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- Making It Big In Commodity Futures Trading
By: Tom Fazio | - For many average investors, commodity futures trading are quite hard to understand and deal with due to a largely complex trading process. However, it is only hard to novel investors. Once you have understood the running concept, you can start counting returns even before you invest your money. This article will give you a few pointers towards that direction.
To make it big in commodity futures trading you must have a broker who is well versed in futures trading or an FCM (Futures ...
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- Learning About Diversification And Managed Futures
By: Jack Landry | - When it comes to investing, many experts advise diversifying your portfolio. This means that you should spread your assets over a variety of different investments.
Many financial experts have said this is the single most important rule you can follow to have a successful portfolio.
Diversifying your portfolio is important because your investment performance should fluctuate less. This means that your gains and losses stay fairly consistent.
It is bet ...
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- How To Invest In Managed Futures And Stocks
By: Jack Landry | - If you want to delve into the financial world of stocks and managed futures there are a few basics things you should know before jumping in.
Stocks and managed futures are one way to invest. Investing is the best way to protect your financial future.
In our world there are two basic ways to earn income. The first is to exchange labor for income or money. The second is to have your money earn more money through investing.
Many maintain that the most te ...
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- Future Options For A Bright Future
By: Richard Nicholson | - The people who firmly believe in making money through stock market, then the terms futures and options are not a very new thing for them. It is very essential that you understand all the basics and tricks of these terms in order to make a huge profit. The importance of these terms has enhanced to a great extent in the last few years. But, making profit through futures and options is not that easy also as it includes a lot of risk as well. But if you handle everything in a very expertised manner; ...
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- Get The Most Out Of Portfolios With Investing And Commodities Trading
By: Jay Ramey | - To address such opportunities and challenges, Triton Capital Advisors, LLC has released its Website to offer an interactive alternative investment platform aimed at high net worth investors, investment advisors and institutions. One of its advanced tactics requires the analysis of return versus risk, as Triton Capital Advisors, LLC assists high net worth individuals with portfolio diversification and construction. Their Website and investing philosophy has been structured to introduce suitable ...
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- Futures Trading Systems Do Serve A Great Purpose
By: Joan Weisman | - Futures Trading Systems are a very essential component of dealing in a forex trading system. Futures derivatives ensure that as per a contract the seller of this derivative passes on this to the buyer on a particular date at a certain price in the future no matter what the reigning price of the commodity ruling the derivative might be on this day. Natural resources can also govern futures. Coffee, currency as bullion, sugar and wheat are all used in future derivatives. An investor in the derivat ...
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- Managed Futures Requires Due Diligence
By: Jack Landry | - Managed futures can be a great way to invest money. When investing, you want to be smart about how you invest, especially when it is your own money.
Due diligence helps you to make a good decision on what company to help you overlook your managed future. Due diligence involves an investigation of a business or person or the inspection of past performance of acts with the hopes that they will maintain a certain standard of care.
It is critical to use due diligence wh ...
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- Complete Futures Trading Systems - The Definitive Interview
By: Jimmy Cox | - An interview on complete futures trading systems. Stuart McPhee quizzes legendary trader Ray Barros.
Ray Barros: Mark Douglas, the guy that taught me many things about trading said that irrespective of our personality, some traders may be subjective where they have set of rules but also have got intuition to play with.
There are the fully mechanical who will follow our rules no matter what, and a discretionary who has no rules. That's fine whatever suits, but the p ...
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- Futures Trading Systems Should Be Used With Caution
By: Joan Weisman | - Today, Futures Trading Systems are becoming all the rage in wake of the huge fluctuations in the stock market along with commodity prices. So, it is essential that you are aware of the workings of this market to get the maximum benefit out of it. Futures Trading Systems are a completely safe form of trading as it is organized under a market association to be governed by its rules. Secondly, the delivery periods during which the holder of the commodity can furnish it to the buyer are specified i ...
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- Understanding The Key Concepts Of Managed Futures
By: Jack Landry | - A managed future is an alternative investment. Managed futures are directed by an industry comprised of professional money managers, called commodity trading advisors.
Commodity trading advisors can refer to an individual or a firm and play a key role in the managed futures process. They receive payment for three main functions they provide investors.
