Reasons for the Seasons in Managed Futures
TweetTweetAs the weather in Chicago continues to toy with the good folks at Attain (90 degrees and 40 degrees should not fall within the same 7 day span), we thought it might be a good idea to look at...
View ArticleFeeder Cattle (+20%) and 30 Year Bonds (+18%) top 2011 commodities performers
TweetTweetEveryone’s talking about Milk as 2011’s top performing commodity, but we’re more interested in markets that managed futures professionals actually trade, like Bonds, Crude Oil, Natural Gas,...
View ArticlePlaying Corn by Ear
TweetTweetWe’ve been focused lately on the struggles of systematic trend-following CTAs. They’ve had similar stretches in the past, but because the strategy makes up the majority of the managed futures...
View ArticleThere’s Something About Dairy
TweetTweetForgive us the pun, but when it comes to commodity markets being threatened by the latest fiscal crisis in Washington, dairy futures always seem to be front and center. A few months ago it...
View ArticleHog Heaven
TweetTweetLike clockwork, whenever major media outlets catch on to a major commodity trend, the move is by far overextended, and in an instant, it’s all over before you know it. Take for example Lean...
View ArticleNo Rain, Still Grain, and the Disappearing Live Stock
Today is the first day of October and that means it’s time to break out the Halloween decorations, drink as many pumpkin latte’s as possible, and watch as much Sunday football as possible. But in the...
View ArticleManaged Futures Linkfest
In this week’s edition of Managed Futures Linkfest, the rebuttals/responses to Bloomberg bashing of Managed Futures are still flowing, David Harding on Winton talks Market Momentum with his lovely...
View ArticleThe picture from Space that shows why Commodities are non-correlated to the...
Picture Courtesy: MODIS Right about now, you’re sitting there thinking: How on earth does this weather picture of the Wyoming & South Dakota have anything to do with stocks not being correlated to...
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