We speak to many new CTAs that are in the early stages of developing their track records and still formulizing how they will market their strategy to outside investors. During this phase of their business, they are in the process of making many decisions that will impact the long-term success…
2021 has been a fairly strong year so far for many CTAs. While this post only displays the top 10 CTAs for the year, we could have easily made the list a top 20 list because we had enough positive performers. CTA indices are also doing well this year, with…
Over the years we have done blog posts that discuss common mistakes investors make when investing in managed futures. This time around, we decided we would do a similar blog but instead focus on commodity trading advisors (CTAs), specifically emerging CTAs. Since our inception, we have dealt with over two…
2020 followed 2019’s lead and was another good year for many CTA strategies. CTA indices were also up, with Barclay’s CTA index posting a positive return of 5.4% and, and the SocGen CTA Index posting a positive return of 3.1%. Agricultural strategies, which had been out of favor over the…