delta The option strike price Time Value Decay Strategy A: Buying calls to take advantage of a rising stock market Strategy B: Buying put options to profit from declining live cattle prices Strategy C: Straddles Using Options on CME E-mini S&P 500 futures Basic Option Strategies: Initiating a Market Position Long Futures (1 Long April Live Cattle Futures) Short Futures (1 Short September Euro FX Futures) Synthetic Long Futures (Split Strike) Long Butterfly Long Straddle Ratio Call Spread Call Ratio Backspread Box or Conversion / Reversal Futures or Options? FOREX - what is it? About crosses Currency swap Bid/Ask spread Many buyers and many sellers Many buyers and many sellers, part 2 Structure of the foreign exchange market International date line of the forex Electronic conversations per hour Dealers and forex market Dealer - trader Everybody loves dollars, the forex too SPOT "American or european terms" Numerator and denominator Futures Forex means "no limits"? Forex forecasting What is the Currenex? Crawling peg Linked exchange rate Endaka FxMarketSpace Retail forex Snake in the tunnel Forex size to NYSE volume, US$ reserves, futures Tax Advantages of the Forex Market Bretton Woods system Forex turnover - U.S. Dollar, Euro, Yen, Pound sterling, Swiss Franc, Canadian Dollar Forex turnover - other currencies Forex turnover - US dollar against: EUR, JPY, GBP, CHF Forex turnover - US dollar against: other currencies Forex turnover - Euro against: USD, JPY, GBP, CHF Forex turnover - Euro against: other currencies Foreign exchange turnover by country and currency Forex turnover - Outright forward transactions by country and maturity Forex turnover - Swap transactions by country and maturity Total Forex turnover by country (1989-2007) SPOT Forex turnover by country (1989-2007) Notional amounts outstanding of OTC Forex derivatives by instrument, counterparty and currency Execution methods for foreign exchange transactions Introduction Example 1 - Crude Oil Producer's Short Hedge Example 2 - Electricity Producer Fears a Price Decline Example 3 - Petroleum Marketer's Long Hedge, Rising and Falling Markets Strip Trades Spread Trades What is Spread Betting? How trade? Neural network technology and trading systems Profit Target Exits Gunning Slippage Contrarian Trading Testing speed Linear Programming Optimization & Curve-Fitting What if the Markets Change? Monte Carlo Simulations Walk-Forward Testing What are genetic algorithms? A Plan for Identifying and Trading Pullbacks Automated Trading Systems for Financial Markets and Recommendations for Their Usage What are Commodities? Commodity futures contract Commodity categories Henry Hub Natural Gas Heating Oil Uranium COMEX Gold COMEX Silver NYMEX Cocoa Futures NYMEX Coffee Futures NYMEX No. 11 Sugar Futures CME Snowfall Futures CME Hurricane Futures Traging The Weather CME Swap Rate futures CME$INDEX Futures CME Credit Index Event contracts CME Swaps on Swapstream
