Is it true that theres hedge fund spec in the copper futures market and that the price will soon collapse?
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Hedge fund cowboys are smart and crafty, so I wouldn't put it past em.  I'd invest instead in Whole Foods Market, and that's where I'd go to fix health problems instead of using doctors.
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well, fx cfds are great and hedge funds use them to make millions.. but day trading? the answer above said it.. a losing game.\n\ni think sometime ago i came across a emperical studied that proved day-traders lose everything in the long-run. \n\nsome of the best traders dont over-trade. they don't commit without any goal. \n\ninvestment is key. \n\ncan potentially make lot of money from trading cfds from making 10 trades a year - holding them for sometime -provided u have the margin.. than from day-trading. the money u make today ull lose tomorrow.
641433
there are about a million funds on metals. Look thru the newspaper. Also, there are hundreds of indices on cash metals, futures, precious, semi precious, etc.
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If you find out, let me know.  The future is anybodies guess. Some companies are becoming good buys. Others still have a way to go yet.\n\nFear is currently ruling the market and it might be a while yet before greed wins the upper hand. \n\nThere is a lesson to be learned here and I hope it is not too expensive for you.   That lesson is 1. maintain a cash reserve.  2. when you have a good profit, take some of it 3. buy low. sell high. \n\nThe longer the correction runs the better the buying opportunity. It is ok to take a small bite now and then but keep the bite small.
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Goog is way overvalued and is price currently due to speculation and a lot of hype in the market. I believe goog will go below 400.
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If that's what you really think, then buy the Euro Currency Trust, which trades under symbol FXE.\n\nBut currencies are a risky game, trends could reverse tomorrow on one international event or the other.  A diversifed portfolio makes more sense, and is safer.  Be careful.\n\nHope this helps!\n--J.
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Some sites say it's the Chinese demand, which continues to grow.\n\nOthers say: The answer to same lies with hedge funds, which are major buyers in the metal and are going to try to hold up the price.
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I don't think invest is exactly the correct word to use in this circumstance. Speculate would be a better term. And not a very promising speculation at that. \n\nPS. It has never made a profit. \n\nI will admit this though. It is very volatile and the volume is climbing and it is trading near its 3 mo low. Heck it is currently about 1.30 and has traded as high as 4.75. If you have no qualms about the possibility of loosing every cent, go ahead.
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Well looking the economy situation it is tough to say but I would say in past there was price of $ 850 sometime in 1970s or sometime they took pretty close 20 yrs to bring down price to $ 275.\n\nAs per that now since market is not steady too it is big risk but this time is still good to buy gold since as per predictions the price will be around 1000-1200 soon so if you have extra money buy some keep aside.   also gold is anytime investment rather than buy anything else buy gold.
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I have to agree with the 1st responder.  Commodities are extremely risky.  The reason they are is because they are purchased as futures on very low margin requirements--10%.  And such events as a droubt or a freeze in Florida or Russia buying up the entire soy bean crop can cause prices to advance dramatically.  Or in the recent case of oil and natural gas, prices can fall dramatically.  In either case if one is caught on the wrong side of a position, the results can be catistropic, as a hedge fund recently discovered with their natural gas positions. Currency trading on the Forex falls also into that category as margin requirements are similar.  \n\nSimilarly commodities and currencies and also yield the highest returns.  Anyone who shorted oil back in June made a ton of money.  In fact could have easily become a millionaire overnight.  Similarly anyone who had shorted the dollar 3 years ago would also have done very well or bought gold contracts. \n\nSomeone mentioned selling naked calls as being very risky.  That is a common belief but is not supported by the facts.  There are instances, very few instances, where that strategy does yield large losses but in general it is a very rewarding strategy, yielding good returns about 85% of the time.\n\nT-bills yield about the least returns of the sophisticated investments.  Savings accounts by far yield the least returns of the un-sophisticated investments.  And perhaps whole life policies. And social security contributions.  ROI on social security contributions is about a negative 5 to 25%.
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gold prices are not bound to come down anywhere in the world..even in the US.\n\nso long dollar was the reserve currency of many countries..as dollar begins to depreciate against major currency[the reason we all know] governments are moving to more stable form of investment\n\ntime and over gold is proved to be a gold metal for investment.. \n\ncurrent sources point that japnese govts and many other asian govts are investing heavily in gold, causing the price to sky rocket\n\nyes they wil come down , when we start to find another stable currency
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haha no! The market always changes dude, its now or never!!\n\nits a bit illegal but best of luck!
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This question belongs to 'Economics'. \nThe answer is 'no' because it may lead to market failure.
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Several years ago there was a commodity traded, maine potatoes.  Every year for something over two-dozen years, the price would go up in the middle of January through early February.  Information was not as free back then, I could track causes better today on the Internet.  So I had some money and practiced trading in corn, making a little bit while getting the ropes.  The target was this, the smallest increase was 8 cents a pound, 50,000 pound contracts.  I caught it on a down tick and felt like a surfer catching a wave.  Unfortunately, it was a tsunami.  There were several millionaires who had also spotted the trend and they thought they could buck it.  So the price went limit up, trading stopping after the first couple of minutes, doing this for a few days, then limit down, again stopping trading after a few minutes into the next trading day.  I got a margin call, but it was for more money than I had, so the brokerage confiscated my position.  When the dust settled, the price had indeed gone up as I antcipated, but I was trapped out, unable to profit from it.  For that matter I was paying off that debt to the brokerage firm for years, instead of paying off my mortgage, which is what would have happened if those guys hadn't been greedy.  Meanwhile, it bankrupted something upwards of 100 rich traders who had tried to turn the market, and sent something like 60 to prison.\n\nThis doesn't happen all the time.  Just be careful, you can lose more than you put in, although trading the option MAY limit that.  For instance, even in stock options, if you sell a naked option and things go against you and someone calls that option and you haven't had a covering option to cancel, you are on the hook for supplying the shares.  Be careful of trading too close to the expiration.  I remember positioning for one thing expected to go up, and by the time the events began driving it up, my option was close to expiring, I got almost nothing out of it.\n\nA good plan is a wonderful thing.  But with commodities and commodity options, there is still uncertainty, and definitely danger.
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the world is headed for a crisis- gold has an established history of being valuable in and of itself, so people switch from currency to gold if they feel that the currencies are unstable. it also means that people who understand market forces are seeing "other than hard value" commodities are a very high risk as they are "over" valued- and can't stay that way- also, the total debt of the US is staggering- and therefore what is there to back up the dollar? it's value is entirely theoretical- and won't stand in a crunch- so, buy gold, silver- have something on hand with real value.
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OK, let's put some numbers on the problem.  We have an asset with monthly volatility of about 10% and a near-zero expected return in the long run. How likely is it that its price will increase by 70% in five months?  If I am doing my math correctly, this would be a 3.17 standard deviation event, meaning that the likelihood of that happening is about 0.08%. \n\nIf you built an ARMA model, you could probably get a higher likelihood estimate though...  I'd run one out of curiosity, but I don't have eViews handy...
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Whatever it says it means! (LOL) Read the axes of the graph. It could be price against time, maybe?