A little over a month ago RMB Big Move Trade Alerts recommended a two-step option strategy to take advantage of a possible bottom in silver – a market we felt wasn’t getting much attention. We… Read More
Managed Futures: A Look at Notional Funding
Unique to futures, notional funding is an investor’s ability to use hypothetical money in order to fund an account within a managed futures or CTA program. Notional accounts can only be utilized by investors who… Read More
Silver May Surprise Soon
“Hit em’ where they ain’t.” This phrase was made famous by baseball Hall of Famer and batting champ Willie Keeler who was known to surprise opponents by doing the unexpected – batting and bunting in… Read More
Weather Will Determine Direction of Key Commodities in 2016
Last year will go down as one of the worst for commodities. The slowdown in China and the strong US dollar were a brutal tag-team, decimating most commodity markets. Crude may have gotten all the… Read More
Mix and Match Managers and Markets for Smoother Performance
Individually managed futures continue to be one of the few asset classes where performance does not depend on a bull market in stocks or bonds. Futures traders can go short in any given market just… Read More
Are We Witnessing Capitulation …Or the Beginning of the End for Stocks?
The next few days could provide an answer. They say bull markets climb a “wall of worry” and bear markets decline on a “slope of hope.” If you believe in these old market truisms, then… Read More
Interest Rate Indecision Damaging Markets
The seemingly endless speculation about whether the Fed will raise interest rates is getting old. The Federal Reserve has telegraphed a long-awaited move off “zero” for months now, only to disappoint again and again –… Read More
Let’s Add Wheat to Our El Niño Portfolio
Sketchy weather in some of the major wheat-growing regions of the world appears to be putting a floor under wheat prices. Dry soil conditions that hampered the planting of winter wheat in Ukraine and Russia… Read More
Super-Strong El Niño Still Growing
It is shaping up to be the biggest in recorded history. But even if the El Niño currently heating up the waters off the coasts of Central and South America fails to make the record… Read More
Success and Style in Managed Futures
Markets change personality depending on the underlying emotions guiding them. At any given time, every single market is doing one of three things: going up in response to greed, going down due to fear or… Read More