All commodity trading advisors, whether discretionary or systematic, use a component of technical or fundamental analysis in their investment strategy. While we have previously written an article on the performance of each type of CTA, this article will discuss the “ins and outs” of each type in more detail. It’s…
aiSource is often approached by many different types of investors on the benefits or drawbacks in investing with emerging CTAs. Some aggressive investors are looking for the next best CTA/strategy and willing to take on more risk, whereas a more conservative investor looks for a more established or proven CTA/strategy.…
When we tweeted the following article: http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/28/investing/stock-market-democrats-republicans/index.html , we immediately thought it would be interesting to see what impact the President’s political party had on managed futures performance. In order to conduct this exercise, we decided to use the Barclay’s BTOP50 index since it goes all the way back to…
At aiSource, we believe that monthly rate of returns reported by CTAs only tell half the story. By looking at monthly returns, you’re only reviewing a small data set of numbers; for example, a three year track record has only thirty six monthly returns (i.e. 36 data points). Since investing…