Talk:Position trader (futures)

What to do with this article? Clearly you can take positions in markets other than commodities.

More than that though it is one sentence long, nothing more than a definition, and I can't see how it can grow to be an encyclopedia article. It seems like a natural candidate for merging with a more cohesive article, something about trading positions in general... we also have long and short selling, for example. What do you think? Pcb21| Pete 10:27, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You would probably need to be a proffessional trader to grasp it, but a Position Trader in futures is a very distinct and clear concept to pro's. It differs from the other large categories: Options Trader, Scalper, Day trader, Equities Trader, Arb. It would be related to the types of traders: Prop Trader, Bank, Hedger, Commercial, Hedge Fund, Local. Also as a side note, commodities and futures are not mutually interchangeable words, close but still not generic is the word derivatives. You guys can write your encyclopedia anyway you want, I'm not a encyclopedia writer. Just an ol' Pascal spreader on the short end of the US & Europe yield curve running a prop desk. (That would make me a Position trader.)