Invest Offshore

Category: Futures, Options and Commodities

  • Online Trading and Offshore Investing

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    Offshore investments have gotten a bad rap in the past for illegal activities like tax evasion and money laundering. While this still happens occasionally, occurrences are much less frequent. Now, a record number of individuals are taking advantage of offshore opportunities, and it’s 100% legal. There are several ways to use an offshore investment to…

  • Bernanke Speaks…will you Listen?

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    Image via Wikipedia Not only is tomorrow a Fed decision day on rates Bernanke will be interviewed so expect fireworks. Inside day in Crude oil as we failed to make a new low with prices closing only marginally lower. Our bearish bias exists but we would like to see confirmation. On a break lower we…

  • Saxo Bank adds Brazilian futures exchange

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    From April 18 Saxo Bank offers direct online trading of Bovespa index futures and a futures contract tracking the USD/Brazilian Real currency cross on the Brazilian futures exchange. By providing access to the Brazilian exchange, Saxo Bank will enable investors to diversify into a new geography and further spread their portfolio exposure across asset classes.…

  • Why Commodities in a Portfolio

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    This is not an April Fools joke…commodities belong in all portfolios if an investor has some risk aversion just look what’s happening in commodities compared to other asset classes. Crude has its highest close in 2011 to kick off the first trading day in Q2. The momentum should carry prices upwards of $110/barrel but we…

  • Fat Tuesday

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    Our wallets as consumers are not fat with the rising price of commodities this Fat Tuesday…from gas to a loaf of bread prices are moving higher. Crude is showing signs of exhaustion…NO I’m net advising getting short but a $5-7 correction seems reasonable. A trade back to just the 20 day MA in May drags…

  • Day Trading: Risk Averse need not Apply

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    Traders are often lured to into the futures markets with a fascination for day trading. The thought of trading leveraged contracts without overnight risk is appealing to many, but underestimated by most. As a retail broker I have had the pleasure, and the pain, of watching day traders attempt to profit through strategies ranging from…

  • Israel Set To Join the Rich Countries Club

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    Israel, there is good news and bad news. The good news – and it is huge – is that Israel will soon be awash in natural gas. Gas discovered on the country’s outer continental shelf will turn the country from being hydrocarbon-deprived to being a net exporter. Indeed, Israel is set to become so rich…

  • Oil Price Could Doom Obama

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    Like death and taxes, the price of oil is always with us. And like taxes, it may be President Barack Obama’s worst nightmare at election time next year. Among forecasters, there is a sharp division between those who see an inexorable rise in the price of oil and those who believe it will stabilize about…

  • Why Uranium Will Make Someone Rich

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    Uranium is a very unusual sector. For one, it’s small. So small, that at one point in history top-producing nations like Canada and France tried to form a uranium cartel to control prices for the metal. The “uranium OPEC” failed. But production today is de facto controlled by a handful of companies. Consider this. The…