by Michael Cohen We live in a world where the internet is both advanced and necessary to accomplish the simplest tasks — banking, stock market, news, up-to-the-minute weather, mail, etc. It is not just about socialization and emails anymore. The internet is home to one of the fast growing online markets called ‘online trading.’ This field is far reaching and up to the minute so that the trader can make decisions ‘in the here and now’ without the broker in the middle. No longer does it take a fe

Permits for America’s first carbon cap-and-trade scheme will go on the auction block on Thursday this week. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) will auction permits for some 188 million tons of carbon emissions for 2009. At the start of the year, power plants in the 10 participating states will be required to buy a permit for every ton of carbon they emit, either through this auction or thereafter on the open market. Traders started trading futures and options for RGGI (say “Reggie”