In a world where every kernel of publicly available intelligence is quickly processed and acted upon, investing advantages can evaporate quickly. In quant speak, the alpha gets arbitraged away.
Category: Managed Futures
07
Aug
2017
Long-Term Commodity Investment Strategy
When you think of commodity market performance, what’s one of the first things you think of? Positive or negative performance? For anyone who has invested over the past 10 years, the answer has been mostly negative… and even when it hasn’t been, commodity markets cyclical moves up and down tends to be at odds with the […]
27
Jul
2017
Tips for Using Notional Funding
Understanding the concept of notional funding is helpful, but it’s even better to get practical tips for using it. If this is the first time you’re hearing the term, you can catch up in our previous post, here. For tips on using notional funding, we turn to Alan Zenk, President of CTA Services, who works […]
25
Jul
2017
Futures, FIA, and FCMs
It’s easy to see why most of the finance world love visualizations. As they say, a picture’s worth a thousand words. But it seems to be even more the case when talking stats, numbers, and facts to visualize. We tend to have our fun turning data about interest rates, crisis periods, Star Wars, and futures […]
20
Jul
2017
Is Managed Futures Now Mainstream?
Chicago’s futures brainchild has become very New Yorkitized… with Wall Street product being created over and over again to get a foothold in the space.
12
Jul
2017
Why Everyone’s Trading Volatility
The evidence keeps mounting that more and more investors are trading the VIX these days, now seeing the fear gauge as a tool to generate returns, not just an indicator. Whether we’re in peak VIX mode or not – it was high time we wrote a whitepaper on all the ins and outs of volatility trading via the VIX.
30
Jun
2017
The Top 10 Managed Futures Managers of May
For those that are looking for the top performers of the month, ignoring risk metrics, RCM’s due diligence, and exclusively sort by returns only, these are the Top 10 programs in May. Click through on the manager and program names to view their profiles in our database. For a much more detailed and analytical ranking system, […]
28
Jun
2017
Here’s How the Pros Trade Energy Markets
who wasn’t going all in on a rebound in energy prices? Who had their doubts about this continued rebound? Well, those well versed in the fundamentals of the energy markets surely had their doubts knowing what was going on with the supply side of the equation.
26
Jun
2017
Wall Street has a Bad Rap with Millennials – Good Luck Fixing it
From our in-house Millennial – Blake Kelley. If you’re a millennial, you’re acutely aware that you’ve killed everything. Seriously, google term millennial and you’ll see article after article about destroying entire industries and thus life as we know it. It’s laughable. Here’s a small collection Buzzfeed put together: The financial industry is no exception. Wall Street […]
