Sentence examples for index traders from inspiring English sources

The report recommends that the commission revoke those waivers and subject index traders to the limits imposed on other speculators.

Gordon Stopp, a sheep and crop farmer near Adelaide, said he found the self-professed index traders "a bit amateurish" during the sign-up phase.

The commission said it would also review trading practices for index traders to ensure they are not "adversely impacting the price discovery process, and to determine whether different practices should be employed".

A year ago, Mr. Holder named a working group on oil and gas price fraud, telling it to "explore whether there is any evidence of manipulation of oil and gas prices" and to evaluate "the role of speculators and index traders".

"The Commission is committed to ensuring that our agricultural futures markets function properly in their risk-management and price discovery roles," the CFTC said, adding, "there are several steps it can take to improve oversight of the futures markets and bring greater transparency and scrutiny to the types of traders in the marketplace, including large index traders".

As Will Hedden, IG Index trader, said to Reuters: Everything Goldman touches turns to gold, supposedly.

"Nobody expected this period to be quite that dead," Jamie Tyrrell, a VIX index trader, said.

Christopher Finora, an index trader at TD Newcrest, a unit of Toronto-Dominion Bank, in Toronto, said that inclusion in a major index confers another benefit that the seven dropped stocks stand to lose: greater liquidity, because of higher trading volumes and narrower spreads between bid and asked prices.

Just last month, France's second-largest bank, Société Générale unveiled a $7 billion loss from what it said were unauthorized trades put on by a 31-year-old index trader named Jerome Kerviel.

Investors reacted with aplomb Thursday to the revelation that French bank Societe Generale had $10 billion of losses, the combination of a mind-boggling $7 billion fraud on the part of a single stock-index trader in Paris and $3 billion in subprime exposure.

The index allowed traders to bet on or against pools of mortgages with different risk characteristics, just as stock indexes enable traders to bet on whether the overall stock market, or technology stocks or bank stocks, will go up or down.