First, they offer advice on options. Second, they manage the futures.
Third, they handle the actua ...
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- Choose A Futures Trading System After Some Deliberation
By: Joan Weisman | - Futures Trading Systems are getting quite popular these days. In fact, it has become one of the most lucrative ways to earn money in foreign exchange. But here the waters are ridden with dangers, so you should be careful before treading into them. A Futures Trading Systems can really serve as the real guide to you helping you to carry out transactions quite smoothly. In future contracts, the buyer are supposed to buy the commodity from the trader at a pre-determined price at a particular date in ...
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- Get The Most Out Of Portfolios With Investing And Commodities Trading
By: Jay Ramey | - Alternative Investments, also known as Hedge Funds , were originally developed to allow an investor to both purchase and short sell equities. There are many categories of alternative investments to include managed futures. Finding and researching alternative investments, like managed futures, is a challenge for investors because it is difficult to determine precise returns, and it is also difficult to assess the returns, even when alternative investments are entirely transparent.
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- Futures Trading System: - Future Contract
By: Joan Weisman | - There are different types of contracts available in the trading system, and futures trading systems is popular among the investors. Future contract is defined as buying/selling commodity or any companys share value specifying certain time period with respect to the assumption of future price. Most of the buying/selling in future contracts is carried out through stock exchanges. Future contracts are not considered as a direct derivative like normal stock holding, purchasing land but they a ...
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- The Role Of Due Diligence In Managed Futures
By: Jack Landry | - Due diligence involves either an investigation of a business or person, or the performance of an act with a certain standard of care. It is critical to do this when thinking of adding money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit.
Managed futures are all about having your money directed by a money manager in the global markets. When dealing with managed futures, due diligence is an absolute must.
Thoroughly researching the company will help incre ...
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- Day Trading & Stock Trading Companies And Strategies
By: Day Trading | - DAY Trading train traders and investors for day trade and invest successfully in stocks, futures and commodities for short-term and long-term trading success. We teach people to gain our proprietary models that have generated consistent returns over a long period of time. We help you understand our proprietary day trading strategies and models. Our strategies are very mechanical and the steps to follow are crystal clear if you follow the rules. We have been successful with the recent volatility ...
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 E-Mini Player: EMini S&P 500 Futures Trading Journal: Key Levels and Scenarios (S&P 500) for Tuesday 12/01/2009 Shared By: eminiplayer - My trading journal/diary documenting my trades and method utilizing Price Action, Market... and Volume Analysis of the E-Mini S&P 500 Futures. Key...
 ADP Jitters Stall Futures Shared By: dollrealestate - U.S. stock futures slipped slightly into the red Wednesday morning following the report of a bigger-than-expected monthly drop in private-sector jobs.
 Wheat, corn, oats, soybeans fall on the Chicago Board of Trade; beef, pork futures mixed Shared By: sfnewsnow - Meanwhile, beef and pork futures traded mixed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. February live cattle shed 0.55 cent to 84.27 cents a pound; January...
 Chicago Climate Exchange Shared By: TheFlaCracker - Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE) is a landmark derivatives exchange that currently offers standardized and cleared futures and options contracts...
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- Learning About Managed Futures Is A Good Investment
By: Jack Landry | - What is a managed future? A managed future is a form of alternative investment, similar to a mutual fund.
They are directed by an industry comprised of professional money managers, called commodity trading advisors. Commodity trading advisors supervise client assets on a discretionary basis using global futures markets as their main investment medium.
A commodity trading advisor is an individual or a firm that receives profit for offering advice on options, future ...
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- Insuring (ensuring) Margins And Gauranteeing Futures
By: Joan Weisman | - The Futures Trading Systems exchange and its members guarantee all trade, as all the parties involved in the transaction are required to place Performance Bonds Margins (PBM). PBM are financial guarantees placed by the buyers and sellers which ensure fulfillment of all obligations.
Before initiating a contract, the buyer and seller have to post an Initial Margin Requirement or Fund (IRM/IMF). IMF is the amount of money a firm must have in advance in its account with the clearing ag ...
