Taking Every Trade with Mechanical Systems
Mechanical systems are used widely in trend following and commodity trading. These mechanical systems need to be simple and robust in design otherwise they will not work. The only way potentially profits can be garnished when using mechanical systems is to follow every signal. One does not have the luxury [...]
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My name in Andrew Abraham. I have been investing in commodities and managed futures since 1994. I adhere to the philosophy of trend following.
Trend following stresses a disciplined approach to commodity/ futures trading. Successful trend following and commodity futures investing requires patience, discipline and actively managing the risk. What sets me apart from other traders is that I am not only concerned about the return on investment but how much risk I will have to tolerate to achieve my goals.
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Is it too late to buy Gold? I had this question posed to me today. To the utter disappointment of the person I told them I really do not know. They said this is what you do for a living. You invest or speculate in commodities and how can you not know? Whats going on! [...] I first have to qualify it all depends on one’s time frame. If you want to be a day trader you would have to sit in front of a screen all day and make countless decisions. As well in my 17 years of trading I have never allocated to a day trader nor have found [...] John Taylor is the founder of FX concepts a $8 Billion dollar commodity trading advisor specializing in forex. John Taylor was recently on CNBC discussing his thoughts and investment thesis for the upcoming period. Very interesting to watch. Past performance is not indicative of future performance When one thinks of a commodity guru they usually would have the false assumption that this commodity guru knows or can predict the future. This is not a commodity guru. I want to share with you an example of a commodity guru. He is not a PHD.. he is not a mathematician …he is not [...] This has been the proverbial question. Should I be invested in bonds and if so how much and of course everyone has to be invested in the stock market ( or do they). A cartoon sums it up. Both the bond market and stock market are at interesting points. Both have serious issues which most [...] I read this article over the weekend…It is a great piece from John Mauldin. It confirms my personal investing approach of trend following a basket of commodities A colleague of mine sent me an interesting article about David Ricardo. He was a trend follower in the 1700s. He accumulated at the time approx $62 million dollars by trend following. He had several simple rules. They are the rules that successful trend followers use today. In theory it seems a valid process to buy when a long term commodity trading advisor experiences a draw down. It is as if you are buying on sale an exceptional product. In the real world however you never know how long or how much further the draw down will continue. At times it can [...] Silver has been in a trend since the end of Aug 2010. So far it has exceeded expectations of all the so called experts. No one knows how far it can run. The idea is to let your profits run. These profits take care of all the small losses. This is the key to trend [...] |
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