Sentences with phrase «trading of its short positions»

The fund may engage in active and frequent trading of its short positions.

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MORE SHOES TO DROP: The stock slump led to a massive unwinding of a short position in products related to the VIX volatility index, as Credit Suisse and Nomura announced the shuttering of their respective exchange - traded notes that bet on lower volatility.

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.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission figures show that this segment of the investment and trading community are now holding the biggest short position in 10 - year and five - year U.S. Treasury futures since the data series began iTrading Commission figures show that this segment of the investment and trading community are now holding the biggest short position in 10 - year and five - year U.S. Treasury futures since the data series began itrading community are now holding the biggest short position in 10 - year and five - year U.S. Treasury futures since the data series began in 1995.

By bunching large buy orders in the last few minutes of trade, it also leaves traders who had shorted stocks earlier with no choice but to buy them back and cover their positions.

On Wednesday, I wrote about the abrupt ouster of biotech company chief Martin Shkreli, a former short seller who took the ultimate long position — starting Retrophin, a publicly traded drug manufacturer.

Heaps of trading platforms allow practice trades for long positions, but i'm having trouble finding any that provide a practice account that allows short selling penny stocks.

As a «sell» signal matures and becomes more confirmed by time and price, short selling of weak stocks also becomes part of the trading plan, but for now it is still too early to enter new short positions for momentum swing trading.

Tesla has an insider trading policy that prohibits all of our directors, officers and employees from, among other things, engaging in short sales, hedging of stock ownership positions, and transactions involving derivative securities relating to Tesla's common stock.

In «neutral» mode, we can be positioned either long or short, but position size of all new trade entries will be lighter than usual, in order to reduce risk.

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.

The underwriters and their respective affiliates may also communicate independent investment recommendations, market color or trading ideas and / or publish or express independent research views in respect of such assets, securities or instruments and may at any time hold, or recommend to clients that they should acquire, long and / or short positions in such assets, securities and instruments.

Swiss bank Vontobel said it will start trading Switzerland's first two mini futures to short bitcoin on Friday, giving investors a tool to bet against the value of the volatile cryptocurrency or to hedge bitcoin positions.

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).

In fact one could even make the argument that the best trade for that type of situation is a long gold / short gold stocks position, but we digress.

Although it is not a short position or inverse ETF, our ETF trading strategy enabled us to recently buy TMF because it is a fixed - income ETF that is not necessarily correlated to the direction of the stock market.

We still have two short positions in our model ETF trading portfolio, but the majority weighting of our swing trades (combining ETF and individual stock positions) remains on the long side of the market.

Therefore, we're not in a hurry to enter multiple new positions (either long or short) ahead of the holidays, but will still consider new stock and / or ETF trade entries (possibly on the short side and / or inverse ETFs) with reduced share size if an ideal trade setup with a firmly positive reward - risk ratio presents itself.

Too be sure, whenever the COT report shows an extreme level in the bullion bank short position in gold and futures, offset by an extreme long position held by the hedge funds, the criminal banks implement a «COT stop - loss hedge fund long liquidation» algorithm which sets off the stop - losses set by the hedge funds and causes the now - familiar «waterfall» chart patterns that result from heavy bank manipulation of Comex trading.

Note: To trade out of a spread position, it is recommended to first close the short leg before closing the long leg to avoid the high margin charge of the naked short option position.

I liquidated my gold position for a small loss on Wednesday when spot gold traded above $ 1325 and I remain short the S+P with a combination of option positions.

March is always a difficult month for trading YEN as the JAPANESE CALENDAR YEAR ENDS MARCH 31 so repatriation of corporate profits is always a wildcard for any short YEN positions.

Bond trading can be short, or long term and allows bond traders to take a position on future interest rate movements while leveraging the security and stability of government treasuries.

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).

In a losing trade, the trader starts thinking «add more to a losing position» instead of «I need to cut my loss short».

Swing trading is a fundamental type of short - term market speculation where positions are held for longer than a single day.