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- Options Trading
By: Tis Amit | - If you are one of those who want to gain huge profits from stock options, then it is very important for you to understand the meaning of option trading. At times it can be difficult to learn the exact difference between trading in the stock market and trading in the stock options market. In fact option markets are parallel to futures markets, that give you the right as a holder to buy or sell the underlying commodity for a specific price on (European options) or before (US options) a specific da ...
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- Futures Trading Lesson On The Psychology Of Price Breakouts
By: Tom Fazio | - Futures prices are not all that different from general human behavior. And I suppose since market prices reflect the collective thoughts of countless investors, then that explains it. Being aware of this fact does offer the investor a few advantages in futures trading, as understanding human psychology will often pay off when trading.
All of us get into certain thought patterns. Sometimes we feel like everything is going our way and we're on cloud nine. Other times we feel lik ...
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- Learn To Trade Futures: Master The Mind, Master The Markets
By: Renard Morse | - Why is it that most traders lose money? Statistics claim 90% of day traders fail; but what makes the other 10% successful? There are differences, and although some of those differences may seem small, they make all the difference.
What most people fail to understand about day trading is that 90% of their success depends on their individual psychological perspective of the market, and only 10% depends on how much they know about the market, news, and the strategy they are using. ...
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- Learn To Trade Futures: Ultimate Home Business
By: Renard Morse | - Todays economic times bring a lot of uncertainty with increasing job losses, credit tightening, and consumer prices on the rise, but despite the stock markets unpredictability, day trading futures can still be extremely profitable . In fact, with the right strategy, there may not be a better time to learn to trade futures.
Many people dont understand that you can actually make money when the market goes down as well as up. Understanding the concept of shorting all ...
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- Commodity Options Trading
By: gisel | - Commodity futures trading simply involve the exchange of all the primary products. It can also be related to buying and selling of all the future contracts in Silver, Gold, Oil, Copper, Zinc, Wheat or any of the physical products you can think of. These commodities are simply bought and sold in standardized contracts. These commodity options trading products are uniform as one of its fraction serves the same purpose as the other.
So, a barrel of oil or an ounce of gold or silver o ...
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- An Introduction To Forex Futures
By: Donald Ogilve | - There are two general ways to trade Foreign Exchange, Spot Forex and Forex Futures. While both involve the buying and selling of currency pairs, there are differences in how the trades are executed, and the framework for execution. Spot Forex has always been more accessible, but dealings with Forex Futures are now becoming more and more common. Thus, it is important for people who are learning about forex trading, along with active forex traders, to understand the distinction.
Whe ...
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- Coffee Futures And The Commitment Of Traders
By: Tom Fazio | - The Commitment of Traders report, for those who don't know, is a report detailing the positions of the three different trader groups in commodity trading. Those groups are made up of small independent traders like me, large institutional traders and hedge funds, and commercial traders who are not speculating but are actually using the futures markets to hedge their crops or forward sell product.
The relative positions held be these three trader groups is all the long term trade ...
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- Best Online Futures Broker
By: Praveen Ortec | - If you are in the trading arena for a while, you should know that executing trades was never been so easier and faster before than now. Online brokers have already made a great difference in trading of financial instruments; the most noticeable of all these differences is the fact that online brokers have made trading popular among common man (we call them now retail traders). All of a sudden traders realize that they can have all the access, tools, power that equal institutional and professiona ...
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- Options Trading - Futures Option Trading - Options Investing 501
By: optionstradingdomain | - The International Securities Exchange (ISE) and Boston Options Exchange (BOX) are included in the electronic marketplaces. However you also run the risk that the stock will continue to fly upwards and you miss out on that profit. There are two basic types of Forex options available to retail traders. Online stock option trading follows the same rules as any options trading. Self discipline, confidence, the ability to see the bigger picture, accepting losses as part of the game, controlling your ...
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- How To Trade Futures
By: Eric J Ken | - Education is the key to success in life. If you wish to learn how to trade futures, you need to move in that direction by educating yourself on how it is done. Some of most important traits for trading futures are:
1.Desire to succeed as a futures trader There is a specific type of people who can trade futures. Its not a business that everyone can be successful at. You need to be willing to learn, be ready to jump at an opportunity, and have the ability to take risks. And, ...
