Commodity Trading & Trend Following

The common thought is that everyone lost money last year as in every Stock Market Bear Market. Well happily to tell you, this is not the case. Numerous trend following commodity trading advisors had great years. To give one even more confidence in the strategy is the 2008 Bear Market is not an outside event. [...]

I am sure you have seen those late night informercials how to make a million dollars in commodity futures trading. How about an option strategy buying heating oil in the summer because it has to go up in the winter. Well guess what, it does not work that way. Commodity futures trading is the hardest [...]

To often when one looks to invest with Commodity trading advisors they focus only on the recent ( 2-3 year) returns. This can be a mistake. One who looks to invest in commodity trading advisors need to understand not just the returns and track record but rather how much risk was taken on in order [...]

Every year there is always one of the commodities markets that makes that huge commodity trade. There were years in which Wheat and all the various grains were the big winner in the commodities markets. The question is, is Wheat lining up to be this years big commodity trade for trend followers? Commodity future traders [...]

Yes there are Trend Following commodity trading advisors that have been around for decades. This is not to say that trend following has the smoothest results but on a compounded annual basis very few strategies can even come close to comparing. More so, commodity trading advisors that are registered with the NFA ( National [...]

Regardless which type of derivatives you speak about credit derivatives,financial derivatives,futures derivatives or options derivatives these weapons of mass destruction are STILL OUT OF CONTROL. For all of those that say green shoots are growing, they to forget that unemployment has been increasing as well as foreclosures are increasing. Most scary is the unbelievable amount [...]

Last weeks strongest and weakest markets are posted every Sunday on Myinvestorsplace.com. When one is a trend follower one of the strategies used is to buy strength and sell weakness. Many successful commodity trading advisors adhere to this strategy when do preform their commodity Future Trading.
The following are the strongest and weakest markets on a [...]

Commodity futures trading was the second-worst performing strategy this year. So what does that mean for trend following? Does one who invests in commodity futures trading need to make profits every month or is it more important to make money over a long period of time? Commodity trading advisors and in general commodity futures trading [...]

Every crisis has created major profits for commodity futures trading. When utilizing a Trend Following strategy a commodity trading advisor makes himself ‘available for oppurtunities”. Most of the time in commodity futures trading nothing happens. Interestingly enough, really nothing has to happen. However in commodity futures trading history virtually all of the crisis of the [...]

Legendary investor Jim Rogers came out again on a recent Reuters news cast peating his view that commodities were the best place to be with ,more so than stocks this year and he is a strong advocate of them long-term potential for soft commodities. Putting things into focus Jim Rogers was one of the only [...]