Derek Frey, Head Trader at Odom & Frey Futures Options and FOREX, will walk you through his weekly FOREX newsletter and offer you extensive insight into how, where, and why he feels the currency markets will move for the week ahead. The great part about this is, it is an open session in which he will answer any and all market related questions, giving you the chance to pick the brain of an experienced trader.Derek has been trading for over 15 years and specializes in Options. He has been a regular contributor here at FXstreet.com since 2004.Join him free and find out why traders around the world listen to his opinion every week.

Who is Derek Frey? Derek Frey has been a futures trader since 1989 and is Head Trader and partner at Odom & Frey Futures & Options, a firm that specializes in high probability, defined risk option spread trades for the futures markets.

2nd Annual Cayman Islands Conference: Hedge Fund Best Practices

Marran Ogilvie is a Partner, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Ramius Capital Group, LLC. Ms. Ogilvie is also a member of the Senior Management Committee. Ms. Ogilvie joined Ramius in 1994, was appointed as its General Counsel in 1997 and as its Chief Operating Officer in 2007. She oversees the Firm's infrastructure areas which include legal, compliance, accounting, operations, technology and human resources. She is also involved in the strategic decision-making for Ramius products and its business. Ms. Ogilvie is NASD licensed as a Financial and Operations Principal, General Securities Principal, Municipal Securities Principal, Registered Options Principal, General Securities Representative, Commodity Futures Representative and Registered Equity Trader. In addition, she is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association.

TradeKing CEO to Offer Perspective on the Growing Opportunity in ...

BOCA RATON, Fla., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- TradeKing (www.tradeking.com), a nationally licensed online broker dealer, today announced that its Chairman and CEO Donato Montanaro will be a featured speaker on "The Retail Business" panel during the 23rd Annual Futures and Options Expo taking place November 27-29 in Chicago. Montanaro and the panel participants will discuss the growth of options trading among individual investors and the various approaches brokerage firms are taking to offering options to the retail trader, comparing traditional business models with those of new entrants. He will be joined on his panel by brokerage executives from TD Ameritrade, Merrill Lynch, Optionshouse and OptionsXpress.

For more information, visit: http://www.futuresindustry.org/expo-2007.asp.

Using CCI and Stochastics For Long and Short Term Forex Trading

Sam Seiden brings over 15 years experience of equities and futures trading which began when he was on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He has traded equities, futures, interest rate markets, forex, options, and commodities for his personal interests for years and has educated hundreds of traders and investors through seminars and daily advisory services both domestically and internationally.

Sam has been involved in the markets since 1991 both on and off the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He has served as the Director of Technical Research for two trading firms and regularly contributes articles to industry publications. Sam is known for his trading, technical research, and educational guidance.

Software instructions HotComm is the multimedia communication tool we will be using to host our New Live Market and Education Sessions.

Grain shoots higher on USDA reports

Washington, D.C. Commodity prices shot higher today after the government reported that demand for grain is staying strong and last years corn harvest was smaller than previously thought.

The U.S. Agriculture Departments final crop report for 2007 put corn production at 13.1 billion bushels, down 1 percent from the November estimate.

Meanwhile, the government raised its estimate of how much of the corn crop will be used for livestock feed by 300 million bushels. That was the big surprise, the shocker, Don Roose, president of U.S. Commodities Inc.

The report suggests livestock farms are not reducing production despite the soaring cost of feed, he said.

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Republicans may be under fire for anti-gay hypocrisy, but their anti-government hypocrisy is still going strong.

Idahoans will happily accept the loss of Craig's clout if it means the loss of Craig's cloud. That way, residents could get back to celebrating Thursday night's season-opening victory by 24th-ranked Boise State, which has the longest winning streak in the country. After this week, folks are even looking forward to Saturday's mismatch between top-ranked Southern California and the University of Idaho, whose coach wrote "113" on the chalkboard to motivate a team ranked 113th out of 121 Division 1-A football schools. Most Idahoans feel the way the Vandal defense will feel when the Trojans are through Saturday—not sure what all that was about, but glad to have it over.

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CME bid spurs fears of merger monster

THE commodities boom is intensifying the merger mania among the world's financial exchanges. But the $US11 billion ($12.4 billion) bid by CME Group to acquire Nymex Holdings may fuel worries that consolidation is leaving the survivors with too much power.

The deal also highlights some unsettling consequences of the global scramble for alliances and market share in trading financial securities.

The Qualifier − Support (demand) and Resistance (supply)

Last week, we looked at indicators and oscillators and wrapped some very logical rules around them. We did this because if you take every buy and sell signal an indicator produces, your trading career is guaranteed to be short lived. It is not that the indicator is not working properly, they always work exactly as they are programmed to work. The issue is that most traders don't use indicators properly. Today, we will apply some more simple yet important logic to conventional chart patterns.

There are many chart patterns such as Triangles, Flags, Pennants, The Cup and Handle, The Head and Shoulders, and many more. While I chose to stick to pure demand (support) and supply (resistance) in my trading, many new traders like these conventional chart patterns. One thing all these patterns have in common is that the entries are all "breakouts".