Category: Futures, Options and Commodities
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Four Arguments for Investing in Commodities
It is always Darkest Before the Dawn: Four Arguments for Investing in Commodities [box]In this paper, Parametric Head of Investment Strategy Tim Atwill makes the case that, despite recent returns, a strategic allocation to the commodity asset class still makes sense on a forward-looking basis, given its desirable combination of inflation protection and low correlation…
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13 Resources to Empower Women Investors
At a time when women are still making less money than their male counterparts for equal work, the nonprofit Alliance for Investor Education (AIE) is now offering “Women and Investing: Resources to Empower Female Investors” at http://www.investoreducation.org/womeninvesting. AIE is a consortium of 15 leading U.S. financial-related foundations, nonprofit organizations, associations and governmental agencies. Whether it’s…
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Why Do We Gamble…on Horses, Slots or Wall Street?
“Visitors to Las Vegas lose around $6 billion a year at the casinos. Yet we keep going back. Even though we know logically that we’ll lose money and that the odds are literally stacked against us, we hold out hope that we will be the special one who hits blackjack and goes home rich. Close your eyes…
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Why China Is Really Dictating the Oil Supply Glut
Ship tracking data from Bloomberg shows that 83 supertankers carrying around 166 million barrels of oil are headed to China, which has stockpiled an impressive 787,000 barrels a day in the first quarter of 2016—the highest stockpiling rate since 2014. China Is Really Dictating the Oil Supply Glut. While the world was speculating about oil prices plunging…
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Saudi Arabia Releases Ambitious Plan To Diversify Economy
On Monday, Saudi Arabia released a blueprint for the future, a plan for the Kingdom that could alter the course of its history. The “Vision for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” could radically transform Saudi Aramco, the Saudi economy, and the country’s social structure. The plan has been pioneered by the 30-year-old Deputy Crown Prince…
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Lithium War Heats Up After Epic Launch Of Tesla Model 3
The unveiling of Tesla’s Model 3 electric car was no less than the lifting of the final curtain on a game-changing energy revolution. And if we follow that revolution to its core, we arrive at lithium—our new gasoline for which the feeding frenzy has only just begun. Unveiled just on 31 March and already with…
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The Art of War and the Laws of Economics
To garner extraordinary profit you must first of all wake up so that you can see the truth and understand both the art of war and the laws of economics. We will concern ourselves with opportunities for speculative profits based on government intervention into the free market. This is a study of human action by…
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Is the biggest short yet to come?
Q: Is the biggest short yet to come? A: Yes. I think so. We are in a much larger bubble than the Internet/Tech Bubble or the Real Estate/Subprime Mortgage Bubble. Q: What is the bubble and how did it develop? A: Before I explain, I need to cover a few economic principles. Every transaction involves…
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The Fixed System of Option Trading
The Fixed System (option trading service) offered is as follows. All securities and cash stay with your broker or bank. We provide you with buy and sell orders. The client transmits these orders to his bank or broker for execution. Our fee is twenty-five percent of profits in excess of fifteen percent per annum. Q: What is…