Managed Futures Funds Gain in Popularity and Performance

Excellent article from MarketWatch.  Of course to us it’s just preaching to the choir ... of negative performance. Managed Futures funds (also referred to as Commodity Trading Advisors or CTAs ... , commodity futures and currency markets. Managers who have done well to- date this quarter have generally [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 23:09:12

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DC’s Cosa Nostra

Judah Freed of examiner.com writes~ “Obama last week tapped Mary Schapiro to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ... Gensler to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Instability in the commodities markets ... financial advisor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Gensler has not yet shown to critics [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 06:54:25

Defensive Plays in Real Estate

Geoffrey Rogow of Dow Jones Newswires has this report on scattered corners of the REIT industry that are hanging in there ... ,” said Walter Prendergast, portfolio manager for Paradigm Capital Management Growth Advisors ... commodity, especially in a faltering economy when companies are looking to outsource data storage [more...]

Date: 2008-06-11 15:15:09

Oil Nears $100 — On the Way Down.

For a time, it looked as if the next round number of significance for oil was $200 a barrel, but unless something quite spectacular occurs, ... Consumers started to change their habits a bit,” says Scott Magnuson, commodity trading advisor at MF Global. David Aleman, senior trade analyst with Grand Central Trading Co. in Newport Beach, Calif., [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 16:13:40

Four at Four: OPEC Gets Burned

This is a situation the market has not witnessed in some time: declines in oil, the dollar, bond yields and stocks ... Scott Magnuson, commodity trading advisor at MF Global. “The perception of another six to seven ... Paul Brigandi, vice president of trading at Direxion Funds. macys_art_160_20081217161108.jpg [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 12:26:00

Four at Four: OPEC Gets Burned

This is a situation the market has not witnessed in some time: declines in oil, the dollar, bond yields and stocks ... Scott Magnuson, commodity trading advisor at MF Global. “The perception of another six to seven ... Paul Brigandi, vice president of trading at Direxion Funds. macys_art_160_20081217161108.jpg [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 12:26:00

A Look Back to 2008 and Forward to 2009

I’d like to wish everyone a happy New Year. It’s incredulous that we are now in 2009 ... (IB) and Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA). The number of brokerage relationships also doubled ... . This is a year that I hope you come closer to more of your trading goals. I would like to thank [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 18:39:00

Monday links: brash market calls

“For the first time in a couple of decades, stocks are now relatively cheap (US, developed markets, emerging) ... system is like a “stagnant, smelly swamp.”  (Global Investing) Commodity trading advisors (CTAs [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 16:22:34

Trading Post Brokerage now a CTA

It’s been a busy holiday season – the busiest I think I’ve ever had with my young family ... as a Commodity Trading Advisor. ... . It happened under the radar a couple of weeks ago, but Trading Post Brokerage Services, in addition [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 07:54:37

Waiting for Gustav

Investors in energy markets are nervously watching the path of Gustav, ... , commodity trading advisor at MF Global. “Now, markets are nervous, so it’s a reason to buy ... at Alaron Trading. “With demand already being poor [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 17:30:06

Oh, and Oil Is Rallying Again

The surest path to an oil-market rally is through the road that leads from Tehran to Jerusalem, with perhaps a side trip to Lagos. [ ... once again,” says Scott Magnuson, commodity trading advisor at MF Global. Nigeria is in the mix [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 14:28:03

Managed Futures Shine in 2008 Massacre

Managed futures funds or Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) ... % gain for the CSFB/Tremont Managed Futures Index. Only dedicated short-sellers have outpaced CTAs ... as margins collapse and assets nosedive. It’s a different story altogether for managed futures this year [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 15:14:05

Remember $50 a Barrel Oil? It Has Returned.

Remember $50 a Barrel Oil? It Has Returned. Posted by David Gaffen ... , falling to one-third of that price in recent trading. Scott Magnuson, commodity trading advisor at MF Global, says oil could eventually settle into a trading range in the $45 to $50 area, but to date [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 15:03:47

Managed Futures Shine in 2008 Massacre

Managed futures funds or Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) ... , trade over 100 highly liquid global futures contracts, including stock indexes, bond indexes ... compared to a 15.6% gain for the CSFB/Tremont Managed Futures Index. Only dedicated short-sellers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 19:38:44

WHY ETFS

Carl Delfeld Carl Delfeld is head of the global advisory firm Chartwell Partners and editor of Chartwell Advisor ... baskets of stocks, currencies or commodities. Some ETFs offer relatively low-risk, broadly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:50:06

Investors Smitten With CTAs, Sour On Hedge Funds

Commodity trading advisors have outperformed their hedge fund counterparts through the financial crisis and investors have taken notice. read more [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 00:07:00

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Date: 2008-12-27 01:04:30

Open the Online trading account of Karvy

Karvy Fortune a business franchisee of Karvy Stock Broking Ltd, ... such as stock, commodities and insurance broking, investment banking, mutual funds distribution ... Advisor. http://www.karvy.com/v2/fortune/index.asp [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 10:06:40

in Financial Press | Short Selling | Trading There were a sew of articles in the papers today about just how much money those damned shorts are ... Partners I, from various commodity-related investments, among other areas. It isn't necessarily ... by Spitalfields Advisors, the London-based firm specializing in securities lending, show. Almost [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 16:26:57

