Commodity trading in Business & Economics Books

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Every day, market makers account for half a billion dollars in the option trade, bringing liquidity and stability to the commodity, bond, currency, stock, and futures options markets by being ready to buy or sell some quantity of any option at a specified price. The width of the bid/asked price spread determines the market maker's profit. But, if it's just buy-low sell-high what's the big mystery? Controlling option risk. Option risk is more complex and comes in more varieties than most other investment risks. That's why traders, speculators, hedgers, scalpers, and market makers everywhere will draw considerable understanding and profit from this first book length guide to market making. Inside you'll find valuable information and tips on the economics of market making and the basics and terminology of options, covering fair value models, volatility, and differences between option markets; option risk, risk measurement, and the range of risk profiles possible in single one-month trades with definitions, analytical tools, and strategies; synthetic price relations and how to master this almost risk-free core of option arbitrage trading; calendar spread risk and strategies for limiting it and still using time markets efficiently; delta-neutral and limited risk strategies for nonsynthetic market making, including the butterfly/ratio time spreads; and option market maker software listings and information. Provides an insider's insights on the complexities of the option market maker's world. In this increasingly competitive arena, Option Market Making gives you the tools you need to beat the odds - and make the trade.

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In addition to discussing financial and commodity futures and options, this book links them to the physical economy at large, a linkage which is particularly important when one is thinking of physical commodity markets. The book looks at not only the futures of derivative markets, but it also explores the physical markets and the underlying economy.<br> l Written by leading authors in the field of commodity markets<br> l Contains numerous up-to-date examples, case studies, and scenarios to assist in gaining an overall understanding<br> l Covers all aspects of commodity trading, including the inter-relationship between the different functions

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Authoritative, up-to-date research and analysis that provides a dramatic new understanding of the rewards-and risks-of investing in CTAs<br> Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) are an increasingly popular and potentially profitable investment alternative for institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals. Commodity Trading Advisors is one of the first books to study their performance in detail and analyze the "survivorship bias" present in CTA performance data. This book investigates the many benefits and risks associated with CTAs, examining the risk/return characteristics of a number of different strategies deployed by CTAs from a sophisticated investor's perspective. A contributed work, its editors and contributing authors are among today's leading voices on the topic of commodity trading advisors and a veritable "Who's Who" in hedge fund and CTA research.<br> Greg N. Gregoriou (Plattsburgh, NY) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance and Research Coordinator in the School of Business and Economics at the State University of New York. Vassilios N. Karavas (Amherst, MA) is Director of Research at Schneeweis Partners. Francois-Serge Lhabitant (Coppet, Switzerland) is a FAME Research Fellow, and a Professor of Finance at EDHEC (France) and at HEC University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Fabrice Rouah (Montreal, Quebec) is Institut de Finance Mathématique de Montréal Scholar in the finance program at McGill University.

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This book presents a major breakthrough in successful commodity trading, featuring a systematic trading program with documented proof that 7 winners out of every 8 seasonal tendency commodity trades achieved an outstanding $687,942 gain.

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This book analyzes the impact of regulation on today's commodity futures trading market by examining the development and growth of both. It addresses the development of regulatory efforts and examines the regulated futures exchange, discusses the creation and development of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and focuses on the types of commodity interests that are traded and their regulation. Commodity interests include leverage contracts, commodity futures contracts and options, and foreign contracts. Including an examination of the problems faced by the government in its regulatory efforts, this important new work is an accessible and authoritative guide for anyone involved in the commodity futures market, including banks, businesses, speculators, and regulators.

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A detailed guide to trading in the soft commodities--coffee, cocoa, sugar, fruit. Bernard Savaiko, senior futures analyst with Paine Webber, explains trading and price forecasting methods that permit individual traders to compete on an equal footing with the large, well-capitalized commercial interests that have traditionlly dominated these markets. Explains contracts, market mechanisms, fundamental and technical analysis.

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Buy Low, Sell High <P>This one-of-a-kind book outlines a highly successful alternative approach to trading commodity futures that is specifically tailored to today's low-priced commodities markets. Unlike technical analysis, which uses statistics to derive trading strategies, scale trading utilizes fundamental analysis to make a plan to slowly buy as prices reach bottom and sell as they climb back up. Here, top trader and author Hal Masover describes scaling techniques that work in every commodity market and supplies you with a scale trading system that generates a complete rundown of how much money will be needed, when, and where. Learn when to begin a scale-down buying program, how to choose a broker, and the facts and benefits of scale trading.<BR><UL> <LI>Scaling works in every kind of commodity, including metals, energies, and agricultural commodities</LI> <LI>Scale trading is a fairly conservative methodology that uses big trader strategies but on a much smaller scale </LI> <LI>Value Investing in Commodity Futures includes a disk with the scale program-</LI></UL> <P>...all you have to do is input the data and the program will show how much money is needed, when, and where <P>Take advantage of the only complete guide to an increasingly popular approach to futures trading. In these times of amazingly low commodity prices, the method presented in this comprehensive and invaluable book works best.

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<P>Commodity Fundamentals provides comprehensive coverage of supply/demand data for more than 20 physical commodities in the precious metals, energy, grains, and tropical commodity markets. Detailed information on the production, transportation, and storage of each commodity allows traders to monitor developments and identify trading opportunities with a particular emphasis on crude oil, heating oil, gasoline, and the gold market. The book also discusses trading techniques that are specific to physical commodities, such as certain types of spread trades and cash-and-carry trades. An appendix outlines where to obtain additional statistical information on each commodity, including copies of actual exchange contracts. <P>Ronald C. Spurga (New York, NY) is a Certified Financial Planner and a Vice President of ABN AMRO Bank. He is the bestselling author of Balance Sheet Basics (1-591-84052-X), and he has appeared as a commentator on CNBC.

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Trying to trade stock, bond, commodity and currency markets without intermarket awareness is like trying to drive a car without looking out the side and rear windows-very dangerous. In this guide to intermarket analysis, the author uses years of experience in technical analysis plus extensive charts to clearly demonstrate the interrelationshps that exist among the various market sectors and their importance. You'll learn how to use activity in surrounding markets in the same way that most people employ traditional technical indicators for directional clues. Shows the analyst how to focus outward, rather than inward, to provide a more rational understanding of technical forces at work in the marketplace.

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A well-researched guide to the most profitable spreads in the futures market<br> <br> The Encyclopedia of Commodity and Financial Spreads is divided by product category-energy, natural gas, meats, soybeans, corn/wheat, currencies, interest rates, and metals. The precise performance of each spread is identified-over the previous 20 years-and combined with a graph that displays visually the price performance of the spread. For each of the 175 trades identified, there is an explanation of the trade, its history, and advice on how traders should approach the trade.<br> <br> Steve W. Moore (Eugene, OR) has been trading and researching the futures markets for more than 25 years. He formed Moore Research in 1990 to provide traders with historical research and seasonal analysis to better trade the commodity markets. Jerry Toepke (Eugene, Oregon) is Editor of Moore Research Center, Inc. Nick Colley (Eugene, Oregon) is Research Director of Moore Research Center, Inc.

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Gives a basic overview of commodities trading, explaining why futures contracts exist, the difference between market price and contract price, and how contracts are prices, as well as defining terms such as longs, shorts, ticks, and limits.

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Robert Barnes teaches you the ten most effective, profitable trading methods ever devised to challenge, and to beat, the commodity futures market.

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