Ice Heats Up Crude Oil Exchange Competition
Last week, we took a look at the somewhat unique situation of WTI Crude Futures being in Contango while their near identical twin, Brent Crude Futures were in backwardation; and now a recent article from the Wall Street Journal (you can see the full text here) highlighted an interesting consequence of these pricing anomalies – […]
Rydex and Wisdom Tree Managed Futures Products- June 2011
With June’s estimates in, it’s time to take a look at how managed futures stacked up against Rydex’s Managed Futures Fund and Wisdom Tree’s Managed Futures ETF. We’ve made our grievances with them clear several times over (see here and here), but prefer to let the data speak for itself. *[YTD Data starts as of 1/06/2011, first day […]
London CTA Expo Update
Some of the CTAs that Attain’s Juan Carlos Herrera has caught up with at the London CTA Expo show just how diverse strategies within managed futures can be. James River, Emil Van Essen and Dominion Capital are all there, and all three do very different things. How so? Emil Van Essen focuses on the spread […]
Greetings from London!
Houston-based Attain team member Juan Carlos Herrera is representing us well across the pond this week as he attends the London CTA Expo. While the event kicks off tomorrow, Juan Carlos attended a special networking event today called Sungard City Days. The topics of conversation today centered on “emerging” markets and financial regulation. The emerging […]
ETFs v. Cash and Futures YTD
The past month has served as yet another good example of why to invest in futures contracts instead of ETFs. Not only have ETFs continued their streak of underperforming futures contracts, but in the case of corn, in particular, fell miserably short of returns generated by futures contracts. We still haven’t heard a good answer […]
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