Commodity Trading & Trend Following

Robert Prechter thinks that a stock market crash will happen. One of my colleagues forwarded his Elliot Wave projections.

However investing on tips ( which everyone seems to want) is not healthy for ones investment pocket. One needs to put into perspective that as correct Robert Prechter was in 1987 regarding the crash…investors that heeded his [...]

There was a recent article in the wall street journal asking the question, “Has The Black Box Broken? This is not something new to long time commodity trading advisors and trend followers. I have seen these articles over and over again. If anything it encourages me to even allocate to more commodity trading advisors. [...]

Who do you believe?… Jim Rogers came out today and predicts food shortages. Jim Rogers thinks there will be food shortages because of the financial crisis. He believes the agricultural sector is low on funds and inventories are at the lowest levels in decades. An example is a recent trade that most trend followers are [...]

Will Gold be the Only Currency?
Lets face it…when we look at a $100 Bill. It says this note is legal tender for all debts public and private. More so. It says In God We Trust. However… Can we still believe in the central banks, the [...]

Walking away from Mortgages
It seems now almost acceptable that Americans can walk away from their mortgages. Why not? So many are upside down, owing more money on a house than the house is actually worth.
Many Americans are just walking away and renting virtually the same homes for half or a third [...]

There was an interesting article online of Forbes discussing Billionaire predictions that I glanced through this morning. My immediate thought was..Do these Billionaires know something that we don’t? They know better than us? What I expected was they had a variance of opinions as we all do…as well as they are optimistic.. Really they are [...]

In my opinion…everything boils down to risk… not how much you can make..but how much you can lose in commodity trading. More so when we put on a trade..we think to ourselves mentally…how much is this going to cost me to see if the trade will work. The sad thing is that most people [...]

Trend Capture
You do not hear that often the word trend capture in commodity trading. Most of the time it is called Trend following. The difference however depending on how the commodity trader or commodity trading advisor trades there are times big draw downs occur as well as big profits are given back in trend following. [...]

In the world we live in, nothing is easy. No one is spared sorrow, pain, and sometimes anger associated with their mistakes. Lets face it …we all make mistakes. Mistakes in commodity trading are costly. However sometimes it is the best money spent if we learn from them. However…all too many commodity traders do not [...]

Quick answer…there is no easy way to make money in commodity trading. Sorry about that. No get rich quick schemes. The fact is once in a while you hear of someone who made a killing in the commodity markets ( Remember Hillary Clinton and her $100k Cattle Trade)..but it is not reality. What is reality [...]