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Category: Managed Futures
25 Questions Every Investor Should Know About Diamond Capital
Let’s face it, when you take the time to evaluate possible strategies for your long term portfolio plans (especially Alternative Investments) there are a lot of choices out there, and it’s not always easy to create a so called short list, or even make a choice when you have that said short list. Performance tends […]
A 32 Year Record in Cattle Kills Driving Markets?
The past week’s steer and heifer slaughter, at 469,000 head, was the largest weekly kill thus far in 2015. The last time the slaughter reached year-to-date high levels in the month of September was more than 30 years ago (1983).
How Consistent are your Investments?
So keep telling investors not to panic when stocks go down. But realize you’re complacent with table wine (instead of premium) in this category
Attain Funds August Performance
The numbers are trickling in and as we discussed last week, this month’s market performance will be a good stress test for alternatives.
Managed Futures August Performance
Tthe question remained, how did managed futures do as a whole?
How did Managed Futures do while the Dow was Down 1000
We’re getting calls fast and furious asking how managed futures fared during the Dow losing a few thousand points.
Managed Futures, Global Macro, CTA Rankings
What’s the BEST Managed Futures Program? Introducing our semi-annual Managed Futures rankings.
9 Things to think about before playing the Commodities Sell Off
Behold, the current commodity carnage cliff notes: (we averaged the cash price move for each time frame of the commodity markets seen on FinViz for each sector, and sorted by return over the last 12 months).
It Sure Feels Worse Than It Is
If you look at the asset class scoreboard it sure looks like everything is find (despite commodities), but it sure feels a lot worse than it is, with U.S. stocks near their annual lows this week, after being at their annual highs last month.