Sorry to hear about the trade gone wrong. A $2850 USD loss is a hard and expensive lesson. If it's any consolation, I bet most traders (yours...
George, I don't want this to come across as flippant, but if you're a speculator I don't know why you're concentrating on the MGEX and its...
LX008 - I don't think so. I've followed these reports for a long time and I'm not aware of allegations concerning an illegal early release....
George, Are you involved in the cash (physical) grain trade? I ask because although that weekly summary from US Wheat Associates is helpful in...
And that's probably a derivative (ha!) of a lesson mothers and grandmothers have been teaching since the beginning of time: "Don't grow up to...
Edit to add the comment I'm responding to: ***There is no way you are going from 12% in an IRA to 60% in a non IRA using the same stock and...
Monthly USDA supply and demand report, currently being released at 11A CT.
Re the 12% ROI on cash secured puts: I am going to re-think my activity in the tax-deferred accounts. I was looking through my trade database and...
I don't know if the terminology is the same with options on equity index futures, but in the physical commodity futures world, April would be...
I did a double-take when I read your post. After glancing at a couple of chemical and fertilizer companies this a.m., I just signed into ET and...
Assuming he followed all licensing and disclosure requirements, there might not be grounds to investigate. There are far worse characters out...
I think 2.75 hours of the cut is a very good idea. A 2P CT close and a 5P open never made much sense because the former is too late for Europe and...
Beginning April 8, electronic and floor trading hours for CBOT Corn, Soybeans, Wheat, Soybean Meal, Soybean Oil, Rough Rice, Oats, and KCBT Wheat...
He's definitely full of himself. At www.fooledbyrandomness.com this gem is at the bottom of the home page: "Lectures and lecture requests...
I don't know how long this site has been around - at the top it says "beta" - but it looks like a trade selection service for people new to...
Comintel - I've attached a simple chart that shows the daily IV (settlement only) for three corn and wheat options during the height of the 2012...
Comintel, I agree that an option trader had a large window in which to buy call options in both 1988 and 2012 (see charts in the above posts), but...
The attached file contains the daily corn IV, as measured by the CBOT/CBOE corn VIX for 2012 (it's front month weighted).
The attached file contains the daily IV from 1988.
I have two record sets at hand, with a gap between 2001 and 2004, but they're both large and should give a fair approx of "old" and "new" values....
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