Commodity Trading & Trend Following

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 [...]

The goal of trend following commodity trading advisors is the idea of absolute returns over long periods of time. What this means as much as there is a commodity trading advisor index or comparisons… there is not a standard benchmark. The goal of commodity trading advisors is to provide returns in all market conditions. However [...]

Successful commodity traders and forex traders know there is a random distribution of results of winners and losers. The majority of commodity traders and forex traders use some type of mechanical trading systems. The reason they use a mechanical trading system is that they can test out their plan and see the historical back tests [...]

One of the tenets I use in my quest to compound money… is not that I just do my own trading, I allocate to other Commodity trading advisors. In this recent conference I discussed how to analyze commodity trading advisors. My goal and my colleagues goal is to compound money over long periods of time. [...]