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What is margin?
What is hedging?
What is a tick?

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Futures Calendar

Week of 8/30/2010

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
30 3:00: NBNZ Business Confidence 10:45: Building Permits MoM 1:00: HIA New Home Sales (MoM) 1:30: Inventories 9:00: Business Climate Indicator 12:30: Current Account (BOP) 12:30: PCE Core (YoY) 2:30: Dallas Fed Manf. Activity 11:01: GfK Consumer Confidence Survey 11:15: Nomura/JMMA Manufacturing PM 11:50: Retail Trade YoY	31 1:30: Current Account Balance 11:30: AiG Performance of Mfg Index 1:30: Labor Cash Earnings YoY 4:00: Vehicle Production (YoY) 5:00: Housing Starts (YoY) 7:55: Unemployment Change (000's) 8:30: M4 Money Supply (YoY) 9:00: Euro-Zone CPI Estimate (YoY) 12:30: GDP MoM 1:00: S&P/CS Composite-20 YoY 1:45: Chicago Purchasing Manager 2:00: NAPM-Milwaukee 6:00: MInutes of FOMC Meeting 8:15: Bloomberg FCI Monthly 9:00: ABC Consumer Confidence 7:30: Business Confidence 8:00: Retail Sales s.a. (MoM) 9:00: CPI - EU Harmonized (MoM) 10:00: Unemployment Rates (SA)	1 3:00: ANZ Commodity Price 1:30: GDP (YoY) 6:30: RBA Commodity Index SDR YoY% 5:00: Vehicle Sales (YoY) 7:55: PMI Manufacturing 8:00: PMI Manufacturing 8:30: PMI Manufacturing 11:30: Challenger Job Cuts YoY 12:15: ADP Employment Changes 2:00: ISM Manufacturing 2:00: ISM Price Paid 9:00: Domestic Vehicle Sales 11:50: Monetary Base (YoY) 6:00: Retail Sales (MoM) 11:00: MBA Mortage Applications	2 1:30: Trade Balance 11:30: AiG Performance of Service Index 8:30: PMI Construction 9:00: Euro-Zone Gross Fix Cap (QoQ) 9:00: Euro-Zone GDP s.a (QoQ) 11:45: ECB Announces Interest Rates 12:30: Initial Jobless Claims 12:30: Continuing Claims 2:00: Factory Orders 2:00: Pending Home Sales MoM 6:00: Nat'wide House Prices Sa (MoM) 11:50: Capital Spending 2:30: ICSC Chain Store Sales YoY	3 7:55: PMI Services 8:00: PMI Services 8:30: PMI Services 9:00: Euro-Zone Retail Sales (YoY) 12:30: Change in Nonfarm Payrolls 12:30: Unemployment Rate 2:00: ISM Non-Manf. Composite