Morning Brief: U.S. and Iraq nearing troop agreement

Morning Brief: U.S. and Iraq nearing troop agreement Thu, 08/21/2008 - 9:54am Top Story Khalid Mohammed - Pool/Getty Images U.S ... of speculators appear to rule the oil markets. According to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... for the New York Times Magazine. Obama advisors Richard Clarke and Susan Rice slammed "quick-draw [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 13:05:11

Obama's team

DOMESTIC TEAM Ray LaHood Transportation Secretary Hilda Solis Labor Secretary Ron Kirk U.S ... Dan Tarullo Member, Federal Reserve Board Gary Gensler Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... D. Romer Director of the Council of Economic Advisors Melody C. Barnes Director of the Domestic [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 10:10:45

Investment Banks, By the Numbers

At the beginning of 2007 the five major investment-banking firms (not including those, such as J.P. Morgan Chase & Co ... tons, both on bets in currency and commodity markets, and on the trading of those assets ... billion Merrill Lynch financial advisors, second quarter 2008: 16,690 Bank of America financial [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 15:09:09

Capitulation Nation

There will not be a sign like this to let you know it is safe ... Advisors. Some of this may be taking place — high-flying agricultural and commodity-based stocks ... Index, or the VIX, to levels above 30, suggesting heightened worry. Of late the VIX was trading below [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 09:28:00

Eric Holder Is Obama’s Senior Legal Advisor

Eric Holder is a senior legal advisor to President-Elect Barack Obama ... ’s pardon of Rich, a Democratic commodities trader who fled to Europe to avoid charges of tax [more...]

Date: 2008-11-08 20:16:24

Gold Sale Spurs Manipulation Talk

MarketWatch is reporting Gold Sale Spurs Manipulation Talk Recent heat from Congress and regulators, along with public speculation, over whether commodity prices are being manipulated has also reached gold pits, where the debate ... , an investment advisor at Sitka Pacific Capital Management, in an online blog post on Wednesday. Banks [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 06:21:11

forex avenger Greetings fellow forex traders. I just found out that there is a new forex trading course called Forex Avenger ... is NOT an automated trading system - i.e it is not an EA (expert advisor). It is though a 100% mechanical trading system, which seems to be the hot commodity everyone is looking for in the forex world. Here [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 15:02:36

2009 New Year Address

2008 was a disastrous year for world market. We witnessed global recession triggered by US credit crisis, ... economies.But we do have silver linings: commodity is cheap, inflation is low, and world central ... and resolute. With a team of gifted advisors, the US President-elect Obama and Fed are willing to take whatever [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 01:52:00

Population Bombs

Try as he might, Ross "every sperm is sacred" Douthat cannot locate a "key insight" about population growth in Ehrlich's book ... to fall in price unto the end of time, which is why trading in commodity futures is performed ... it is no less than John Holdren, Barack Obama's new science advisor, who claimed to have found [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 16:27:00

Mind Games of Trading (Paperback)

Mind Games of Trading by Stephen Mepstead Review & Details Buy Mind Games of Trading Now Editorial Reviews Product Description " ... appointed in 1993, through to 2001, as trading advisor and consultant to M.A.M. He was a member ... No matter what markets you are turning your attention to: financials, equities, commodities, forex [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 08:29:00

President Obama to Inherit Bush Recession and Record Deficits

By: John_Mauldin Nov 01, 2008 This week we survey the economic landscape that the new president will inherit ... liquid. And if you are an advisor or broker and would like to see the managers on his platform ... investments, including hedge funds and actively managed commodity funds, has done this year, I suggest [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 18:37:07

Sitka Pacific 3rd Quarter Results

Regular readers of this blog know that I am an investment advisor representative for Sitka Pacific ... we have witnessed for a very long time. The equity markets declined over 9% for the month, commodities [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 10:09:00

Predicting the grain market is like checking the chicken entrails

If you drive down state Route 46 north of the Eastwood Mall, there used to be a sign for a “reader and advisor.” You see one of those once in awhile ... . Now that we are back in the fours on futures, we can look for that next 50 cents, or we can expect ... now is that we have lost demand. All commodities, farm and nonfarm, are trading lower. Gas is [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 07:58:13

Listen to this article

Homosexual brain resembles that of opposite sex: study PhysOrg Blogger arrests hit record high BBC ... about Clinton corruption too (please, the commodity trading, the sale of the Lincoln bedroom, the list goes ... of the CIA who was also given a two star general rank as an advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff [more...]

Date: 2008-06-17 05:43:51

Commodities bull market not over, says Skarica: Part I

Largest moves always at the beginning and the end David Skarica, author of the Addicted to Profits newsletter, ... inflation, a super pop in gold stocks, and the demise of an empire. A financial advisor who earned ... and discovered that there’s a similar trading pattern when you reach the true bottom. A panic like we saw [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 18:22:12

McCain Economics -- Had Your Phil Yet?

Today, John McCain said "the fundamentals of this economy are strong" and promised to "reduce the burden of government ... as a likely advisor in a future administration. But while Gramm was Chairman of the Senate Banking ... are the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB) in 1999, and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 22:37:14

Will energy show us that inflation and deflation can occur at the same time?

At the beginning of this decade investment advisor Marc Faber told incredulous investors that rising economic prosperity in Asia signalled the ... has important implications for what is currently unfolding in the financial and commodity markets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 19:30:00

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