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Outlook 2013: Special Report by David Hightower

The historical commodity super-cycle has not come to an end, even if major commodity index measures and a number of key physical commodity markets finished 2012 well below the historic highs they forged in 2011. Certainly, slower global activity and wall-to-wall global fiscal uncertainty has tripped up many commodity markets

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Today’s Futures Trader

By Iqbal Brainch Chief Marketing Officer Advantage Futures   Electronic trading transformed the futures industry over the past decade. The players have adapted and evolved to suit the new technological landscape.  How have open outcry traders made the leap to a world of microseconds, colocation, algorithms and automation?  To understand

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Our Explosive Growth of Futures Trading from Dubai

There seems to be a significant increase in Advantage Futures business coming out of Dubai. Any thoughts on reasons behind this? There are significant regulations in Dubai that provide a tax favorable environment for traders to conduct business there. More recently, with consolidation in the industry, we have seen a

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Back to the Future of Trading

Traders are often divided into two camps: point and click traders and automated traders. And, when we think of the future of trading, we focus on topics like colocation, microseconds, server hosting and direct market access. But what if you want to apply human discretion and want faster speeds, instead

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