End of an Era
On Feb. 4, the eve of its quarterly earnings report, CME Group made an announcement that was both a shock...
Futures Magazine – Fed expectations have been clear, so why the selloff?
What is going on in the markets? Despite the positive employment number, the S&P 500 took a drop. Fed expectations...
New day for Newedge, or should we say SocGen?
When Newedge was formed in 2008 it created the largest independent non-bank futures broker by combining futures commission merchants (FCMs)...
Best/worst performing months for the S&P 500
Traders have always tried to find seasonal tendencies in market performance to be able to better time the market. We...
Dow Hits 17,000
The Dow Jones Industrial Average breached 17,000 for the first time in its history today. The index has seen exponential...
More bull less alts: Is history repeating?
It has been a strange environment for investing since the markets imploded in 2008. That was the year the credit...
You’re outta here!
The National Futures Association (NFA) announced today that it has barred Connecticut futures commission merchant Vision Financial Markets LLC and...
Vision settles NFA action over supervision of ACE/Yu-Dee Chang
Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) Vision Financial Markets announced, in a letter dated June 12, that it had reached settlement with...
We must do better: CFTC’s O’Malia
Scott O’Malia, commissioner with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), told market participants the agency must do a better job...
The Show Must Go On
The show must go on (via Futures Magazine) By Daniel P. Collins January 19, 2014 • Reprints As they say...
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