How do you lose 11% of your corn stocks?
Corn just got cheap. Well, at least relatively speaking. After months of prices edging higher on increasingly dismal stock and planting reports, investors got quite a shock today when a monthly report indicated that corn stocks were 11% larger than expected, and corn sowing was 2% above what analysts had predicted. All of a sudden, […]
Officiating Today’s Game – the NFA and CFTC
You may, on occasion, hear us refer to the NFA or CFTC in our writing, but aside from a jumble of letters, what are these organizations and what do they do? The answer is simple: they work to ensure legal and ethical standards are upheld across the industry. In 1974, Congress passed the Commodity Futures […]
Contango, Backwardation and Relative Value in Brent and WTI Crude Oil
After hearing a manager last week talk about their trade of shorting the negative roll yield WTI Crude futures (West Texas Intermediate grade Crude Oil – aka Crude Oil as we know it here in the US) and going long the less negative to positive roll yield Brent Crude futures, our curiosity got the better […]
Managed Futures Spotlight: Quantum Leap Capital
This week’s managed futures spotlight belongs to none other than Quantum Leap Capital. It is not often you meet a CTA from Mexico- never mind a CTA that also built a world class visual effects studio (also in Mexico) that won an Oscar for its work on the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Today, […]
MFA Conference Reflections
Another MFA conference has come and gone, and we can’t help but feel as though this time around was decidedly different from the MFAs of yesteryear. The feel of the event was unique, but not really quantifiable. What were the takeaways? The emergence of new traders from Wall Street proprietary desks. We’ve found a surge […]
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