Commodity Trading & Trend Following

Socgen has issued a warning to its clients for a Global Economic Collapse! Seems the timing could not be better with 2012 in the movie theaters all over the world. Before one scoffs off Societe Generaleג€™s warning one needs to take into context that they have been right in the past. One such instance was [...]

Letג€™s put things into perspective India has one of the largest populations in the world as well it is one of the strongest markets this year. The economy is booming. There are new constructions starts, corporate earnings have been going through the roof as well as the Rupee has gained in value against the US [...]

We can see that there is still a ג€œred seaג€ of negative performance in October, both for the monthly and YTD reporting.
2009 will probably not be as good a year as 2008 for the Trend Following Wizards. Some commodity trading advisors would view this as a period to avoid commodity trading advisors, however to the [...]

It seems to be the question of the week for me when speaking to people..What did Gold do during the Great Depression. Well if you had the physical you were required by law to turn it into the FED govt. In return you a certificate. Basically it was illegal to own physical gold during the [...]

If you look in any commodity or forex publication you will see advertisements for mechanical trading systems. This is an area in which commodity traders as well as forex traders seek to find their holy grail. Well in reality this will not happen with any mechanical trading system on the market. However mechanical trading systems [...]

In my years of experience trading commodities, it seems the only time mental stops should be used is by a large trader who doesn’t want his open stop sitting in the market for the fear that someone might run their stop. For most other traders having mental stops is a serious flaw in their [...]

The reality is there exists a great deal of correlation between trend following commodity trading advisors… But there are always a difference in their returns…Many times because I have managed accounts I see a great overlap. It seems virtually every commodity trading advisor had the sugar trade. The sugar trade was a perfect setup. It [...]

Nouriel Roubini was this week at a conference discussing the lessons of the recent crisis. The conference was hosted by the professional risk managers international association. It is a very interesting video for those that follow Nouriel Roubini. He takes the position that the green shoots are not going to flourish as many hope.

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Would you invest with a commodity trading advisor that had been around for approx 13 years and had a rate of return of approx 31% annual return over those 13 years?
I would bet so many fund of funds would love this story and throw money on him. The only problem is Neiderhoffer blew up.The fact [...]

One of the keys of success for a commodity trading advisor is a trusted relationship with his commodity broker. The commodity trading advisor needs a commodity broker that will work orders for him. Not simply just buy the highs or lows visa vee an automated mechanical system. Monroe Trout one of the commodity trading advisors [...]