Sentences with phrase «speculative positions»

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

I wonder who else relies on short - term finance to hold speculative positions today?

In the Canadian dollar's defense, there is still modest scope for optimism: Energy prices have room to potentially nudge higher (although much of the good news is already in the oil price), fears of a border adjustment tax have faded alongside expectations for broad - based tax reform, and net speculative positioning in the Canadian dollar is already particularly bearish (see the chart below).

Consider the much smaller net speculative position at the market top near $ 50 in April 2011 compared to the peaks seen since early 2016 and especially last year.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will unveil its new rule on speculative position limits in the next six weeks, after its previous effort was rejected in an embarrassing court ruling, says commissioner Scott O'Malia.

There might still be some short - term tremors on the day the taper is announced and shortly after as a few traders try to make money on speculative positions.

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.

For positions involving options on E-Mini Standard and Poor's 500 Stock Price Index futures, this rule is superseded by the option speculative position limit rule.

Despite the rebound in gold prices in recent weeks, net speculative positions on Comex have remained very lean.

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.

Relative speculative positioning between gold and silver on Comex similarly shows a stronger build in investor positions in silver than gold, at least during the first half of the year.

Loco London silver holdings could potentially be relatively more robust than what Comex speculative positions imply.

We suspect that there must have been huge inflows into CTAs given how much larger reportable speculative positions in many commodity futures have become in recent years.

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.

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

Illiquidity is a very unpleasant thing when you've got an inappropriately speculative position and you're under pressure to close it out.

This fund is most appropriate for investors who have bearish views on the performance of U.S. TIPS in the short - term and want to obtain speculative positions that bet on the price decline of TIPS.

Speculative positions show no belief in JPY intervention The latest IMM data cover the week from 17 to 24 November.

For positions involving options on E-Mini Standard and Poor's MidCap 400 Stock Price Index futures, this rule is superseded by the option speculative position limit rule.

For purposes of this rule, an E-Mini S&P SmallCap 600 Index contract shall be deemed equivalent to one fifth (0.20) of a S&P SmallCap 600 Index futures contract.For positions involving options on E-Mini S&P SmallCap 600 Index futures, this rule is superseded by the option speculative positions limit rule.

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.

Typically highly speculative positions have large betas and there will be larger gains as well as larger losses to balance that out.

[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.

As the exchange rate appreciated through to late November, speculative positioning in Australian dollar futures on the Chicago Futures Exchange rose to record levels.

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.

One result from increased production could be a series of weekly inventory builds from the Department of Energy, and we could see a massive unwinding in speculative positioning, currently near the highest levels since 2006.

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).

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

Even in that event, however, I believe that a better opportunity to accept a speculative position at controlled risk would be at a point where the absence of overextended conditions (overvalued, overbought, overbullish) is coupled with the presence of favorable trend - following measures.

The parties involved in the contract are generally interested in hedging a foreign exchange position or taking a speculative position.

Traders will follow fundamental and technical analysis for placing a speculative position.

For positions involving options on Standard and Poor's 500 Stock Price Index futures, this rule is superseded by the option speculative position limit rule.

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.

Given the predictions back then — of an imminent bubble burst and a housing market crash — hedging on real estate losses would've been a smart, speculative position.

He added: «When a businessman takes a speculative position in compromising his wife's claims, why should the court subsequently relieve him of the consequences of his speculation by rewriting the bargain at his behest?

You can take a speculative position without touching bitcoin itself, which helps make it more attractive to all sorts of folks.

«So you can take a speculative position without touching bitcoin itself, which helps make it more attractive to all sorts of folks.»