Commodity Trading & Trend Following

Bullish followers of the stock followers have one more reason to be positive. For the first time in 4 years the 50-day moving average of the SP 500 & Nasdaq crossed above the 200-day moving average. Technicians call this the Golden Cross. There have been tons of studies that once this occurs the market continues [...]

Simple filters can enhance trading results. There are risk filters which are paramount to long term success as well as I use filters which help me to take trades in the direction of the trend. Firstly I qualify my universe by relative strength. I only want to buy the strongest markets and sell the weakest [...]

You go to sleep with a nice trade on and you wake up and you are completely on the wrong side of a trade. This example I have seen countless times as well as been effected. I would assume the majority of trend followers and forex traders have been long the Japanese Yen for a [...]

It always shocks me that so called investors run for the doors when a commodity trading advisor has a draw down. The fact is as much as they are not palatable for investors to go through they are as normal as breathing out. I look at draw downs of successful long term commodity trading advisors [...]

Major Global Economic Concerns for 2nd Half of 2010
It is now clear that the global economic recovery is hitting a major wall of resistance. Just a few short months ago throughout the 1st quarter of 2010, the Federal Reserve was beginning to hold talks behind closed doors of how and when they might [...]

This is not just a funny video.. it is so true …it is so scary..
Many Fear the Boom and Bust cycle of John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek. These two are considered the great economists of the 20th century. This rap song on the economic crisis is so true. Before the conference begins, and [...]

Organization / Fund 2007 2008 2009 3 year
Max DD Lifetime
Max DD Minimum
Abraham Trading1
19.20% 28.81% -5.56% 7.24% 27.19% 10 M
Aspect Capital2
8.18% 25.42% -11.25% 21.53% 21.53% 500 K
Chesapeake Capital3
2.33% 15.38% 0.40% 23.36% 23.36% 5 M
Clarke Capital4
35.24% 79.90% -29.78% 31.19% 31.19% 50 K
Drury Capital5
5.00% 75.64% 9.02% 13.43% 32.51% 5 M
Dunn Capital6
7.60% 51.45% -0.57% 36.36% 60.26% 10 M
Eckhardt Trading7
34.12% 13.15% -4.80% 8.03% 27.11% 10 M
EMC Capital8
17.32% 46.30% -14.35% 16.54% 45.16% 2 M
Hawksbill Capital9
20.24% 96.22% -15.32% 24.67% 61.78% 5 M
Hyman Beck & Co.10
-5.85% 49.78% 3.96% 15.31% 29.27% 1 M
JWH & Co.11
18.61% 90.63% -24.06% 30.49% 30.50% 20 M
Man AHL Diversified12
19.61% 33.23% -16.95% 17.90% 17.90% 30 K
Millburn Ridgefield13
12.85% 20.61% -7.33% 16.16% 26.89% 150 K
Rabar Market Research14
15.12% 18.22% 6.99% 8.61% 29.84% 2.5 M
Saxon Investment15
21.20% 20.90% 10.37% 5.93% 41.49% 2 M
Superfund16
-0.92% 30.00% -29.46% 32.54% 32.54% 5 K
Transtrend17
14.46% 18.99% -8.36% 8.51% 8.51% 10 M
Winton Capital18
16.13% 21.02% -4.63% 10.26% 25.73% 10 M
Notes:
1. Abraham Trading was founded by Salem Abraham,. Introduced to [...]

Who do you believe?… Jim Rogers came out today and predicts food shortages. Jim Rogers thinks there will be food shortages because of the financial crisis. He believes the agricultural sector is low on funds and inventories are at the lowest levels in decades. An example is a recent trade that most trend followers are [...]

Everyone would love to know what would be the outlook for the commodity markets and commodity trading. After a roaring 2007 and 2008 it seemed that commodity trading advisors would know no limit. The stock markets collapsed in 2008 and fear was rampant through out the world. During the turmoil when virtually every strategy lost [...]

Walking away from Mortgages
It seems now almost acceptable that Americans can walk away from their mortgages. Why not? So many are upside down, owing more money on a house than the house is actually worth.
Many Americans are just walking away and renting virtually the same homes for half or a third [...]