Managed Futures Week in Review for the week of February 14th
In lieu of our newsletter which did not run yesterday due to President’s day we are posting our normal week in review on the blog. Also – we are thinking of making this a permanent feature of the blog, so please feel free to give us your feedback and let us know what you think. […]
Is $100 Crude Oil Good for Managed Futures?
Historically, a rapid increase in oil prices is a leading indicator of a pending world crisis. From the oil embargo of 1973, the 1982 Iraq/Iran war, Desert Storm, as well as the Economic Recession of 2008; all of these periods featured a significant increase in crude oil prices. Now with April Crude Oil futures rapidly […]
What contango unwinding looks like…
While there has been much written about Crude Oil’s spike above $100 on the back of the news out of Libya, we haven’t seen much on what the spike has meant for the entire Crude “curve”, meaning the further out contract months (Crude has open interest all the way out to the December 2019 contract) […]
Weekend Reads
What a wild week, with Crude moving $13 higher at one point – only to drop $6 off its high. Wheat falling nearly 15% at its lows, only to rebound about 5%, and stocks taking it on the chin before rebounding today. Here’s what we’re reading heading into the weekend: Weekend Reads: The business of […]
Managed Futures up +0.85% to +1.25% in February
With the digital ink barely dry on the last trades of the month, we’re scanning the managers we follow on a daily basis – then extrapolating that onto the Newedge CTA index month to date return of +0.77% as of last Friday – to estimate that managed futures as an asset class finished February on […]
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