Sentences with phrase «of speculative positions»

You're not loading up on a lot of speculative positions or overloading on REITs; instead this is income from a lot of solid blue - chip companies that you can count on to keep increasing their dividends.

In France, the unravelling of speculative positions in the stock market in 1882 led the Banque de France to provide secured loans to the Paris Bourse.

Since September 21, more than 80 % of speculative positions on bitcoin have been long... Analysts have also noted a major change in market confidence over the past two weeks, as investors looked past a series of negative news headlines involving bitcoin.

Not exact matches

Chilton added large investment banks may also be using this ownership of commodities, and the storage and delivery mechanisms to avoid certain regulations, like the Volcker Rule and speculative position limits.

[T] he dramatic increase in leveraged bond positions by both US hedge funds and mundane money managers set in motion self - reinforcing liquidations once uncertainty over emerging markets including Turkey, Venezuela, Mexico, and Malaysia - all of which experienced sharp capital flow volatility - put pressure on speculative positions.

Therefore we expect the decline in interest rate futures, specifically the 10 - year Treasury Notes and 30 - year Treasury Bonds to be a temporary effect of speculative exuberance, and for interest rate futures to rally through the end of the month as the heavily short speculators are forced out of their positions.

That means that a significantly invested position in stocks is out of the question for us, regardless of any speculative prospect for a short term bounce.

If I was trading a lot of highly speculative positions then this might not be a huge milestone.

Over the past several years we have seen a few amazing moves in futures positioning in a number of commodities, such as e.g. in crude oil, where the by far largest speculative long positions in history have been amassed.

That said, anybody attempting to speculate on the short side of coffee should respect the fact that the Arabica futures traded on the ICE exchange in New York currently have the largest speculative short position seen in over a year.

Financial services group Nordea, which banned its employees from engaging in off - the - clock cryptocurrency trading earlier this year, said at the time that financial institutions often «restrict the personal account dealing of staff to prevent them taking positions in speculative investments, or which might expose them to a risk of financial loss and therefore impact their financial standing.»

Of course, JPMorgan isn't likely to pile up large speculative derivatives positions any time soon.

According to Kitco News, citing Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data, money managers increased their speculative long positions in gold futures by 34,928 contracts to a total of 183,080 for the week ended March 27.

As an aside, the biggest ever speculative net short position in silver futures (of more than 10,000 contracts) was recorded in late July 1997 — with silver trading at $ 4.43, then the low of the year.

It's a similar story with silver, in that the price decline of the past two months has been accompanied by almost no reduction in the total speculative net - long position in Comex silver futures.

This was such an unusual and unexpected development that we felt we had to mention it in these pages (note: as of last week the speculative position has returned to net long 6,186 contracts, which is still very subdued exposure for this group of traders).

Even any speculative positions investors contemplate would be best executed on a short - term market decline that clears the current overbought condition of the market.

Note that what I refer to as the total speculative net position takes into account the net positions of large speculators (non-commercials) and small traders (the «non-reportables») and is the inverse of the commercial net position.

As noted in the earlier post, what I refer to as the total speculative net position takes into account the net positions of large speculators (non-commercials) and small traders (the «non-reportables») and is the inverse of the commercial net position.

In May of this year the total speculative net - short position in Canadian dollar (C$) futures hit an all - time high, meaning that the C$'s sentiment situation was more bullish than it had ever been.

The following weekly chart shows that the total speculative net - long position in Comex gold futures hit an all - time high in July of 2016 (the chart only covers the past three years, but I can assure you that it was an all - time high).

The most recent Commitments of Traders (COT) speculative positions (chart below) suggest otherwise, and a comeuppance ahead for dollar bulls.

The blue bars in the middle sections of the charts that follow indicate the commercial net position, so the inverse of each of these bars is considered to be the total speculative net position.

More recently, the relatively small size of the speculative net - long position in early - July of this year paved the way for a tradable rebound in the price, but by early - September the speculative net - long position had again risen to a relatively high level.

We have no idea what actually motivates the recent speculative position, particularly in view of the fact that other industrial and precious metals (silver is both) are generally getting a lot more love.

