Commodity Trading & Trend Following

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A while back I wrote about tent cities popping up in many cities throughout America. First thought was this can not be happening in America. Well I came across another disturbing news article that cities are turning the lights off on city streets. Yesג€¦ it sounds unbelievableג€¦ however for example [...]

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Can You Lose Money By owning Gold? So many gold bugs think this is absolutely impossible. However as a commodity trading advisor… I believe anything can happen and stick to a thought out plan. Let me give you an example, In the 1980s gold reached $1223 and investors were throwing money at gold. However almost [...]

Friday’s action was a wonderful example of counter trend rallies in commodity trading. Ourselves and most other trend following commodity trading advisors are/were long gold, short the US dollar, long some of the grains, long the interest rates and even cotton. Bing Bang… the US dollar rallied. Gold fell something like 4%+…all of our nice [...]

This last week the Fed closed 6 more banks making total to 130 bank failures since the crisis started. There are strong expectations that even more small and regional banks will fail. Just these 6 banks cost the FDIC $2.3 Billion dollars.I believe there is something like 500 banks on the FDIC watch list. However [...]

So many thought all the investment frauds would have ended already. However more and more have come to light. One investment fraud which shocked me was Scott Rothstein who I knew from college. He ran a ponzi scheme to the tune of $1.2 Billion dollars. Scott Rothstein was a lawyer who donated a great deal [...]

2010 is fast approaching. I have had conversations with colleagues..and the issue that was brought up so many times was 2007-2009 just a fluke or the beginning of something more serious. As usual… I told them to their discern I do not know the future. However in all reality… if we ran our personal households [...]

It seems fair play to bash the good ole USA. The US has a debt problem out of control. The US is going to implode…yada…yada…Well as one of my older colleagues who went through Pearl Harbor says repeatedly told me…” Do NOT Sell the US Out”! Well the facts are very serious…the US external debt [...]

I had a discussion with a colleague the other day as the Dubai Debt Crisis was starting. He was concerned about keeping his money in HSBC. He has all of his assets at HSBC. Firstly I suggested he divide up his assets between some banks and locales. As well only giving to banks that do [...]

Will the last 2 months of 2009 make the year for trend following commodity trading advisors or will it be one of those lack luster years? It reminds of a football game and we are in the last quarter with only a few minutes left. The truth though is that trend following commodity trading advisors [...]