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    Good Books For Futures Trading

    A good book to start with is George Kleinmann: "Commodity Futures and Options".
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    Rice

    The problem with the CBOT rice contract is that it is extremely thinly traded (lousy fills). I know one trader in the US who does rice, but only with options. There are not many sites with info on the CBOT rice contract, but you can find some info on the sites of the USDA and NASS. Best...
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    Spreads value problem

    Spread has been in a long uptrend. Looks a bit toppy now. You might want to watch the negative divergences with Slow Stoch and RSI. From what I saw on the board today it is still going your way. Good trades, and best regards, Andreas
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    Spreads value problem

    It will never move from 5496 to 5497. As a matter of fact in this notation 5497 does not exist. The increments are in 1/4 cents (minimum move up or down $12.50), so in this notation you can only see 0, 2, 4, or 6 as last digit. A move from 5496 to 5506 is a move of 1 cent, so you are correct...
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    Spreads value problem

    A one cent move in this spread is $50. The spread moves, just like the two legs of it, in 1/4 cent increments. So in increments of $12.50. Bear in mind that in the 4 digit quote notation 8182= 818 1/4, 8184=818 1/2, 8186= 818 3/4, the next is 8190
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    End of Day commodities prices

    Adrian, A nice free site to download commodity futures prices in CSV (comma separated value) format is www.britefutures.com Regards, Andreas
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    George Fontanills' Options Course

    There are a lot of nice free option courses available. Here just two of them. http://www.direct-equity.net/forum/display_forum_topics.asp?ForumID=4 Happy New Year ! Andreas
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    Hang Seng China Enterprise Index

    peto, For more info about the Hang Seng index family, you might find this link interesting: http://www.hsi.com.hk/ Best regards, Andreas
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    March Sugar

    And then we saw the major sell-off in the past few sessions. I was referring to that in an earlier post, and that it typically occurs in January. Well it was a bit earlier this time. Merry Christmas to all !
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    Merry Xmas

    A Merry Chistmas and a Happy, Prosperous, and above all Healthy New Year to all of you !
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    The Big Boy!

    Wayno, Wasn't there something with copper also in the 80's ? Some scandal involving Sumitomo if I remember right. But I must say I do not recall the details.
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    The Big Boy!

    You are right on that one. There was more politics involved, than market forces at work, that's for sure. Best regards, Andreas
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    The Big Boy!

    Good example, the currency markets. Another nice one is when back in 1979/80 the Hunt brothers tried to corner the silver market. The price of silver went up to more than $50, and then collapsed in waves to present levels.
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    Libya wises up, realize that USA/UK Coalition are not to be messed with. Gives up WMD

    CKB, LOL, I am under the impression that you seem to really BELIEVE what you are writing ???!
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    Libya wises up, realize that USA/UK Coalition are not to be messed with. Gives up WMD

    You might find this article in Asia Times interesting: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EL19Ak01.html
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