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.

As I have mentioned previously I simply run a nightly scan of Long and Short stock candidates hitting 52 week highs / lows and keep note of these stocks and over the course of the coming days and weeks I look for which stocks keep hitting the parameters of my scans before taking a closer look at the chart, once I see there is a clean smooth trend be it going up or down I then calculate from that afternoons closing price and where the stop loss would need to be positioned on the first day the trade is placed in line with my risk management and then simply wait for the open the following day to open the trade then my system does the rest.

I just wanted to toss this suggestion your way and the motivation is partly selfish, but given the decline in gold the last 3 - 4 days (I actually exited all my long positions around 1500 - 1505 last Friday based on the breach of the technical support level at 1525 - 1535 and am now short in my trading account from that same level) I'd be interested to get your qualitative thoughts and maybe an update on your refined quantitative model with negative real interest rates and where it says gold should be trading.

The website appears to encourage short term views and changing positions a lot and doesn't seem to simulate the full trading costs (including fees) that would eat away at the gains of a individual investor that trades that much.

Under Regulation T, it is mandatory for short trades that 150 % of the value of the position at the time the short is created be held in a margin account.

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.

We have been partially invested in trading accounts, in a bearish position with 1/3 of our position profitably in bond ETFs and another 1/3 in an inverse (short) ETF, as I predicted last week.

The premium collected from the short sale can help cover the cost of the long position, making the pairs trade inexpensive to put on.

Ok, for anybody short, the fakey pattern was a clear signal to get out of shorts and reverse to longs and for those traders not in a trade, this was a clear signal to take a long position.

The blue area around the gold curve is the targeted range of impact from overlaying Swan's short - term premium collection trades over the hedged equity position.

Swing Trading / Position Trading: This style of trading involves taking a short to mid-term view on the market and traders who swing trade will be in a trade anywhere from a few hours to several days orTrading / Position Trading: This style of trading involves taking a short to mid-term view on the market and traders who swing trade will be in a trade anywhere from a few hours to several days orTrading: This style of trading involves taking a short to mid-term view on the market and traders who swing trade will be in a trade anywhere from a few hours to several days ortrading involves taking a short to mid-term view on the market and traders who swing trade will be in a trade anywhere from a few hours to several days or weeks.

Positions are typically only held for short periods of time, allowing less chance for reversals to knock out your trading position.

Because the position is typically held for a short period of time, there is also less knowledge of the Forex market, and trading strategies needed, as long - term analysis not as useful.

Investing in commodities indices that are constructed using long or short positions in futures on physical commodities whose value is determined based on the price of the underlying physical commodity plus yield and that trade on public markets that provide adequate liquidity and transparency, with negligible costs and no storage deterioration risk, offer a practical method to gaining commodities exposure and can provide a means for market participants to access the five components of the returns of the asset class.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

While they only hold a market position a short period of time, the frequency of their trades is higher than the average trader.

Scalper A speculator on the trading floor of an exchange who buys and sells rapidly, with small profits or losses, holding his positions for only a short time during a trading session.

I took a position on a fakey on the EURJPY in this video, the weekly chart was showing a trading range, the fakey was a short position near the top of the range on the daily chart.

Shares of stock offset a short position in the same stock, so the purchase, which occurs on the trade date, can trigger built - in gain even though loss won't be reported until the short position is actually closed, on the settlement date.

The grey - blue area around the gold curve is the anticipated range of impact from overlaying Swan's short - term premium collection trades over the hedged equity position.

With the Dime Buyback Program, options traders can buy - to - close short options positions with a premium of 10 cents or less commission free on qualified trades!

Intraday trading involves taking long or short positions in the securities and squaring - off the positions before the end of the trading day.

stop orders are generally used to protect a profit or to prevent further loss if the price of a security moves against you; they can also be used to establish a position in a security if it reaches a certain price threshold or to close a short position; not all securities or trading sessions (pre - and post-market) are eligible for stop orders