February brought slight improvements to most of the asset class categories during the second month of the year. However, many were still left in the red. While World Stocks continued to drop, and with the moderate increases in Hedge Funds, U.S. stocks, bonds, and U.S. Real Estate, they all remained in the negative. As for […]
Category: Chart of the Week
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Mar
2022
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Feb
2022
Mutual Fund Performance: January
The start of the New Year provided a rude awakening to the few remaining people lulled to sleep by the die-hard equities bull market. While the world faced the worst COVID case spike of the pandemic, it also had to come to terms with a more hawkish posture from the Fed. Markets trended hard for […]
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Feb
2022
Asset Class Scoreboard: January
Well… looks like 2022 isn’t going to be the up, up, and away risk on love fest 2021 was. The first month of the year reminded everyone quite quickly that there is real risk in this market. US stocks, world stocks, hedge funds, and real estate all took a turn lower, with the S&P down […]
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Jan
2022
Mutual Fund Performance – December 2021
December markets brought some volatility as the world attempted to figure out the relative impact of omicron and the Fed likelihood of raising rates sooner than expected amidst some potentially improving job numbers and high inflation metrics. Trend following programs generally fared poorly (unless you stayed long oil), but not bad enough to erase a […]
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Jan
2022
Asset Class Scoreboard: December 2021
December quickly turned around from a red November, providing a rally we didn’t see coming and closing out 2021 strong. Real estate, Commodities, and Stocks were the top performers of the year, where hedge funds and bonds could use some improvement. Our preferred managed futures coasted through the year, ending the year positively. We’re looking […]
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Oct
2021
ESG causing Europe’s Energy Issues?
If you haven’t noticed what’s happening in the energy markets of late- oil and natural gas are on a bit of a tear this year, especially over in Europe, where they’ve been a bit more aggressive politically in their embrace and enforcement of ESG protocols and mandates. Even good old-fashioned West Texas Crude Oil isn’t […]
04
May
2021
The Jedi of Volatility Trading
Happy May the 4th everyone. (&TLDR, we mashed up Star Wars and VolTwit in an infographic, see here) Simply hold CTRL to zoom in & zoom out That’s Happy Star Wars Day to those not in the know. As in ‘May the 4th be with You!’ If you’ve been following along with the Derivative […]
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Dec
2019
Asset Class Scoreboard: November 2019
While it sure doesn’t seem like it given how high most asset classes have risen this year, a full 5 of the 8 asset classes we track were down in November (albeit slightly). The wet season and late harvesting had put a big damper on commodities especially in November, and U.S. Real Estate has taken […]
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Nov
2019
Asset Class Scoreboard: October 2019
Last year at this time we were labeling the asset class scoreboard Red October due to dismal returns by nearly every class. So, what should we label it now? Pos-i-tober…..? Mehh, we’ll keep working on the name while Managed Futures needs to get to work on creating some positive returns. Hopefully we finish out the […]
02
Oct
2019
Asset Class Scoreboard: September 2019
Is anyone going to be able to stop U.S. Real Estate and US Stocks? Yeeeeshh, those two classes rebounded big time in Sep, to get back into the 20%+ club. In the world of MF, there was a classic reversion to the mean after a big August, causing managed futures to drop a couple spots, […]
