Commodity Trading & Trend Following

After Fridays ( relief) rally is it safe to come out and play or invest? Probably not, As a trend follower the trend is still down on the SP 500. Even with Friday’s nice rally, the index is still below the 50 day moving average as well as most importantly 200 moving average.
Nothing has [...]

Below is a short list of returns for 2009 Returns for Commodity trading advisors that are trend followers
Organization / Fund Dec. Return YTD * AUM **
Abraham Trading1
-3.98% -5.56% $482M
Aspect Capital2
-5.80% -11.25% $3568M
Chesapeake Capital3
2.83% 0.40% $1046M
Clarke Capital4
-11.04% -29.78% $23M
Drury Capital5
0.08% 9.02% $151M
Dunn Capital6
-5.83% -0.57% $220M
Eckhardt Trading7
-5.95% -4.80% $445M
EMC Capital8
-2.00% -14.35% $212M
Hawksbill Capital9
-14.50% -15.32% $50M
Hoffman Asset Management 19
% -4.83% $26M
Hyman Beck & Co.10
-1.30% 3.96% $462M
JWH & Co.11
-10.87% -24.06% $106M
Man AHL Diversified12
-6.89% -16.95% $20,400M
Millburn Ridgefield13
1.48% -7.33% $1,095M
Rabar Market Research14
-0.48% 6.99% $222M
Saxon Investment15
-0.18% 10.37% $10M
Superfund16
-8.86% -29.46% $159M
Transtrend17
-3.21% -8.36% $107M
Winton Capital18
-2.45% -4.63% $12,650M
Notes:
* YTD: Year-To-Date performance through Dec 2009.
** AUM: [...]

Professional Commodity Traders
When you watched the last Super Bowl game did you see how the Pittsburg Steelers overcame the Arizona Cardinals? I was impressed by the professional way they performed. They did not beat themselves by making mistakes. A professional regardless if in sports or in any field makes fewer mistakes than others. This is [...]

Anything can happen in commodity trading. As much as inflation can come about there can be deflation and result in a declining market. Most people do not think it is possible to profit in a declining market. This could not be further than the truth. As long as there exist trends profits can be made [...]

How To Invest in a Commodity Trading Advisor
Maybe it is human natureג€¦ maybe it is a lack of patience or disciplineג€¦or the new word courageג€¦why do so many lose money when investing with legendary Commodity trading advisors? I have seen it over and over again. A commodity trading advisor has a good runג€¦and then his [...]

There are really no isolated incidents in the world. Today we are waking up to the news that Dubai might be defaulting on its debt. Stock Markets around the world are plummeting. There are many other issues that hardly made the news. Firstly Vietnam devalued their currency and their populace as Mark Mobius has coined [...]

If you think…that I or anyone else really know why the price of gold is moving…you will need to find another article. Guess what…everyone has opinions..The fact however is that the price is going up…and that is why virtually every trend follower …every commodity trading advisor has purchased gold. It is as simple as we [...]

We can see that there is still a ג€œred seaג€ of negative performance in October, both for the monthly and YTD reporting.
2009 will probably not be as good a year as 2008 for the Trend Following Wizards. Some commodity trading advisors would view this as a period to avoid commodity trading advisors, however to the [...]

It really is interesting to read and watch the activity in the various commodity markets. What is becoming apparent is that Oil traders and commodity speculators are paying TOP DOLLAR ( a nice play on words) for options to protect their positions in the price of crude ( or they are selling naked).The fact is [...]

The question is are you the last one now to be buying gold? The list of successful Hedge fund managers who have been buying gold has been growing. It is not just hedge funds…how about China. What I find interesting is the fact that the hedge fund managers who successfully called the housing crisis are [...]