Death by Comet
By Staff Writer"You never know what is enough, until you know how much is more than enough" -William Blake Someone once told me Myron Scholes said the folks at Long-Term Capital Management thought they had their risk buttoned down. In their minds, they were walking down Madison Avenue, eyes trained on the...
September 27, 2004
William Jennings Bryan Reborn: Bimetallism TodayJUPITER, Fla. (HedgeWorld.com)-Recent allegations of long-term manipulation of the price of gold and its derivatives bear striking similarities to somewhat older theories about manipulation of the price of silver and its derivatives, and both sets of theorists have noticed. James Cook publishes the James Cook Market Update and maintains a...
September 17, 2004
Three Years after 9/11: Keeping a Cool Head in Tricky MarketsNEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)--As if trading is not hard enough, the terrorist attacks of 2001added another dimension of uncertainty to the environment. In the three years since that shock, the geopolitical picture has been complicated by war and fear of continuing violence. Markets have vacillated, nobody has firm ideas on how...
September 15, 2004
NAIC Adopts Market Conduct ModelByAnchorage, AlaskaState insurance commissioners adopted by a 31-20 vote a market conduct model law designed to streamline the market conduct process, despite reservations voiced by ...
September 10, 2004
NQLX to Suspend Trading in All Security Futures ProductsNEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)--NQLX LLC, the single-stock futures exchange that is a wholly owned company of Euronext.liffe, announced that it would suspend trading in all of its security futures products following the expiry of the December 2004 contracts on Dec. 17. NQLX has struggled for some time. In December 2003, it...
September 01, 2004
An Advisor to AdvisorsRon Carson spends about 85% of his work time managing his financial planning firm, Carson Wealth Management, in Omaha, Nebraska. The rest of his time...
September 01, 2004
The Ten ModelsThese are the 10 mechanical models used at Abraham Bedick Capital to determine whether to be in the market or to go to cash. Only...
September 01, 2004
My Way of GrowingDo you proclaim yourself to be a professional investment advisor? Are you proud of your investing acumen? Let's face it, investing is a difficult task...