Commodity Trading & Trend Following

There was an interesting article yesterday in the Wall Street Journal. The article spoke about Bluetrend a trend follower & commodity trading advisor who last year earned 43.4%. The article discussing the struggles that Blue trend is currently going through this year ( down 5.5%). The truth is, in commodity futures trading returns like last [...]

To the inexperienced, the decisions process in trend following & commodity trading should be complicated. Since I have been involved in commodity trading since 1994, I have seen what stands the chance of succeeding over the long term and what does not. Besides being a Commodity trading advisor with a commodity pool I work as [...]

The father of trend following of trading commodities is Richard Donchian. Donchian started the first manged futures fund for trading commodities in 1949. Despite his long term success in trading commodities skeptics abound till today. To me a commodity trading advisor my plan is partially based on Donchian and his methods of trading commodities. His [...]

One of the vast differences between the results of trend following in commodity futures trading lies in which markets a trader invests in.
The number of markets usually depends on account size. The larger an account the more markets possible to be traded and vice versa. Do to this constraint smaller accounts can not trade as [...]

This week investors who thought they were avoiding risk saw their worst nightmare sentenced to 150 years, Madoff. Who are these investors, while attempting to avoid risk, were they simply naive, stupid or just plain greedy. How can one really expect to generate returns that were simply too good to be true. I was [...]

I am sure you have seen those late night informercials how to make a million dollars in commodity futures trading. How about an option strategy buying heating oil in the summer because it has to go up in the winter. Well guess what, it does not work that way. Commodity futures trading is the hardest [...]

To often when one looks to invest with Commodity trading advisors they focus only on the recent ( 2-3 year) returns. This can be a mistake. One who looks to invest in commodity trading advisors need to understand not just the returns and track record but rather how much risk was taken on in order [...]

Yes there are Trend Following commodity trading advisors that have been around for decades. This is not to say that trend following has the smoothest results but on a compounded annual basis very few strategies can even come close to comparing. More so, commodity trading advisors that are registered with the NFA ( National [...]

Commodity futures trading was the second-worst performing strategy this year. So what does that mean for trend following? Does one who invests in commodity futures trading need to make profits every month or is it more important to make money over a long period of time? Commodity trading advisors and in general commodity futures trading [...]

Every crisis has created major profits for commodity futures trading. When utilizing a Trend Following strategy a commodity trading advisor makes himself ‘available for oppurtunities”. Most of the time in commodity futures trading nothing happens. Interestingly enough, really nothing has to happen. However in commodity futures trading history virtually all of the crisis of the [...]