Question: Can CTA’s with $1 Billion AUM Trade Grains?
First, on an elementary level, you won’t find anything on the CME website detailing a restriction on managers exceeding an arbitrary assets under management, from entering into a position into any market, nevertheless any of the grain markets. That’s not to say the question is entirely off; the root of the question, and in our opinion, the far more intriguing factor is not that they can’t but that they mostly don’t. Here’s why.
5 “other” All Time Highs
Is it just us or does all this coverage of the stock market indices seem like a broken record? Which got us to thinking of all the other things that are all time highs currently (besides the number of Attain employee children, collective age and weight in our office, etc), some having to do with the stock market, some decidedly not so…5 other areas where products/usage/items are at all time highs.
The Surprising Connection That The Worst Performing ETF’s Share
When is enough, enough? That’s the question you have to be repeating to yourself if you’re a Gold Bull. Or maybe, the better question is, that’s what you have to be thinking if you’re invested in a long Gold ETF. Upon surfing the interwebs for useful financial commentary and statistics, we stumbled upon the Worst 10 ETF performer’s YTD from Index Universe… and can you guess what most of them had in common?
Nobody ever lost money in a Spreadsheet
After decades of experience with trading systems and CTA’s, we are comfortable with the phrase (Past Performance is not necessarily indicative of future results), as well as disclaimers for hypothetical performance due to back testing. But what irks us, is when other advisors/investors aren’t held to the same standard. And it seems that back testing is being applied to the $1.7 trillion ETF market. And even if back testing is done correctly (which is a difficult task to accomplish), there are still some pitfalls.
Diversification: Giving up some home runs, to avoid future strikeouts
We love Carl Richards money doodles on the New York Times ‘Bucks’ blog, and noticed this older post, which is even more timely than ever, the topic of diversification. The angle – diversification isn’t all roses and candy canes. It’s hard to stick to because it involves giving up something (hitting home runs) in order to get something (never striking out).
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