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Finally, are you ready to monitor the oil market 24/7 - to be peeking at your monitor even while kissing your spouse - and are you well stocked with ulcer medications? Yes, it is that easy. Now for the hard part: profit...
...futures market is like a perpetual roulette wheel: red or black, up or down ... in the end, you're just betting on the direction of prices. And just as in roulette, the house will hold an advantage. In this case the house effectively consists of big players like Goldman Sachs who own supercomputers that can easily stay one step ahead of your moves. Also, since you're not a big player the action is going to come at a steep cost. You'll pay more in exchange fees and commissions than the big boys, and get less profitable prices, buying...
...futures market is a zero-sum game. When you trade oil futures, all you're really doing is exchanging cash with other traders. You're all betting with each other on the price of oil ... except it turns out that your bets, in turn, determine the price. It's a bit of a catch-22, but that's the market...
...Then Comes Obesity?" laid out a few valid points but not the crucial one [July 20]. When a woman has got her man she folds away her advertising flags and takes down the billboards. Like any precious object that has been snapped up, she is no longer on the market and any further allure would only complicate matters. If only our buyers would appreciate this and not start looking around at other billboards when they realize that theirs no longer has any frills. After all, we really are doing it for them! Patricia McCandless, Burleigh Heads, Australia
...middle manager at a state-owned steel company, Zhang has no worries about his job or China's economy. "Things are still pretty good," he says. "I have no problem now affording one of these," nodding toward the array of gleaming new Buicks nearby. (Read "China's Booming Car Market Shifts into Reverse...