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.)