Finally, the CFTC's Commitments of Traders (COT) report shows that large speculative traders are holding a record net long position in the euro, a polar opposite in sentiment toward currency relative to last year.

Subdued investor activity has been apparent in speculative positioning data indicated by the CFTC Commitment of Traders Report as well as gold ETF flows.

When heavy «risk - on» positions established in recent months are forced to squeeze out through a narrow exit, large price adjustments may be needed, since investors who are less tolerant of speculative risk seem unlikely to respond with the requisite demand until improved valuations provide a sufficient incentive.

In the Strategic Growth Fund, that puts us in the position of being fully hedged, but with a small speculative call option position that I would expect to increase toward 2 % of assets if the market pulls back somewhat further without a significant deterioration in market internals.

However, the Australian dollar remains one of the few currencies in which market participants continue to have long speculative positions relative to the US dollar (Graph 24); in the case of the Japanese yen, Canadian dollar and Swiss franc, speculative positions against the US dollar are short.

While market sentiment towards the Australian dollar remains positive, there has been a scaling back of speculative long positions in Australian dollar futures, albeit from high levels.

We really hope global demand growth expectations materialize, otherwise we will once again be out of balance at a time when speculative long positions are at all - time highs.

If this bull market has a long future ahead of it — which I strongly doubt, but which we do have to allow — there will likely be several appropriate points to establish a speculative position at controlled risk (speculative, because my view is that the long - term investment merit of stocks is quite weak here).

When the divine meaning of the event is made to depend upon views of Jesus» divinity and when the presence of Christ in the church is made to depend upon a belief in the Resurrection, we cut the solid ground out from under the whole Christian position; we invest the purely speculative with an importance it does not possess and rely on it to perform a function it can not perform; and we open the door to discord and division.

By a strange misunderstanding, a so - called speculative dogmatic, which certainly - has suspicious dealings with philosophy, has entertained the notion that it is able to comprehend this definition of sin as a position.

Dean suggests that American religious empiricists may have lapsed into objectivism at times, but a third position of speculative and radically empirical realism, a religious historicism, holds up well in the current forces of deconstructionism, neopragmatism, and language philosophy.

Speculative investors have built big positions in sugar futures, with hedge funds owning one - quarter or about $ US5.35 billion ($ 7.3 billion) of the New York sugar - futures market.

«[There are] hundreds of positions funded for just six months and tens of millions in potentially speculative revenues.»

The letter above is an example of «persuasive writing», and is intended to emphasize one point of view and to make speculative claims in favor of the author's position.

If you're lucky, some of the ads will be related to the position you have in mind, which will give you a few example job descriptions to help you structure your speculative CV.

Peter says «I don't know,» but in truth we all don't know: dietary science is complex and all of our positions are somewhat speculative.

The Volcker Rule prohibits banks from taking speculative positions on bonds or other securities — thereby preventing banks from purchasing large blocks of securities and holding them until a buyer is located.

Also on the list are speculative non-dividend paying stocks and people, those who use margin or debt to leverage their positions, and those who advertise their willingness to purchase certain securities: again, well outside the realm of the ordinary investor trying to create a little tax - free dividend or interest income.

Position Limit The maximum number of speculative futures contracts one can hold as determined by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and / or the exchange upon which the contract is traded.

Among the main risks affecting the funds, ProShares warns of inherent volatility associated with futures markets as well as the risk of holding speculative short positions in the portfolios, which could expose the investor to losses.

For example, participants who wish to take a speculative or hedging position in the S&P 500 futures contract but can not risk the exposure of that size contract ($ 250 x the S&P 500) can instead use the E-mini S&P 500 futures contract to gain that exposure ($ 50 x the S&P 500 Index).

It's a very small position and will remain small given the speculative nature of the business, but Smart Parking looks to have turned a corner.

Speculative investors mainly added dollar shorts against the yen resulting in an increase in net long JPY positions to 39 percent of open interest.

The policy under which all futures positions owned or controlled by one trader or a group of traders are combined to determine reportable positions and speculative limits.

Put buyers — those who hold a «long» — put are either speculative buyers looking for leverage or «insurance» buyers who want to protect their long positions in a stock for the period of time covered by the option.