Israel Englander

Firm: Millennium ManagementCity: New York2009 Age: 60 Originating from Brooklyn, Israel “Izzy” Englander graduated from New York University (NYU). He later started out in the MBA program at NYU but left early to trade on the AMEX. He met John Mulheren on the trading floor and the two formed Jamie Securities. Mulheren’s conviction for insider

Inverse Exchange Traded Funds – Inverse ETFs

Inverse (or short) ETFs allow investors to profit from falling prices in the underlying benchmark. Buying an inverse ETF is similar to holding a short position, however a margin account is not required.

Gold ETFs and ETNs

Gold Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) allow an investor the opportunity to trade gold with the same ease as buying a stock. GLD, the first gold ETF, was launched in 2004 by State Street Global Advisors. In 2005 iShares introduced the COMEX Gold Trust (IAU) Leveraged Gold ETFs Powershares DB Gold

What is a Trading System?

A trading system is a collection of formulas and rules that generate buy and sell recommendations. Trading systems have been developed for decades, but the recent advances in technology with the pc and internet have increased interest in them and broadened the number of people actively involved in their use. Technical indicators such as oscillators,

Market Profile Trading

Market Profile™ is a form of technical analysis that was jointly developed by J. Peter Steidlmayer and the Chicago Board of Trade. Market Profile uses  a statistical approach to the analysis of price data. The market profile graph is simply a frequency distribution of prices histogram.