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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 at 5:31 pm  
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Forex Trading

The Forex World Trade Market, Largest Market on Earth

Markets are going up an down, but since the latest so-called world recession, the financial institutions has lost a lot value worldwide and it seems the end is not yet. All markets in the world has lost billions of dollars, the stock market, the curreny trading in all countries has devaluated and interest rates went down, almost to zero for bankers. The Central Bank of Europe lowered today the interest-rate for financial institutions to one and half %, trying to get the flow back in the markets.

 Profit from both rising and falling markets here:

Previously relegated to large corporations and the affluent until the proliferation of the internet and online discount currency brokers, currency trading is coming into its own. Read on to learn more.

It is crucial to be aware of specific issues happening in the world, particularly if they have the potential to offer benefits, such as Forex trading. Essentially, the Forex market is a non-stop cash market where currencies of various nations are traded. It is somewhat similar to a stock market, with Forex trading these foreign currencies are continually being bought and sold throughout both local and global markets.

There are numerous rewards that are extended to private and potential investors within Forex trading, including a giant liquid market making it simple to trade the majority of currencies, volatile markets offering numerous profit opportunities, the capability to profit from both rising and falling markets, and leveraged trading with low margin requirements.

The Details

When it comes to Forex trading, one of the most significant things to bear in mind is what the basic investor’s goal is here. Simply speaking, the goal is to make a profit from movements in foreign currency. When trading currencies it is crucial that an investor only make trades when they have an expectation the currency that they are purchasing to increase in value relative to the currency that they will be selling, otherwise there no gain will result.

The exchange rates are continually fluctuating in Forex trading and it is important for all investors to remain on top of these types of changes and be mindful of them. There are numerous resources that are available to help in this regard, both on the internet as well as off, and any of these will really work well provided that they are continually being updated and not just once a day.

 
Forex Currency Trading  -  video below

The Differences

There are numerous important differences when comparing Forex trading and other stock market trading. Firstly, unlike the trading of basic stocks, futures or options, this kind of currency trading does not happen on a regulated exchange. It is not regulated by any governing body and so there is a great deal more freedom with this specific kind of trading.

Forex is the biggest financial market throughout the world and the retail Forex market is strictly a speculative market and investors need to be mindful of this. There are no physical exchanges of currencies actually ever taking place, but instead all trades that are placed here exist merely as entries in a computer and are then netted out dependant upon the market price.

Forex is decidedly a market worth looking into, though it is crucial that any possible investor first be trained and aware on what it necessitates and what is expected of them here. Otherwise significant loss will in all likelihood result.

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Brokerage firms

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 at 3:36 pm  
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The Brokerage  Firms Role

Brokerage and Stock Markets

When you’re ready to dive in and start investing in stocks, you first have to choose a broker. It’s kind of like buying a car. You can do all the research in the world and know exactly what kind of car you want to buy, still, you need a venue to do the actual transaction. Similarly, when you want to buy stock, your task is to do all the research you can to select the company you want to invest in. Still, you need a broker to actually buy the stock, whether you buy over the phone or online.

The broker’s primary role is to serve as the vehicle through which you either buy or sell stock. When I talk about brokers, I’m referring to organizations such as Charles Schwab, Merrill Lynch, E TRADE, and many other organizations that can buy stock on your behalf. Brokers can also be individuals who work for such firms. Although you can buy some stocks directly from the company that issues them, to purchase most stocks, you still need a broker.

Although the primary task of brokers is the buying and selling of securities (keep in mind that the word securities refers to the world of financial or paper investments, and that stocks are only a small part of that world), such as stocks, they can perform other tasks for you, including the following:

– Providing advisory services – Investors pay brokers a fee for investment advice. Customers also get access to the firm’s research.

– Offering limited banking services – Brokers can offer features such as interest-bearing accounts, check writing, direct deposit, and credit cards.

– Brokering other securities – Brokers can also buy bonds, mutual funds, options, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), and other investments on your behalf.

Personal stockbrokers make their money from individual investors like you and me through various fees, including the following:

– Brokerage commissions – This fee is for buying and/or selling stocks and other securities.

– Margin interest charges – This interest is charged to investors for borrowing against their brokerage account for investment purposes.

– Service charges – These charges are for performing administrative tasks and other functions. Brokers charge fees to investors for Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and for mailing stocks in certificate form.

Any broker you deal with should be registered with the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In addition, to protect your money after you’ve deposited it into a brokerage account, that broker should be a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). SIPC doesn’t protect you from market losses; it protects your money in case the brokerage firm goes out of business. To find out whether the broker is registered with these organizations, contact the NASD, SEC, and SIPC.

The distinction between personal stockbrokers and institutional stockbrokers is important. Institutional brokers make money from institutions and companies through investment banking and securities placement fees (such as initial public offerings and secondary offerings), advisory services, and other broker services. Personal stockbrokers generally offer the same services to individuals and small businesses.

