Weekend Reads
It’s tax time. We recently published a newsletter explaining how managed futures function when you go to file your taxes, but as you sift through the rest of your financials, here’s some tax-related reading material that will leave you feeling alternately abused and amused… Where your taxes that paid for the bailout went… (Rolling Stone) Top […]
FinViz… Hogs aren’t really up 8% today…
FinViz.com – we love your site, but hope you can get Lean Hogs correct. You are showing them up 8.4% today? That’s odd… the June contract is DOWN -1.73% today. Looks like you are showing the difference between the just expired April contract and the June contract… That is all well and fine, but then […]
A Spoon for Your Alphabet Soup
As members of the National Futures Association, or NFA, everything we publish is reviewed to ensure compliance with regulation. The goal is to make sure the information we present to the public is fair, accurate and well defined. Along the lines of being well defined, the different performance and risk statistics used throughout our website, […]
Is it time to admit the ethanol plan has failed?
Ethanol subsidies have been around since 1979- far before the concept of “green fuel” became popular in American society. In the wake of the 1970’s oil shocks, and even today, the concept was appealing- if we could find a way to decrease our reliance of foreign oil, our carbon footprint and limit pain at the […]
What Does Managed Futures Success Look Like?
We know, we know… we’re late getting the newsletter out. It takes a long time to run the data we just crunched for 16 graphs… We believe you will find it well worth the wait. We heard from a client recently who was down 4% in March and quite upset about it. Never mind that […]
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