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Category: Investing Insight
Managed Futures 2015 Strategy Review
While the headlines and summaries of 2015 will focus on a flat year for stocks and rout in commodity markets – the year was anything but that simple. There was a rally in energy prices, as hard as that is to believe now. There were new highs in the stock market, punctuated by a sharp […]
Alternative Analysis: EMC Capital Advisors
EMC Capital Advisors have certainly changed since its legendary beginning at the start of Managed Futures and the story of the turtle traders.
Stay away from Commodity ETFs
For the umpteenth time – you wouldn’t buy a car that only goes forwards (you probably want reverse).
The 10 Best Managed Futures Programs of 2015
Managed Futures as an asset class was able to finish just above the black in 2015 (according to our 2014 asset class scoreboard) which is great to use as a reference to compare against other investment strategies, but it’s not so great if someone was using that information to decide whether to invest in Managed […]
Managed Futures 2016 Outlook
Take a step inside the engine room of Managed Futures returns, to see where volatility might fall across dozens of markets over the past year.
Weekend Reads: Questioning Capitalism
Answering Larry’s Call – (Reformed Broker) CarhoMetrics Cracks the Code on Shipping Data – (Institutional Investor) The Secretive Hedge Fund That’s Generating Huge Profits for Yale – (Bloomberg) Macro Strategies Hedge Funds Provide Capital Protection in Volatile Financial Markets – (Preqin) The Difference Between Institutional & Individual Investors – (A Wealth of Common Sense) Why […]
4 More Realistic Ways To Invest in Crude Oil… (Not Named $USO)
Don’t just buy and hold Crude Oil USO. Invest in a strategy that can do well when Crude Oil rebounds, but also does well when it is in free fall.
Managed Futures’ Dominant January Performance
What’s not to like – with Managed Futures offering up an average gain of 2.25% in a month where stocks lost -5.21% and global stocks lost -6.71%.