commodities
commodities
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by Thomas Cathey - 2007-07-31
Of all the important skills in trading, survival is number one. For unless we make it through the inevitable bad times, we won't be around to capitalize on the good. I've laid out some trading a...
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by Amar Mahallati - 2007-08-23
When you trade commodities, as with any other type of speculation, there are no guarantees. Just as with anything else, you can either make or lose a lot of money, sometimes in a short period of time....
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by Amar Mahallati - 2007-08-23
If you're a commodities trader or are looking to become one, you know that two elements motivate you: speculation and hedging. Although speculation and hedging are not mutually exclusive and you can d...
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by Amar Mahallati - 2007-08-27
There are several different types of commodities. Commodities are categorized so that it's easier to price compare, do research, and to make other trade tasks convenient. If you're an investor who wan...
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by Amar Mahallati - 2007-08-27
From roughly 1974 to 2004, the S&P 500 trended upward. In contrast, the CRB, or Commodity Research Bureau, trended down. The CRB is the same as the Dow Jones Index, which is a mathematical combination...
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by Amar Mahallati - 2007-08-29
Although it might not stand to commonsense, stocks and bonds can indeed be traded as commodities. Especially if you're novice investor, you probably don't see that the statistical measurements of chan...
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by Amar Mahallati - 2007-08-29
If you're confused by commodities, you're not alone.For a short lesson in how this works, let's do a quick overview. Most trades work by investors' buying and selling futures contracts, rather than tr...
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by Amar Mahallati - 2007-08-29
If you've been reading the newspaper lately, you've doubtless seen how much inflation has gone up over the last two years. You might be thinking, as many do, that this is likely to continue for the ne...
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by Amar Mahallati - 2007-09-03
When you do fundamental analysis within commodities trading, you look at economic factors, including crop yields, weather predictions, new oil extraction technology or new mines opened, and the like. ...
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by Azgremar - 2007-09-12
Emissions trading is a market-based approach to achieving environmental change. It allows those reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide, to use or trade the excess reducti...
