Showing posts with label futures contracts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label futures contracts. Show all posts
Sunday, November 22, 2015

The Limerick of Finance for 11/22/15

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Trading futures contracts is okay For companies with cash to pay Hedging the supply chain Avoid volatile pain Commodities always in pla...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

The Strange Confluence of Cash Flow, Real Estate, and Maybe Even Futures

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I am really curious about a whole bunch of financial concepts.  I get even more curious when one or more purveyors of proprietary strategie...
Monday, March 10, 2014

The Haiku of Finance for 03/10/14

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Hedging with futures Substitute for adverse move Not a pure play bet
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

First Consideration Of World Oil Price Components

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I got thinking about the components of the market price for oil after I finished my analysis of the US Navy's renewable energy policies...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

The Haiku of Finance for 07/10/12

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One more broker bust Peregrine hit with actions MF Global 2
Friday, March 09, 2012

MF Global Ripped Off Big Players Too

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Individual clients of bankrupt commodities brokerage MF Global can take some cold comfort in the news that big corporations also got their ...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

More Wind Out Of China's Sails

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Writing "sales" instead of "sails" in this post's title might have been a cute play on words, but I don't feel ...
Sunday, October 30, 2011

The Limerick of Finance for 10/30/11

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MF Global looks for forced sale Plunging share price has turned buyers pale This thing might unwind Some big firm wouldn't mind It ...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Barclays Learned Nothing From VZZ

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Never underestimate the stupidity of a large financial firm.  The crash and forced redemption of VZZ should have taught Barclays not to bui...
Thursday, July 07, 2011

Futures ETNs Have No Future With VZZ

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One of my previous employers, Barclays, had to learn the hard way that there are limits to financial innovations.  The firm had to redeem an...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Oil Price Speculation Confirmed By Sleepy Regulators

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Our Arab "friends" were on to something when they claimed hedge funds were making life difficult for them by gambling on oil price...