Posts Tagged ‘managed futures’
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
by: Matthew Bradbard January 24, 2011 When comparing other asset classes we do not think that commodities are superior, though we do like the non-correlation to other asset classes. The performance of most commodities is independent to the performance in the stock market, bond market or real estate market. The U.S. stock market has just [...]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
I have come to terms with the fact that fundamentals do not matter and that I am a very lousy trader in Crude oil. Clients were stopped out a loss yesterday the market moved down 15 cents which would have been only another $150 of risk and then exploded today, as of this post higher by [...]
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Oil is above $70 making a new contract high having appreciated some 40% since the beginning of May. We feel you are late to the party if you don’t already have long exposure though we’ll be looking at getting long on a setback if we ever get one?? Ou pick in the energy sector remains [...]
Tags: commodity, crude oil, CTA, euro-dollars, futures, gold, managed futures, MB Wealth, natural gas, options, silver, treasuries, us dollar, yield curve
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
I am writing this a bit early today and things may change in the next few hours but I need to leave the office early for a radio interview this evening. I will be joined by Barbashop; one of our most succesful CTA’s in 08′ (up over 130%). We will be speaking about managed futures. [...]
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