Trader Dan Comments On This Week’s Action In The Continuous Commodity Index: Courtesy of Jim Sinclaire …This chart…is significant in telling us the direction that gold prices will take moving forward. For the deflationists to be proven correct, this chart will need to break down technically which would require both a move below the 400 level and a downturn in […]

It’s that time of year again – firm registration renewals are due by December 11, 2009. Other important upcoming dates: * December 24, 2009 – Deadline to submit any form filings for 2009. * December 25, 2009 to January 3, 2010 – Both the IARD and CRD systems will be unavailable between these dates. * January 1, 2010 – FINRA’s […]

“The Alternative Investment Management Association, as the global hedge fund industry association, supports the efforts of policymakers in the U.S. to tackle systemic risk. We support the reporting of systemically relevant information by larger hedge fund managers to the national authorities in the interests of financial stability.” “However we do wish to express our concern over a measure contained in […]

“…we try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his “best” cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his “worst” spot, the low outside […]