Oil Contango Continues To Hurt Index Funds; Helps Calendar Spread Traders
The contango conditions in Crude Oil futures that have been a real hindrance to commodity ETF’s (USO for example) continued to widen in August according to a recent Bloomberg article. Contango is little more than a fancy word for explaining a futures contract curve where the further out contract months are more expensive than the […]
CFTC finally wakes up on Forex Regulation
The CFTC finally made a common sense rule on Forex this past week – saying that if you are soliciting accounts to trade forex, you have to be registered to sell forex accounts. What a ground breaking idea (heavy sarcasm). Here’s the release. For those of us who have to be registered to sell stocks, […]
The Emerging Manager Conundrum:
Finding up and coming talent (investments) is a tough task in any asset class, and not unique to just emerging managed futures programs. But as we alluded to in our newsletter comparing large and emerging managed futures programs, there is a need to find such up and comers due to larger managers returns tending to […]
Nice chart/graph of US Debt
For those who haven’t heard yet, the United States has a LOT of debt – and it is growing. To see this graphically – check out “America’s Debt: The Big Wave (Wall St Cheat Sheet)” brought to my attention on Ritholtz’s blog The Big Picture The big question is what will this do to US […]
Are commodities decoupling from stocks – Managed Futures hope so
With Wheat and Corn making new highs recently while stocks remain in a soft period, at best – it seems that the high correlation between commodities and the stock market may be coming undone a bit… which should help managed futures programs. We decided to take a closer look – and ended up doing the […]
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