Commodity Trading & Trend Following

There are good trades and then there are bad trades in trend following and commodity trading. Most confuse the point. They think a good trade is a trade that makes money and a bad trade is one that loses money. This is not correct. A good trade is a trade regardless if it makes money [...]

All too many times system sellers or new commodity trading advisors spout “Hypothetical trading Results” that look great. The question you need to ask yourself is do you want hypothetical profits…or real profits. There are so many problems and issues with hypothetical results. Many times they do not have slippage accounted for. In the real [...]

There are many reasons commodity traders or even stock market investors fail.
Read this email that was sent to me. This is an example of one of the main reasons for failure.
Remember the charts condense all the economic, political and emotional expectations. And yes, every stock market movement is geared solely by expectations, not the [...]

Last year we saw the meltdown of virtually all asset classes and the end of easy returns. Last years double digit returns from Trend Followers have interested many investors and brokers to the commodity markets. Inflation fears are on the minds of many smart investors since the central banks all over the world have printed [...]