Commodity Trading & Trend Following

It is hard to argue with Jim Rogers. He is a China Bull. China has had a wonderful rally over the last several months. Even with the recent 4-5% drops, Jim Rogers is a China bull and a commodity bull. Listen to Jim Rogers.

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As I have repeatedly stated… commodity trading is the easiest yet the hardest thing one can ever do. Too many aspiring commodity traders or forex traders search for the holy grail. They search for indicators…mechanical trading systems or basically the answers.
The only answer is, simple ideas traded over diversified markets with multiple trading systems with [...]

Successful commodity traders and forex traders know there is a random distribution of results of winners and losers. The majority of commodity traders and forex traders use some type of mechanical trading systems. The reason they use a mechanical trading system is that they can test out their plan and see the historical back tests [...]

So far this year there have been 72 Bank failures in the US. What is more concerning is that Bloomberg came out today with an article stating that they expect more than 150 major U.S. lenders to fail due to their nonperforming loans that equal 5 percent or more of their holdings. The number of [...]

How many Stock market Bears are itching to go short the stock market index? Probably too many to count. However regardless of all the fundamental reasons and thoughts to blindly go short the stock market index, this is not prudent. One could possibly listen to Paul Tudor Jones who thinks this is a bear market [...]

So many economists and government officials are claiming inflation is dead. These are probably the same people that did not see the Great Recession coming. The fact is everyone has an opinion, however everyone is only entitled to the facts. The facts that are evident are multi fold.
1. Global demand is increasing in the commodity [...]

Paul Krugman discussed at a two-day world capital markets conference last week how the world barely missed this “second great depression”. In his opinion he states that the massive stimulus spending by governments around the world helped to avoid a second Great Depression. Further more he believes a full economic recovery will take two years [...]

There was an interesting article yesterday in the Wall Street Journal. The article spoke about Bluetrend a trend follower & commodity trading advisor who last year earned 43.4%. The article discussing the struggles that Blue trend is currently going through this year ( down 5.5%). The truth is, in commodity futures trading returns like last [...]

In some of my earlier posts I spoke about Tactical trading in Commodity futures. I want to provide you an example that is occurring right now in commodity futures trading. This is not from one of those web sites with commodity tips. This is real trading in a commodity market with a real commodity trade.
The [...]

The first thought of some regarding the word, speculation in the commodity markets is of total risk or cowboy mentality. More so, the term speculator is looked down upon by the idea of trying to control the crude markets or selling short last year. All of these are inaccurate.
What really is Speculation in the Commodity [...]