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Futures traders help wanted
Can you please refine these futures terms to reflect the truth, as you know it, from actively trading the futures markets?
Trading terms
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====Asset,==== capital used to create income. "Assets put cash in your pocket, liabilities take cash out of your pocket."
B
====Bear market==== an extended downward movement in securities prices.
C
====Capital (Futures)==== trading capital, are assets used to create income.
====Commodity markets==== are not modern futures markets.
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====Drawdowns==== unrealized losses. Diversification between uncorrelated securities may moderate unrealized losses.
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====Fundamental analysis==== the intrinsic value of the underlying commodity, rather than technical analysis based on relative prices.
Futures contract
====Futures exchange==== This article needs cleanup.
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====Hedger==== Should be merged with hedge (finance).
====Hedging==== does not include futures. Needs futures added
History of commodity markets
Talk:History of commodity markets
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====Investment==== In Investing to purchase and sell securities for any reason.
J
====Joseph (Hebrew Bible)==== Joseph, son of Jacob, biblical commodities trader who cornered the grain market.
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====Liability==== what you owe. "Assets put cash in your pocket, liabilities take cash out of your pocket."
====Jesse Lauriston Livermore==== is unique in that he has left traders a working philosophy for trading securities that emphasizes holding for the long term, increasing the size of your position as it goes in your direction and not trying to hold out for that last penny.
Talk:Jesse Lauriston Livermore
====Long (futures)==== is to buy a futures contract before selling it.
====Loss (futures)==== reduction in trading capital.
M
====Margin (futures)==== the value of a contract at time of trading should be zero, its price constantly fluctuates
Margin, margin refers to the cash collateral deposited by a party to contract, with a trader or exchange, to ensure against default. i.e., good faith deposit.
Margin account, is the amount of funds that must be kept in an account to initiate or hold a contract overnight.
Margin call, a margin call is a demand by a broker for additional funds, additional money or securities, because of an adverse price movement in one or more of your held securities to bring a margin account up to the minimum maintenance margin.
Initial margin, is the amount of cash collateral originally required by the clearing house and one's brokerage to be deposited by a party to contract, with a trader or exchange, to ensure against default. i.e., good faith deposit.
Maintenance margin, is the minimum amount of equity that must be maintained in a margin account to ensure against default, i.e. minimum good faith deposit. The amount is figured daily using a secret complex formula including volatility and other factors
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====Open interest (futures)==== is the number of "open" contracts of derivatives like futures and options that have a time limit after which they expire. Open interest in a derivative is the sum of all contracts that have not expired, been exercised or physically delivered.
Open interest should be merged with above.
====Ownership equity==== In Futures, owners interest in an asset, after all liabilities are paid.
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====Position==== In investing, the amount of the security under control or in Inventory.
====Talk:Position trader==== is one who takes a long term stance in the futures market.
Talk:Position trader (futures)
====Purchase==== to gain control of an asset in exchange for a valuable consideration.
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====Risk (Futures)==== In futures trading Risk, is the probability of loss of trading capital.
Market risk
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====Seasonal traders==== take advantage of repetitive price patterns, by trading historical patterns of excess supply and scarcity.
====Seasonal spread futures trading==== that take advantage of seasonal patterns by holding long and short contracts simultaneously in the same or a related commodity markets.
====Securities position==== securities position is the amount of the security under control or in inventory.
====Sell==== In Investing to give up control of an asset in exchange for a valuable consideration.
====Short (futures)==== brings with it an obligation to deliver in the future, to sell before you buy.
Short selling
====Slippage==== In futures, the difference between estimated transaction costs and the amount actually paid. Brokers not being effective enough at executing orders, as well as market-impacted, liquidity, and frictional costs may contribute.
====Speculation==== is buying, holding, and selling for capital gain. Talk:Speculation
====Spread==== is the difference between the values of any two securities. This differential can be analyzed and traded, using technical analysis. Spread traders hold long and short contracts simultaneously in the same or related security markets.
====Spread trader==== does not need to be seasonal
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Trade
Technical analysis
Technical analysis
====Breakout (technical analysis)==== when prices pass through, and stay through an area of support or resistance.
Bottom (technical analysis)
MACD
====Parabolic SAR==== Wilder's trailing stop based on prices tending to stay within a parabolic curve during a strong trend.
Point and figure chart
====Relative strength index==== Wilders (RSI) measures the relative gains over relative losses over time.
Resistance (technical analysis)
Talk:Resistance (technical analysis) Resistance - an area that brings on increased selling.
====Lane’s Stochastics==== indicates entry signals based on reactions of professional traders on the close
====Stop loss order==== executes a trade based on price action.
Support (technical analysis)
Talk:Support (technical analysis) Support - an area that brings on increased buying.
Top (technical analysis)
Trend
Westerns
Talk:List of cowboys and cowgirls
Western (Western pictures have in common that they look like westerns.)
Street road racing
Short selling
I'm glad you're doing well as a seasonal spread trader, but that's no reason to force-fit a note about it under "short selling.” --OwenX 17:26, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The previous definition of short selling is out and out wrong. The definition should be universal and neutral. What you have there is a load of mis-information. It is misleading and untrue. It only applies to one small highly regulated use. Maybe you should change the name to something like “short selling (stocks only),” because it sure does not apply to real estate or normal businesses.
