On Wednesday. March 4th -April Crude Oil futures closed at 46.78, which left it down -22% on the year… not a good look. Monday, March 9th at 12:30 in the morning, Crude Oil was down -41.6% from that ugly close just 2 business days earlier, putting in a low at $27.34 !! Wow. That is […]
Category: Investing Insight
09
Mar
2020
04
Mar
2020
How’s your (Alts) Portfolio Doing?
Last week was a great time to look in the (portfolio) mirror and ask yourself what you see. As Taylor Pearson of Mutiny put it succinctly on Twitter: If the stock market dropping 5% causes you to freak out, it’s probably a good time to re-evaluate either/both: 1. The effectiveness of your portfolio’s diversification 2. […]
02
Mar
2020
Thank You! Best Introducing Broker for 7th Year In a Row
Lucky number 7! The RCM team was awarded our 7th straight Best Introducing Broker award at the 2020 HFM US Quant Awards (previously known as the CTA Intelligence Awards) and we want say THANKS. Thank you to all of the investors who put their trust in us, to our incredibly dedicated team, to all that read […]
27
Feb
2020
Protecting Against a Market Mutiny with Tail Risk, Convexity, & Long Vol on The Derivative
Has anyone been having fun the past few days? The “market”, as if there’s only one, has been in free-fall as the world tries to figure out what this Corona Virus will look like in terms of a possible global pandemic, down -8% in a week. That’s not a terribly huge move in the grand […]
25
Feb
2020
5th Biggest VIX spike past 20 years?
Did that feel like the 5th scariest day in the markets the past 20 years to anyone? Sure didn’t here in our shop, with groups like Breakout Funds, Deepfield, and others scoring gains on the Covid-19 fueled sell off. But the VIX saw it’s 5th largest spike on a daily basis in the past 20 […]
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 […]
12
Feb
2020
What would you put in a 100-year Portfolio?
A simple question, really. But not one we read much about in today’s world of instant gratification and investments jettisoned at the first signs of stress. So, when we were sent the latest research piece by Chris Cole of Artemis, we dug in (you can read the piece here). Now, Cole loves him some animal […]
10
Feb
2020
Chinese Futures Volumes Getting Big…Like, a Billion Contracts Big.
China has been all about the #Coronoavirus as of late….making it hard to think about anything else going on in the country – but some numbers from FIA’s annual report on global Futures and Options trading caught our eye last month; and they’re particularly intriguing as RCM has been spending a better part of two […]
04
Feb
2020
Move over Bitcoin – $TSLA is here
Maybe you’re one of those passive investors who doesn’t follow individual names… Maybe you’ve been stuck on an island talking to a volleyball. Whatever your reason – if you haven’t seen the price action in Tesla $TSLA shares this year – you’re missing one heck of a show. It’s like 400 million people in China […]
03
Feb
2020
Light Up: Cannabis Futures are Here!
Cannabis has been a hot topic in Chicago recently, with the new decade marking the first-time cannabis can be legally sold in Illinois. The result, nearly $40 million in legal pot sales in the first month of activity. This on the heels of a hedge fund conference we attended late last year in which private […]
