Commodity Trading & Trend Following

Peter Brandt has written many great pieces on the MF Global Crisis. This is one. Hopefully the Trustee will claw back profits of Soros to the clients of MF Global.
How George Soros ended up with MF Global’s client money
By Peter Brandt
A warning to former MF Global segregated account holders: If the news has already been [...]

Trend followers never need to protect. Trend followers just need to make themselves available. Recently read an interesting piece by Kyle Bass. He calls Japanese govt bonds the trade of the century. His fundamental arguments make alot of sense. Kyle states many obvious issues such as the declining population in Japan yet the incremental costs [...]

While besides the fact that unemployment is increasing…besides the fact foreclosures are increasing and now spreading to some of the so called safer mortgages… besides the fact the insiders of stock have been selling widely ( For every share purchased…insiders have sold 18 shares) while short term traders are trading micro seconds…
Another proof of [...]

Every crisis has created major profits for commodity futures trading. When utilizing a Trend Following strategy a commodity trading advisor makes himself ‘available for oppurtunities”. Most of the time in commodity futures trading nothing happens. Interestingly enough, really nothing has to happen. However in commodity futures trading history virtually all of the crisis of the [...]

If we did not need more great news today as the stock fell approx 250 points, George Soros stated that the world financial system has effectively disintegrated, adding that there is yet no prospect of a near-term resolution to the crisis.