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Started 2 days, 23 hours ago (2008-10-08 08:47:00)
by silenus
I'm sure they vary in length, but what's the average? It would please me greatly to think that some large number of speculators are going tits-up due to the dive in oil prices, because they speculated last year and helped drive the prices up.
Started 2 weeks, 1 day ago (2008-09-25 22:11:00)
by ronbl
Recs: 0 gold futures contracts are being settled in cash only at the COMEX, "Reports have come from a London source that gold futures contracts are being settled in cash only at the COMEX, rather than with physical gold metal. That leaves would-be buyers without the metal they wish to take on delivery under contract. IS THAT NOT A DEFAULT?" http://www.kitco.com/ind/...
Started 3 weeks, 6 days ago (2008-09-13 18:09:00)
by yahearme
Recs: 0 Oil investors Pulled $39 Billion in Futures Contracts Oil Investors Pulled $39 Billion in Futures Contracts (Update2) By Daniel Whitten Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Commodity index investors, blamed for record oil prices, sold $39 billion worth of oil futures between a July record and Sept. 2, causing crude to plunge, according to a report released ...
Started 1 month ago (2008-09-10 21:35:00)
by multis_dog
The SELL OFF of OIL futures contracts($40 billion since July15) from speculators has driven down the price of fuel....so ...one PRIMARY way to reduce the cost of fuel OBVIOUSLY is REGULATION...REGULATION of oil speculators.
Started 2 months ago (2008-08-10 13:28:00)
by jack2k1
NATIONAL COMMODITY & DERIVATIVES EXCHANGE LIMITED Launching Date : August 11, 2008 Subject : Launch of futures Contracts – Coriander All the Trading persons are hereby informed that the Exchange has launch futures contracts in Coriander. Contracts expiring in the months of October 2008, December 2008 and April 2009 would be available for trading on August 11, 2008. ...
Started 1 month, 3 weeks ago (2008-08-21 05:59:00)
by art27
".....more silver has been "sold" in paper promises than the amount of silver that actually exists in the world! " "Our markets are affected by paper silver futures contracts, and very few people ever attempt to take delivery of that silver; they buy it on leverage, for the investment returns, not for real silver. So, some people can sell 'silver promises' to excess, and never deliver, ...
Started 1 month, 3 weeks ago (2008-08-17 23:24:33)
by News Feed
Many people agree there is a shortage of retail investor silver, but they get confused by the lower price. They think a lower price means more silver must have come into the market. That is not how our markets work. Our markets are affected by paper silver futures contracts, and very few people ever attempt to take delivery of that silver, they buy it on leverage, for the investment returns, ...
Started 2 days, 16 hours ago (2008-10-08 16:19:00)
by butler1850
Quote: Originally Posted by silenus I've got all that. What I was hoping for was someone in the business stating "most contracts are for 1 year," or something like that. I'm hoping that some people are taking a bath on their oil futures because they got greedy. One thing to keep in mind is that if you ...
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2008-10-03 01:59:00)
by zeno451
Recs: 0 Ted Butler TED BUTLER COMMENTARY September 29, 2008 Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss? (This essay was written by silver analyst Theodore Butler, an independent consultant. Investment Rarities does not necessarily endorse these views, which may or may not prove to be correct.) Its hard to imagine now, but there were times when I worried...
Started 3 days, 8 hours ago (2008-10-08 00:00:00)
by SilverCaper
Russia and Brazil crumble as commodity prices crash The entire complex of commodities and emerging market stocks, bonds, and currencies is now in free-fall as the economic crisis spreads like brushfire, threatening to draw every corner of the globe into the vortex of recession. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Last Updated: 1:51PM BST 07 Oct 2008 Comments 21 | Comment on this article...
