The ECB kicked off the central bank holiday festivities with a less-than-expected expansion of its Q€ program, disappointing the markets. Draghi did announce a reduction in the deposit rate and increase to the term of the monthly bond purchases, but did not increase the monthly €60 billion purchase amount as…
With 2016 right around the corner, we wanted to share with you one of our most popular blog posts: an updated list of the top FCMs. When doing research in selecting a futures commission merchant, or FCM, (i.e. custodian) to house your managed futures portfolio, it can be difficult to…
While the ECB’s decision to expand Q€ on December 3rd was important, the markets will be watching the actions and wording of Dr. Yellen and the US Federal Reserve on December 16th. The question of whether they will raise rates seems moot at this point – we are switching our…
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…