Profits for the world's largest independent energy trader rose by 25 per cent last year, despite turbulent crude oil prices.

A rise of more than 5 per cent in natural gas prices had nothing to do with allegations of price-rigging by energy traders.

The surging coal price has several causes, analysts and energy traders say.

In particular, he said, there was robust demand for risk managers, legal and tax experts and energy traders.

Insiders say that energy traders are simply better at playing volatility.

In its 14th-century heyday, it was a city of more than a million people, with 5,000 foreign traders and emissaries.

The trade was lucrative, but foreign traders were social and political inferiors, with no guarantees for their lives, property, or rights of trade or residence.

The port was opened to foreign traders in 1792.

The area was a historical site for foreign traders given the connection by the canals and the museum has much content reflecting this.

Others acted as middlemen merchants (functioning more or less in the nature of agency house) for foreign traders engaged in export-import activities.

It comes after an oil trader said the market was 'manipulated daily' to keep pump prices artificially high.

It started as an oil trader but now transports, stores and supplies fuel to garage forecourts nationwide.

After all, as a former oil trader, he has in-depth experience of the swings and roundabouts of the opaque world of commodity prices.

Last week, we revealed how an anonymous oil trader claimed greedy oil giants were 'manipulating' prices and ripping people off daily.

The world's largest oil trader, earned $1.35 billion last year as it profited from increased volatility in energy markets.

Today's annual results for the online trader are expected to remain healthy - it reckons that trading revenues will have been about 565 million, up on last year's 491 million.

Online traders were required to collect sales tax only in states where they had physical operations.

But it was during the 1980s that online traders honed their skills and began to attract more substantial clients.

The new law will force online traders to collect sales taxes and send them to state or local governments, based on where their customers live.

Tax officials are clamping down on small online traders that underpay tax.

But the market turbulence brought a dividend for futures and options traders.

Moderately bearish options traders usually set a target price for the expected decline and utilize bear spreads to reduce cost.

For some option traders, open interest indicates the intensity of trading in a financial instrument.

He later became an options trader.

Quite often, non-professional option traders may not understand the benefit of exercising a call option early, and therefore may unintentionally forgo the value of the dividend.

Ask a share trader why prices are falling and you'll get as many answers as there are burnt investors.

This could happen if, for example, you were a professional stockbroker or share trader, in which case your spread-betting profits would probably be taxable.

The taxpayer needs to determine whether they fall into the category of a share trader or not.

Share traders were cheered by tone of the statement, lifting the shares almost 11.6 per cent higher, or 45¼p, 435p.

It's a phenomenon that has been puzzling share traders for months.

Like a street trader with a barrow full of iffy goods, it dare not sell too much for fear people will ask questions.

People rather buy from the street traders than coming to us at the market.

A book named after street traders who sold salt has won a 10,000 poetry prize.

Within a month, a great wave of street traders had swamped the city centre, occupying virtually every paving slab, inflating the numbers from perhaps 2,000 to 20,000.

Festival dealers are especially dodgy since they're less likely to bump into customers again than street traders.

Again, the carbon traders buy and sell the resulting credits.

At the extreme end of the spectrum high frequency traders buy and sell stocks in fractions of a second.

Traders buy with the specific intention of selling.