Commodity Trading & Trend Following

Last year we saw a significant move up in cotton. When I put this trade on it was no different than any other trade. It was simply a trend breakout trade with a low risk bet. When trend following most of your trades do not work. Bearing that in mind I take risks between .5% [...]

Yesterday I had an interesting conversation regarding courage and knowledge in commodity & forex trading. If you have been reading my blog you probably know my favorite two words for success in commodity trading are…Discipline and Patience…
However the idea of courage & knowledge puts a new light on the subject. The idea of knowledge, one [...]

Regardless if you are new to commodities (or forex) or if you have traded them in the past without much success and want to make a fresh start with either a commodity trading advisor or even a mechanical trading system … examine this preparation list to really determine if you are truly ready to begin [...]

One of the biggest differences in commodity trading is that many successful commodity trading advisors use trend following mechanical systems. Of course there are other commodity trading advisors that use pattern recognition …counter trend as well as basic fundamental analysis to base their decisions. However in my opinion, when a commodity futures trader uses a [...]

The basis of many successful trend followers are buy strength and sell weakness. This is the basis of our commodity trading at Angus Jackson Partners. We don’t simply buy. We use multiple systems for entries and focus on the risk. We do not risk more than 1% risk per trade..many are less…as well we do [...]