Dow futures are futures contracts that are based on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). DJIA is the index of 30 blue chip stocks that are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Dow index is one of the most famous stock index in the world and everyday if you watch financial news like that on CNBC, you will hear constantly about the performance of the Dow Index that day.
Futures trading is somewhat different than the traditional buy and hold investing. In futures trading you have to constantly monitor the price. if you don’t than you will very soon receive the margin call from your broker. Dow Futures are based on the Dow Jones Index and the value of the Dow futures contract is equal to 10 times the value of the index at a particular point in time. Continue reading ‘Dow Futures’ »
Posted by Morgan on September 24, 2011 at 12:39 pm under Futures-and-Commodities.
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From the end of 1999 through the end of 2009, all of the popular Wall Street market performance measurement tools were in the red. The average bloodletting level of the DJIA, the S & P 500, and the NASDAQ was a disturbing-to-some minus nineteen percent.
The Media has dubbed it “The Dismal Decade”.
Most of the investment community is either open-mouthed in shock or strident in blame about the somethings or someones who must be responsible for such horrific performance. Never again they swear to their clients— without ever a hint that they might themselves be the problem.
It won’t be long before the Wizards of Wall Street announce that they have studied the situation, and readied their sales minions to switch the shattered investment public into yet another fail proof (fool-magnet?) portfolio of hedges, gimmicks, signal responders, and panaceas for whatever the new decade brings. Continue reading ‘A Dismal Decade? No Way – Market Cycle Investing’ »
Posted by Morgan on January 7, 2010 at 5:46 pm under Investing.
Tags: Advisors, Asset allocation, Bonds, business cycle, curves, cycle, DJIA, economics, finance, interest rates, investment management, investors, market gurus, nasdaq, s & p, Stock market, Stocks, tax code, treasury bonds, wall street
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