Uncle Ti 88

MF Global Singapore was suspended by SGX this week and this caused open positions held by some CFD traders of AmFraser, Kim Eng, CIMB accounts to be frozen. MF Global Singapore is the counterparty. Some traders will also be trading with MF Global. So the question for the trader is do I liquidate the positions or transfer the positions to another broker? Larry Williams in his email to his readers suggested to liquidate the positions instead. Why? Because MF Global might be short on cash. They can transfer your positions to another broker but will they also transfer the cash to support that position? No cash to support that position = margin call...

If you are interested to know more the basics of of the Commitments of Traders Report (COT Proxy) you can visit Larry's website here http://www.ireallytrade.com/ or straight to the COT Proxy page here http://www.ireallytrade.com/cotreport.html

For those of you not familiar with the Commitments of Traders Report, COT Proxy, you might want to check out this website Larry Williams Picture Perfect Trading for a brief introduction. I attended one of his Picture Perfect courses a few years ago and this was one of the things he touched on. The COT report is released by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission where they show the open positions of traders for futures contracts. For stocks and other instruments there is no such COT report released so what the proxy has done is to simulate/gauge the open positions of these traders.

Now what do we do about other instruments that do not have the Commitments of Traders Report released like stocks, ETFs, etc? We can create our very own proxy! With this proxy you can see what the "commercials and speculators" are doing for stocks, ETFs and CFDs. I got to know about COT proxy when I attended Larry Williams trading course in Australia many years ago. Immediately saw the power of using it for trading any instruments without the real COT report. Now the question comes, how can we be certain the COT Proxy works exactly or closely as the real COT Report? To test this we have to compare it from the real COT to the COT Proxy in a side by side comparison. The move must be in unison. Let's see it in the next post!