The current page says “In order to sell something short, one must borrow it from someone else.” Bill Gates did not have to borrow something from someone else, and he was selling short. How do you explain that?
I can sell 5,000 bushels of November Corn, I do not have to borrow anything. How can this page be true?
When Bill Gates sold an operating system he “did not have,” to IBM. Gates was selling short. He sold something before he bought it. He did not adhere to all these things this writer says. Short selling futures, real estate, and fungible property is a part of the Speculation business and it does not fit the current limited description used under this heading for selling short. GT
Questions
- Where can we post a page that needs attention so that someone can fix it?
- See:
- Misplaced Pages:Pages needing attention/Mathematics
- Misplaced Pages:Pages needing attention/Statistics
- Misplaced Pages:Pages needing attention Oleg Alexandrov | talk 23:35, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Suggestion
I hope you won't think me too rude for suggesting this but I think it might be useful for you to check out some of the pages on Misplaced Pages:Featured articles and see how the depth and breadth of topics that make up a wikipedia article. I have noticed you adding several "glossary style" entries which are more appropriate for wiktionary. For instance, wouldn't better to have a substantial on (financial) risk in all its forms rather than the current non-article about risk in the futures market? Pcb21| Pete 00:59, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Remark
Not that I care, but on Misplaced Pages you are not encouraged to delete contents from your talk page. You could archive it instead, that is, make a page like User talk:-oo0(GoldTrader)0oo-/Archive_1 and move the old stuff in there. Oleg Alexandrov
PS: Well, if you really want it you of course can delete things, that was just a recommandation. Oleg Alexandrov 23:24, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I thought history would hold it. GT
- That's not quite the same thing. But well, I now tell you how to manage your own talk page. Never mind. Oleg Alexandrov 02:07, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Order (exchange)
Please see Talk:Order (exchange). Some comments are made.--Wai Wai (talk) 22:03, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
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Re: Cowboy hats
Go ahead and edit. This is a Wiki, after all. I don't see why you'd need to tell me -- I've never even edited the cowboy hat page.
If you feel you're about to make a sweeping or controversial edit, you can discuss it on the appropriate discussion page at Talk:Cowboy hat. rspεεr (talk) 09:46, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
- Works for me. I haven't touched that page in years. – ClockworkSoul 16:55, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Go ahead and edit the article. --Una Smith (talk) 22:37, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Your reply to me doesn't make sense. But anyway. It looks like you've got some information to add -- but be sure to back it up with references. One way to make a reference is to use tags that look like <ref>cite your source here</ref> after each fact. rspεεr (talk) 06:32, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- Hi Gold, go ahead and keep sandboxing the article on the talk page. It's sort of in that in-between awkward stage but I think you are generally heading in the right direction (just be VERY careful to not replace one set of iffy material with a different set of iffy material) Watch ref formatting, too. See WP:CITE if you get hung up. I'm a bit busy right now to do much, but my suggestion is that as long as you have footnotes to sources that fit WP:V, you won't have a lot of problems. The problem in these articles arises when we find sources like "Joe's web page about stuff" that may be filled with a lot of myths and inaccuracies (for example, there are web sites claiming horses were domesticated 50,000 years ago, when in reality they were only domesticated about 5,000 years ago, but that inaccurate figure is all over the web on a lot of people's personal sites) Cowboy life pages in particular are full of this stuff. Much nonsense and mythos out there. My thinking is that when you have a rewritten intro, give me a shout for a final review before it goes into the article, likewise each following or rewritten new section. I'm at my best proofreading and wordsmithing right now, and if there is dubious research, I'm apt to spot it. But time, I don't have much. Other brushfires...sigh...Montanabw 20:06, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- Hi again, finally had a break from other crises to take a look at your work and for the most part liked your changes. Of course, I still edited relentlessly, as is my wont. I restored some photos, added another, and also reinserted a new version of the old intro. However, very little material of yours was actually tossed, mostly just rearranged a bit and cleaned up per wiki MOS and my own wordsmithing concepts. I also threw out some old stuff from before your edits that was either repetitive or had just been bugging me for awhile. See the talk page of the cowboy hat article to further understand what I was up to, and feel free to discuss my changes to your changes there! I was delighted to see all your source material and I most sincerely hope you consider my edits as a good faith attempt to continue to improve the article. You did a lot of GREAT work, and I thank you. Montanabw 06:29, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
- Moving discussion over to cowboy hat page, I think will be easier than jumping around on multiple talk pages. Answer is there. Montanabw 07:43, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey Gold, I know we need to get more cross-links to your Boss of the plains article, but putting links to clothing articles, where there are no links to all the other regalia, doesn't quite work. I didn't toss the links to be mean, you just need to find more specific articles...have you checked the categories and the western wear article? Montanabw 05:54, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Joseph commodity trader
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Auto Racing
You are replying to five year old comments. There is not a lot point in reply to questions that old. The questioners have either long since left wikipedia, or found resolutions by other means. --Falcadore (talk) 01:56, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Anyone doing research is going to find those posts. What do you think we should do, remove them unanswered?
-oo0(GoldTrader)0oo- (talk) 03:09, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
- People doing research aren't going to be looking at the talk pages. And those who do would understand would understand what the talk pages is for and not expect to look for answers there for questions that old. I was merely pointing out the level of relevance of your actions. Five years late is still five years late. --Falcadore (talk) 03:49, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
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