Sentences with phrase «short contract positions»

In the interim, I worked several short contract positions with different temp agencies to bring in income and pay the bills.

Not exact matches

Across the six major contracts, portfolio managers hold almost 14 long positions for every short one, compared with a ratio of less than 12:1 back on Jan. 23.

Opportunity: Universities and colleges are increasingly relying on sessional instructors working short - term contracts to do frontline teaching, so securing a permanent position isn't easy.

While some traders might have guarded their positions using contracts on the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX), which trades inversely to the S&P 500 roughly 80 % of the time, others have elected to short exchange - traded funds with broad market exposure.

The net position — contracts to buy a foreign currency at a future date minus contracts to sell the same currency — is often watched by market analysts, who interpret its movements as a proxy for speculators» changing views of the short - term direction of exchange rates.

The CFTC's Commitment of Traders Report as of 4/24 showed the large funds cutting 11.5 k longs and adding 14.9 k shorts to slash the net fund long position to 136k contracts.

While this is certainly not bullish for sentiment, this is a relatively and historically light Net Fund Long Position, and gross shorts at 89k contracts are still somewhat elevated.

Overnight positions in short Contract Options are subject to a carrying cost.

The CFTC's Commitment of Traders Report as of 4/17 showed the large funds adding 2.8 k contracts, and cutting 4.8 k contracts of shorts to increase their long position to 163k contracts.

This is a relatively and historically light Net Fund Long Position, and gross shorts at 74k contracts are still somewhat elevated.

Accordingly, the Strategic Growth Fund is now back to a fully - hedged investment stance - meaning that the Fund continues to be fully invested in a broadly diversified group of stocks that appear to have some combination of favorable valuation and favorable market action, while at the same time, the Fund carries an offsetting short position of equal size in the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 indices (using option combinations that mimic short futures contracts) intended to mute the impact of broad market fluctuations on the Fund.

Specifically, they compute daily excess returns (accruing return on cash for open short positions) for the two front contracts («front - month» and «back - month») up through expiration.

Silver's net - long position for managed - money accounts fell to 18, 369 contracts, with the drop coming from the cutting of 1,468 gross longs and adding 137 gross shorts.

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.

The common element is that any long position taken in a specific equity is offset by a short position in either a merger partner (risk arbitrage), an «overvalued» member of the same sector (long / short paired trading), a convertible bond (convertible arbitrage), a futures contract (index arbitrage) or an option contract (volatility arbitrage).

For the dealer that hedges the net long position with short futures contracts, everything will be a wash.

With hedging, the dealer offsets this position by shorting 20 gold futures contracts for 100 oz gold each, for a total short of 2,000 oz.

It makes short and long positions in various markets, such as fixed income, currency futures contracts, equity index and commodities.

Portfolio insurance products were algorithm - based products created to protect investors from falling markets by selling «ever - increasing numbers of futures contracts,» the New York Times explained in 2012, because «the short position in futures contracts would then offset the losses caused by falls in the stocks they owned.»

Pros: balance sheet friendly, highly liquid, supports long and short positions Cons: have to roll futures positions, can not precisely target duration exposure as not all major tenors are covered by futures contracts.

The numbers presented above would suggest that both gold and silver will not be set - up to embark on a major move higher until the both the total open interest in gold and the net short position in gold of the commercials banks declines by another 60 - 70k contracts.

According to the CFTC, hedge funds reduced long positions by 978 contracts and increased short futures positions by 1,340 contracts.

The managers of these securities buy and sell VIX futures daily to maintain a constant maturity of one month (long for VXX and short for XIV), continually rolling partial positions from the nearest term contract to the next nearest.

Wenger did not play the ex-players at their preferred / best positions and did not extend their contracts after 3 years, hence they left and he has to reassemble the team in short time.

His final Chelsea contract saw him earn just # 50,000 per week, as reported by the Daily Mail, but, as his next club are not required to pay a transfer fee, he is in a strong position to demand a significant pay - rise, especially on a short - term deal.

After two years, however, the reality of short - term contracts kicked in and Pullin moved to take up another post-doc position in Utah, followed by a tenure - track position at Pennsylvania State University.

Fearing they would soon be forced to offer many open - ended positions, universities and research organizations took drastic preventive action that made it difficult for young scientists to extend short - term contracts beyond even 3 years, Trautmann says.

There are so many employees on short - term contracts today that «given the number of [civil service] positions available, very few of them will be able to have jobs» within academia in France, Bossis says.

Besides, he was longing for a position that didn?t involve the precariousness of short - term contracts.

It backfired, spreading havoc in the careers of young scientists, who not only gained little access to the new stable positions promised by the law but also soon found it nearly impossible to renew their short - term contracts.

The report calls for a battery of government and institutional measures to better support scientists on short - term contracts, including gathering comprehensive data on their working conditions, helping them devise career plans, creating more academic jobs, and encouraging them to apply for permanent positions.

The need for some sort of effort to reform the academic system in France became apparent in 2003, when the government announced a reduction in the number of permanent research positions and the creation of more short - term contracts.

Postdoctoral positions are few in France, and most short - term contract positions are as an Attaché Temporaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche (ATER), the terms of which are not attractive for researchers.

Civil servant salaries are given to those in permanent positions, while overheads are provided for those on short - term contracts.

This means that more and more people work as postdocs for longer periods of time, on a series of short - term contracts, often in a number of different countries, before they will — or will not — transition to a group leader position.

How can anyone reasonably argue that the system is overwhelmed by people fighting to get a job where you study for 4 years, earn almost nothing during the study period, and finally become professionally qualified only to find yourself in the position of being unemployed, or employed only on short - term contracts?

Even as the number of short - term contract researchers moving into potentially permanent posts declines, Legge 133/08 is also likely to reduce the number of contract positions available in Italy.

Universities should create more academic positions, use 5 - year fixed - term contracts instead of shorter contracts, and put young researchers into permanent positions.

Bernadette Arnoux, who is responsible for the Young Researchers Programme at the ANR, adds that these short - term employment contracts should have little if any impact on the overall number of permanent positions that are to become available in the future in France.

The contracts will be short - term until the end of the program (30/11/2015), four (4) month duration for the postdoctoral scientist position and six (6) month duration for the research assistant position.

Many graduate teachers in Victoria have short - term contracts, but want permanent positions.

Managed futures as an asset class are historically non-correlated to the stock and bond markets over long term periods and encompass a wide range of trading strategies (generally taking long / short positions in futures contracts on equity indices, commodities, financials and currencies).

The funds seek to hedge against the negative impact of currency risk by taking short positions in currency forward contracts.

A person owning or controlling more than 10,000 contracts net long or net short in all contract months combined shall provide, in a timely fashion, upon request by the Exchange, information regarding the nature of the position, trading strategy, and hedging information if applicable.

In some fields, you might find temporary or contract positions for short - term or part - time jobs, which tend to be relatively common in troubled times because employers are reluctant to commit to permanent hiring.

This can be a tough task as the job market continues to shift from full - time positions to short - term contracts or gigs.

In some fields, short - term contract positions or even volunteer jobs can provide a foot in the door.

A futures trader can initiate a long or short futures position depending on the anticipated move by the speculator on the price of the trading futures contract.

It is also possible to take on a short position and speculate on the price of the underlying futures contract going down and offsetting the position by buying back the exact same contract on the same exchange with the hope of making a profit on the change in price.

For example, if you were long in a futures contract, you could go short in the same type of contract to offset your position.