Commodity Trading & Trend Following

Interview with CFTC Chilton regarding MF Global Clients Money
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I do not know about the rest of you who farm or trade commodities, but we are in the wrong business! I think we all should ask the Trustee James Giddens for a job. We can offer the same discount he offered the Honorable Judge Martin Glenn. If we can not get a job at [...]

Seems we are making some progress in the MF Global Bankruptcy.
Recent article from Bloomberg
MF Global Bankruptcy Trustee Plans to Meet With ‘Objectors’ Tomorrow
By Linda Sandler - Nov 17, 2011 2:11 AM GMT+0200
The liquidator of broker-dealer MF Global Inc. said he would meet tomorrow with customers who faulted his plan for handling claims, as he was [...]

If one were to run their personal household as the FED runs the Govt we would be living on the street. It is shocking to me we are at this point. Maybe shocking is the wrong term, maybe disgust. Bloomberg’s Chart of the Day yesterday represented the GDP and Debt per capita on a historical [...]

Nassim Taleb was in the news day quite often in the 2008 period. He has been relatively out of the limelight recently. Saw this video on Bloomberg in which Nassim Taleb discusses Wall street and the banking situation. An interesting watch
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While besides the fact that unemployment is increasing…besides the fact foreclosures are increasing and now spreading to some of the so called safer mortgages… besides the fact the insiders of stock have been selling widely ( For every share purchased…insiders have sold 18 shares) while short term traders are trading micro seconds…
Another proof of [...]

I was reading Bloomberg and this article expresses many of my personal opinions.
Inflation Fear Pushes U.S. Endowments Deeper Into Commodities
By Gillian Wee
Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) — George Washington University is increasing holdings of commodities such as oil and natural gas out of concern that a return to inflation rates last seen in the 1970s [...]

Trend following commodity futures trading as well as stock traders were villified last year as speculators. Even George Soros came out with the statement that the rampant rise of crude oil was due to speculators. Trend following commodity trading advisors are speculators but they do not manipulate trends. On of the main principles of trend [...]

Every year there is always one of the commodities markets that makes that huge commodity trade. There were years in which Wheat and all the various grains were the big winner in the commodities markets. The question is, is Wheat lining up to be this years big commodity trade for trend followers? Commodity future traders [...]