Links from The Investment FAQ: Information about Derivatives
Here is a small list of links to sites about options, futures, and commodities, including information sources and brokers who will place trades for you.
- Big Horn Financial Services helps investors build, manage and
preserve their investment goals in the commodities industry.
http://www.bighornfinancial.com/ - Derivatives One offers a comprehensive derivatives valuation
service aimed at the non-professional user. It has over 50
derivatives models and provides help on every input to every model.
Free trials available.
http://www.derivativesone.com - Futures Guide offers a futures and options Digest, free commodity
charts, settlement prices, and market updates.
http://futuresguide.com/ - Futures.Net offers an electronic community for the futures industry.
http://futures.net - FuturesWeb is an information portal for futures, options,
and stock traders.
http://www.futuresweb.com - INO Global Markets is an umbrella site for futures and options
information. Houses more than 50 organizations.
http://www.ino.com - Jake Bernstein offers information about futures and the futures
markets.
http://www.trade-futures.com/ - Lind Waldock offers information about futures trading.
http://www.lind-waldock.com/ - Numa Financial Systems Ltd. offers information on derivatives,
archives of Finance NetWatch newsletter covering Internet financial
developments, directory of investment software companies, etc.
http://www.numa.com - The Option Fool, Hubert Lee, offers a collection of wisdom about
options trading on his web site. Optimal use of his site requires
the Shockwave Director plugin for your browser.
http://optionfool.com - Option Trading Pedia promises to provide the most authoritative option
trading information and education for free and to unite option traders
globally. Optiontradingpedia.com is MastersoEquity.com's free option
trading education initiative.
http://www.optiontradingpedia.com/Peter McPhee offers a free option pricing spreadsheet, real-time trading tutorials, and other free information for the savvy investor.
http://www.optiontradingtips.com - R. F. Potts maintains a page with historical futures price data,
including tables of futures symbols
http://www.teleport.com/~rpotts/prices/prices.html - Rand Financial Services serves the global futures markets.
http://www.rand-usa.com/ - TransWorld Futures offers detailed discussions of futures and
options. Look for the links to Futures 101 and Options 101.
http://www.transworldfutures.com
- Bright Commodity Futures Broker
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Service name: Vision Express, Jtrader, Vision Pro, Talon Web
Commission: $3-$9 for active traders, $10.00 for others
Service fees: 0 fees on most trading platforms
http://www.brightcommoditybroker.com -
Cannon offers assistance in your futures trading, whether you are a
newcomer to the market, an experienced trader, a hedger, or an
institution in the USA or overseas.
http://www.cannontrading.com/- Commodity & Derivative Advisors
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Commodity & Derivative Advisors are a second generation trading
firm with experience ranging from blackboard trading on Jackson St. in
Chicago, to the publishing of electronic trading systems for public
use as well as proprietary algorithms implemented at the firm level.
http://www.commodityandderivativeadv.com - Expo Futures and Options
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features: 24 hr order and support desk, streaming quotes,
daily research, two free proprietary trading
platforms, real time charts, up to the minute news.
http://www.expofutures.com/ - Futuresweb Trading
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Service name: FuturesInvesting.Com
Features: Commodity brokerage firm offers online trading, real time paper trading, and educational resources.
http://www.futuresweb.com - Heritage West Futures Brokers
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Offers full-service online and managed commodity brokerage services,
as well as single stock futures and Forex.
http://www.heritagewestfutures.com/ - Klute Investment Services Inc.
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Features: Services for the agriculture industry and investors
http://www.aginvestor.com/- Linn Group IB Services
- Full service, family run, FCM located in the CBOT. Introducing Broker services include high end technology, quality research and time-tested knowledge of trading futures and options markets.
http://www.linngroupibservices.com/- MyFuturesOnline
- MyFuturesOnline is a commodity broker with services tailored to the individual's future trading needs, regardless of experience level.
http://www.myfuturesonline.com/- Optimus Trading Group
- Optimus Discount Commodity Brokers caters to small and medium capitalized traders who seek advanced technology for execution or automating one's trading. We support NinjaTrader, Strategy Runner and CQG.
http://www.optimusfutures.com/- Orion Futures Group
- http://www.orionfutures.com
- RB&H Financial Services, L.P.
- Features: A full clearing member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange offering full and discount commodity brokerage.
http://www.rbhlp.com/- Sonic Futures & Options
- A discount futures and options brokerage.
http://www.sonicfutures.com/- United Futures Trading
- A futures broker offering 4 online futures trading platforms. Free quotes, charts, market reports. Discount online trading.
http://www.unitedfutures.com/- U.S. Securities and Futures
- http://www.futuresweb.com/