Talking this week with Poker Pro Chris Sparks on everything from game strategy to deciphering A.I. capabilities and catching bots. With Founder, CEO, and Performance Coach of The Forcing Function we’re taking it back to the beginning where we dive in with Chris about an interesting online alias “GoMuckYourself”, grabbing seats at poker tables in […]
Category: Statistics
23
Dec
2020
2020’s Best Strategies, Styles, and Stories with Adam Butler and Jason Buck
2020 has been a year for the books – be it the fastest every market sell-off or a just as amazing tech rally from the lows. Whether you’re looking at it from a social/emotional/fiscal lens, it probably didn’t pan out the way you imagined based on your New Year’s Resolution. And in today’s podcast, we’re […]
03
Aug
2020
Asset Class Scoreboard: July 2020
It’s hard to believe we’re in the 2nd half of this horrid year, already; but here we are reporting the first month of Q3 (July), which itself was the first month of 2020 to see every asset class we track positive. A big turnaround from how the first half of the year started out, to […]
07
May
2020
Tackling Trading Technologies and (lower case t) technology with Guy Scott of TT
Futures traders take clicking a price to generate an order on their PCs for granted these days, much less the instant delivery of every tick, order book data, and trade fills. But how does it all work? And how did it used to all work?? Lucky for you, we’ve got one of the experts from […]
26
Jun
2019
Up is down, forwards is backwards, Alpha is Beta
The good folks over at Transtrend (the 12th largest managed futures program in our top 100 managers infographic) are out with a new research piece via the CME that throws the whole Alpha concept out the window. They agree with the classical definition of Alpha as the amount of return not explained by the chosen […]
15
Apr
2020
March Manager Performance Snapshot
Commodity Program Last Month YTD Minimum Cayler CapitalQ 14.94% 18.72% 125K Red Rock Commodity Long Short 13.16% 25.15% 500K Jaguar AegirQ 9.14% 10.79% 1MM Aquantum Commodity 3.58% 7.87% 5MM Aquantum EnergyQ 2.20% 7.46% 5MM Emil Van Essen SpreadQ -1.17% -15.66% 5MM Auspice Short TermQ -1.27% 0.17% 5MM Caerus Group Oil Futures Trading Program -1.64% -18.06% 200K […]
20
Feb
2020
January Manager Performance Snapshot
We field a bunch of calls at the start of each month asking how that hedge fund, this emerging manager, and that mutual fund did last month, and thought to simplify things for you with this categorized list of different alternative investment performance for the month gone by. Note: These performance numbers and calculations include […]
14
Jan
2020
December Performance Snapshot
We field a bunch of calls at the start of each month asking how that hedge fund, this emerging manager, and that mutual fund did last month, and thought to simplify things for you with this categorized list of different alternative investment performance for the month gone by. Note: These performance numbers and calculations include […]
13
Dec
2019
November Manager Performance Snapshot
We field a bunch of calls at the start of each month asking how that hedge fund, this emerging manager, and that mutual fund did last month, and thought to simplify things for you with this categorized list of different alternative investment performance for the month gone by. Commodity Program Last Month YTD Minimum […]
09
Dec
2019
Commodity Performance Over the Decade (2009-2019)
Just 22 days left in the decade, and we’re going to use a good portion of those to look back on some of the top performing markets, asset classes, and alternative investment funds over that time. First up, commodities, which would likely rather not be mentioned at all. Talk about a lost decade….2010 through 2019 […]