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- Trading Futures
By: Eric J Ken | - Today, trading futures is one of the best and most profitable financial investment methods. Of course, trading on the stock market is not for the faint hearted. You need to be strong, have the ability to take risks, as well as have the emotional strength to overcome a significant loss. A highly leveraged market, the trading futures market doesnt discriminate and offers everyone an even playing ground to try their luck. From Warren Buffet to Donald Trump to others, trading futures is a profita ...
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- The Futures Trading Success Ladder
By: Bill McCready | - First Rung: The Education Of A Trader
Becoming a successful futures trader doesn't happen overnight. You don't read a book and Voila! another successful futures trader dazzles Wall Street. It would be nice, but it's just not going to happen. Once you decide to become a futures trader there's a lot of hard work ahead.
You may already be reading and visiting internet sites or participating in a local traders club. These are great places to start your education. You'll ...
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- Futures Traders Practicing For Success
By: Bill McCready | - "Practice makes perfect," my mother used to say. It's as true of futures trading as of anything else. Before you put your hard-earned cash on the line, you need to practice trading if you want to succeed as a futures trader.
Making practice trades allows you to:
1. Test and fine-tune your trading system.
2. Learn to successfully pull the trigger.
3. Perfect your charting system.
4. Develop productive trading habits.
5. Practice self-disci ...
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- Option Trading Software - Futures Trading - Options Trading Charts 622
By: optionstradingdomain | - It says to me, you're more interested in getting money than really helping me. If the option is set to expire on Friday, then the trader must be prepared to deal with that timeline. Another option to trade a stock is the over-the-counter (OTC) trading, which is the opposite of exchange trading occurring in option exchanges or futures exchanges. Self discipline, confidence, the ability to see the bigger picture, accepting losses as part of the game, controlling your fear and greed - all of thes ...
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- Fundamentals Of Futures Trading
By: Jim Olivero | - A contract, which is usually an agreement between two parties to buy and sell an asset at a specified time at a specified price, is known as futures trading. Futures trading is generally carried out on a futures exchange. A futures contract has a standardized date and month of delivery, price and quantity. There are mainly two types of futures trading contracts available in a futures market as those require a physical delivery and those require a cash settlement. The contracts which require a ph ...
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- Successful Futures Traders Hone Mind, Body
By: Bill McCready | - THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL
Just as a craftsman keeps his tools sharp, clean and well organized, so must a futures trader keep his "tools" in peak operating condition. A futures trader's ultimate tools are his mind and his body. Yes, we use systems, triggers, indicators, charts and other tools and tactics -- all important. But without the human trigger they are useless. If you do not take care of your physical and mental self and keep yourself in peak trading conditi ...
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- Sure-fire Futures Trader Money Loser - Negative Personality Traits
By: Bill McCready | - There are certain psychological characteristics that can negatively impact your ability to succeed as a futures trader. Learn to recognize these behaviors in yourself and guard against them.
THE CHEAPSKATE TRADER
Many people are foolishly cheap. They are so anxious to start trading on the futures markets that they ignore the necessity of first acquiring the proper education, tools and software to succeed. These people will lose more money in their first round of trades than ...
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- Futures Trading Methods: Are You A Scalper Or A Swing Trader?
By: Bill McCready | - Futures traders come in all flavors but it's basically a Neapolitan world. You can be a scalper, swing trader or a combination trader. Mindset and methodology generally determine in which sector of the futures trading world you'll thrive.
SCALPERS
Scalpers seek immediate gratification. They look for short-term market movements seeking to shave money off the bid/ask price spread. Holding each position for only a very short period of time (often 5-30 minutes) to minimize risk ...
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- The Four Key Elements Of Futures Trading Success
By: Bill McCready | - There are four key elements to achieving success as a futures trader:
1. Self-confidence
2. Discipline
3. Ability to handle loss
4. Profitable trading system
1. Self-confidence
If you aren't absolutely confident that you can become a successful futures trader, you might as well pack it in now and save yourself a lot of grief. Successful futures traders are bold, aggressive and self-assured. They do not lose faith in themselves whe ...
