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William Gallwas is responsible for Striker's marketing, research, vendor network, and compliance activities. He is the firm's Financial & Options Principal, Stock-Futures Principal, and General Principal. His licenses include: Series 3, Series 4, Series 7, Series 24, Series 27, and Series 63. William learned the futures business from the 'ground up', starting as a clerk at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and later moving to The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). He is a member of the MidAmerica Commodity Exchange and a past member of the CBOT. He works out of the exchange building.

Turn commodity volatility to your advantage

Many commodities are still surging as Deutsche Bank AG has predicted these markets will continue to attract capital thanks to emerging market demand and investor inflation risk hedging; Morgan Stanley is predicting further bullish action in soybeans and corn, even as drought in northern China, the country’s breadbasket, is putting pressure on global wheat prices. [...] - Read More

Posted in Financial Futures | Market Analysis at 4:20 pm on May 6, 2011

America’s Greatest Achievement? Capitalism

What is America’s greatest achievement? by William Gallwas, President of Striker Securities, Inc. We hear a lot from the Middle East and Africa today, with people in the streets marching for individual rights, for freedom and for liberty, but wishing for these things won’t bring them about – neither for the individual, nor for a [...] - Read More

Posted in Currency Futures | Financial Futures | Market Analysis | Metal Futures at 8:43 pm on May 5, 2011

London and the future of food systems

Feeding the City – London and the future of food systems The London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games has called it “the largest peacetime catering operation in the world”. Britain’s 2012 Summer Games will require herculean quantities of food. According to the Committee, the Olympic village is promising to serve athletes, workers and guests [...] - Read More

Posted in Energy Futures | Grain Futures | Market Analysis | Meat Futures | Softs Futures at 8:42 pm on February 25, 2011

The Year of the (paper) Tiger: resource issues could slow China’s ascent

“The great difference between our western Christian world and the atheistic Communist world is not political, gentlemen, it is moral”, US senator Joseph McCarthy told an assembled crowd in Wheeling, West Virginia in February of 1950. “Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism [...] - Read More

Posted in Energy Futures | Financial Futures | Grain Futures | Indices Futures | Market Analysis at 1:07 pm on February 16, 2011

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