Investors that actively manage their retirement accounts know that there are many restrictions on what they can do. Rules and regulations are not the same for your retirement nest egg as they would be for your everyday accounts. When it comes to investing in managed futures, investors may mistakenly assume…
When building portfolio proposals for prospective clients, aiSource thoroughly goes through all the CTAs included in the portfolio that a client may be investing in. A CTAs trading strategy, historical performance, and markets traded are some of the common things we discuss. Since most investors utilize managed futures as a non-correlated…
When our clients see Eurodollars futures being traded in their CTA accounts, they sometimes think that it is the Euro/USD currency pair. Eurodollars actually have nothing to do with Europe’s currency. Eurodollars are interest bearing bank deposits denominated in US Dollars and held at banks outside of the United States.…
While trading systems and commodity trading advisors (CTAs) may seem like a similar type of investment, there are many differences between the two that make them distinct. The primary difference is that a trading system tells the investor what trades he/she should enter. It is up to the investor to…