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- Currency Futures Trading Euro, Yen, Swiss
By: Chad Sullivans | - Currency Futures Trading is done on the basis of the futures of a pair if currencies based on a standardized Currency Futures contract. The commodity bought and sold is a pair of currencies. The amount expiry time and exchange rates are standardized.
Currency Futures Trading is done under a legally binding contract. It obligates trade in two particular currencies at the current exchange rate. The trader can either own the currency at the time the currency is written or ...
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- Chart Financial Futures
By: Chad Sullivans | - Financial Futures has been the harbinger of better futures for market trends ever since its regularization by the establishment of the Chicago Board of Trade.
Financial Futures has been the harbinger of better futures for market trends ever since its regularization by the establishment of the Chicago Board of Trade.
Futures trading are a concept by which traders contract to buy specific quantities of a commodity or financial instrument at a specified price wit ...
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- Are You Trading Stocks, Futures Or Forex In '3d' Or '2d'?
By: DeanTW | - An example of this was when I received an email from someone stating that one of his students was consistently making 1000 pips a month trading forex (for stock, options and futures traders, in forex country this is a lot of pips!).
What I thought immediately after reading this was so what'! Now don't get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for this guy sending me the email, but it reinforces a belief I have that too many traders see trading as 2 dimensional. Let me ...
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- Reasons To Not Invest In Crude Oil Futures Prices
By: Mayoor Patel | - Many people are of the opinion that investing in crude oil futures prices is a very sound financial decision. However, there are also a number of reasons why investing in something else may be a better fit for you and your situation. Here are some thoughts that may help you decide if oil is where you really want to invest.
One of the major points to consider when making an investment is what type of impact that investment may have on the future of your family and your community. F ...
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- Online Futures Trading For Novices
By: Bob Miles | - Futures trading, like any lucrative earning opportunity, involves high risks. Online futures trading is no different - its convenience tempts many people to treat trading like a Vegas casino instead of a legitimate investing opportunity. With this in mind, following are some pointers on succeeding in the online futures trading jungle:
Are you a long-term investor or a day trader? If you decide you're a day trader, then keep up with your trading account on an hourly basis. If you d ...
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- An Introduction To Futures Contracts
By: Praveen Ortec | - Today futures trading is the most common type of derivative trading, done through centralized exchanges all over the world. It is the trading of futures contracts, which gives the holder the ability to purchase the underlying product for a set price after a definite time period. The major purpose of creating features contract is to overcome the price fall in the actual product delivery time by ensuring the present day price (or around that). Today there are mainly two broad types of futures cont ...
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- Understanding Technical Analysis Of Stocks, Futures And Commodities
By: Rockford Tapscott | - Understanding what the chart patterns of stocks, futures and commodities are telling you (usually called Technical Analysis) can be a valuable tool in determining the trend of any market and assisting with entry and exit levels for your trades.
The goal of technical analysis in the stock, futures or commodities market is to help us determine when a market is trending, and when it is not. If a stock or futures contract we want to trade is trending, then we want to be on board. If i ...
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- 4 Main Risks Involved In Futures Trading
By: Ricky Lim | - There's no doubt that futures trading is inherently a risky business. Anyone who tells you it is 100% risk free is either ignorant or trying to sell you something. The truth is futures trading is a gamble. There's no telling when you are going to win or when you are going to lose. The best strategy is to play this game based on the cards you have and hope for the best.
Futures trading does have huge rewards if you win and that's probably the reason many people are attracted to it. ...
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- Understanding Futures Trading
By: Sue Jan | - Many people have the notion that commodity futures trading is very difficult to understand. It may only seem difficult when you are new to futures trading, but once you understand the inner workings and get a hang of it, you will be well on your way to success.
People have a common misconception that commodity exchanges determine or establish the prices at which commodity futures are bought and sold. This is not true. Prices are determined by supply and demand conditions. Just kee ...
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- Why You Should Consider Trading Futures
By: John Forman | - One of the least understood financial markets is the one for futures. That is in part a function of the fact that for many years it has been referred to as commodity futures, which has no doubt turned many would-be traders away, folks who dont have any interest in things like Pork Bellies and Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice (to include a few from the popular Trading Places film). The other factor is the perceived complexity of the futures market. The fact of the matter, though, is that ...
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