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By Anthony Green
Published: 1/23/2008

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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 at 3:36 pm  
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Bull and Bear Stearns  INSIDER TRADING Scandal

Insider stock trading at UBS, Bear Stearns, Bank of America, Mongan Stanley and its consequences…

In the biggest Insider Trader scandal in two decades, members of four prominent firms were implicated in the developing scandal. The firms included Bank of America (BAC.N), Morgan Stanley (MS.N), UBS (UBS.N), and Bear Stearns (BSC.N). To begin with, a little history is in order. Insider trading in this country is illegal; this is not the case in certain other countries. In some countries principally England, such trading is legal. Prior to the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President of the United States in 1933, insider trading was legal in this country also.

In order to restore financial confidence in the American economic system after the massive impact of the Depression hit the country in the late 1920′s, the newly elected President Roosevelt mandated the creation of the Securities Exchange Commission, part of the Commission’s duties were now to reign in, and put an end to insider trading. Who did FDR appoint as the first SEC Commissioner – Joseph Kennedy? Old Joe Kennedy was one of the notorious insider traders that took advantage of any and all information that came his way.

New Trading Scandal on Wall Street       video below

In the same league as Jesse Livermore, Jacob Fisk, and Bernard Baruch, Joe Kennedy knew where the bones were buried. He quickly moved to create a series of laws, rules, and regulations that would outlaw the very practices that in past decades had enabled him, Kennedy to become one of the four wealthiest individuals in America. The practice of lawful insider trading had come to an end legally. To show you how effective these policies have been, whenever a real case of such trading comes to public light, it makes nationwide headlines. This is because of the relative rarity of such scandalous behavior being brought to public light.

During the 1980′s, the biggest insider trading scandal which became public knowledge was Ivan Boesky, probably the premiere arbitrage player of his generation when he was accused of insider trading. Boesky was caught via tape recordings taking advantage of such information. His primary source was Dennis Levine, an affable investment banker working for Drexel Burnham Lambert; a now defunct banking firm whose primary asset was Michael Milken’s junk bond capital raising unit.

The Latest Scandal

It looks like this current scandal followed two separate tracks occurring simultaneously. The profits generated amounted to $15 million dollars over a period of five years. Insiders were used at Morgan Stanley and UBS Securities. These individuals including Mitchel Guttenberg, who as an institutional client manager at UBS would be aware of research upgrades and downgrades taking place on a daily basis. He was given hundreds of thousands of dollars for his knowledge of non-public information. The men purchasing the information were David Tavdy, and Erik Franklin. Using the non-public information available to them, they were each able to amass $4 million in trading profits.

In a separate scheme running a parallel track, Randi Collotta a lawyer, was an employee of Morgan Stanley in their compliance department. Her husband Christopher Collotta was an attorney in private practice. Randi would come up with information on mergers and acquisitions that Morgan Stanley was involved with, and pass the tips to her husband Christopher. The husband would then sell the information on Wall Street for money that amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

During the course of the schemes, information was sold to Erick Franklin who was a Bear Stearns Hedge Fund client. People like Franklin are use to doing 50 to 100 different trades per day, each day. Such individuals are able to bury their results in the sheer mass of trading that is done on a daily basis.

Although caught, the conspirators were sophisticated enough to use facilities outside the immediate firms that they each worked for. Meetings were held in the famous Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station. Disposable cell phones were utilized. Secret Codes were invented. Text messages on cell phones were employed. E-mail was OUT. Telephone calls with HOT TIPS were OUT. Nobody exchanged checks. CASH was the rule of the day, every day.

As of today, 13 people have been arrested with 11 of them facing SEC charges. Three Hedge funds have been charged with criminal behavior. Four of the 13 arrested have already pleaded guilty. The hedge funds are tough group to supervise because they don’t have the degree of compliance that is present in a brokerage firm. They are also probably much harder to detect as to insider trading involvement. It will not be a surprise if many more people are arrested and charged, than the group currently mentioned.

The demand for performance among hedge funds where a tenth of a percentage point in performance can mean the difference of millions of dollars of additional compensation is already well known. Depending upon performance, hedge funds live and die by performance. There are 9000 basically unregulated hedge funds in operation today, managing $1.4 trillion dollars, plus 6 to 1 leverage. About a thousand of these same hedge funds go out of business every year, with a 1000 new start-ups coming on stream.

It is not beyond the realm of possibility, to see how a person under water with any kind of questionable character can succumb to the allure of insider trading if in fact; such trading will dramatically alter the performance of the fund he or she is managing. It is becoming apparent that hedge fund trading is unsupervised. This case is not going to be the last case involving insider trading.

Hedge funds are also becoming more heavily involved in the financing of Presidential elections in an attempt to curry favor with Presidential candidates. To what extent will the amount of money floating around among hedge funds lead to a lack of supervisory action by elected officials caught in ethical conflicts.

In this, the latest insider trading scandals, the government was able to pick up irregular profitable trading patterns in the merger and acquisition of two publicly traded companies. They were Adobe Systems, and its acquisition of Macromedia in 2005, and ProLogis, and its acquisition of Catellus Development.

Once the SEC saw the irregular trading, it was only a question of time and effort before the patterns revealed a conspiracy, and the conspiracy revealed insider trading. Now it’s up to the court system to figure out the rest, but first, expect more arrests.

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By Richard Stoyeck

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