An Australian mining company has just announced the discovery of an enormous 400-carat diamond, and its shares are going wild. The find – the biggest diamond ever unearthed in Angola – was announced by the Perth-based Lucapa Diamond Company...
There are two broad developments in speculative positioning in the Commitment of Traders report in the week ending February 9. First, the market turbulence saw speculators reduce exposure. Of the 16 gross positions we track, 11 were reducing positions by liquidating longs or covering shorts...
In the high-speed world of high-frequency trading change comes quick, too, as Wall Street struggles to find seasoned execs to lead the firms’ efforts...
There are so many trading topics we want to write about here on Tradeciety, but often these don’t offer enough material to justify a whole article...
On 28 January, Carly McWilliams fought in a London employment tribunal against dismissal over investigations into forex trading and benchmarks. After working 14 years on the spot trading desk, McWilliams was suspended while on maternity leave, and later fired for ‘gross misconduct’...
It's been an ugly stock market for most investors. But famed inventor and investor Elon Musk is having an exceptionally bad year - not just on one investment - but two. Musk's holdings in solar panel installer SolarCity (SCTY) and electric car maker Tesla (TSLA) are down a staggering $3...
As if being nominated for the film industry's biggest prize wasn't enough, Academy Award nominees in five categories will receive the annual "Oscar swag bag" — a goodie-bag worth upward of $220,000. Los Angeles-based Distinctive Assets puts together the bags independent of the Oscars...
As a professional trader it's important to know when and what instrument to trade, as well as knowing when not to trade and "sit on your hands". Preservation of capital during times of low profit probability is essential for a long term trading career...
A British entrepreneur said he is raking in the cash by selling 20-ounce jars of British countryside air to pollution-stricken Chinese customers for $155 each...
They say we get the partners we deserve. Well, here is what we think you deserve. A partner who will keep his word. Someone who is able to offer solutions that meet your requirements. With a product that delivers real results and reward that pays off...
China’s foreign-exchange reserves shrank to the smallest since 2012, indicating that the central bank sold dollars as the yuan’s retreat to a five-year low exacerbated depreciation pressure. The world’s largest currency hoard declined by $99.5 billion in January to $3...
During the Thursday-night Democratic presidential debate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confronted her chief primary rival over his constant criticism of her ties to Wall Street. Sen...
Test your trading skills in the upcoming February live trading competition. If you have the highest return when competition ends, you will be...
In a year when titans Bill Ackman and David Einhorn each lost more than 20 percent for their investors, David Swensen’s bet on a little-known Boston hedge fund kept making him money. Nancy Zimmerman’s Bracebridge Capital has gone from $5.8 billion in assets four years ago to $10...
Currency costs are repeatedly on the shift, but you will find certain trading hours that seems to be more gainful for the traders. It is significant for success to recognize when these times occur and what are the things that might make the market active...
We keep seeing this over and over again .... most recently with Delta, then Joker yesterday. A Signal does very well for a number of weeks of varying length then starts making a lot of money from their followers, in the case of Joker, in excess of $40k a month...
Four years ago, Manhattan therapist Clay Cockrell met a patient with an unusual problem. The 21-year-old college senior said he’d recently received traumatic news. “He seemed scared,” Cockrell recalls. “Like, really scared...
For several years, FRED has included the FOMC’s projections for the main economic aggregates. FRED recently added data on projections for the federal funds rate, one of the main policy targets considered by the FOMC...
Good news for Ferrari owners wasn't quite so good for the automaker's shareholders. On Tuesday, the newly public Ferrari said in its fourth-quarter earnings release that it shipped 7,664 cars last year, and plans to ship around 7,900 in 2016...
