When it comes to your managed futures investments, you may have wondered how a CTA is able to ensure that all their clients have the same rate of return from month to month. Unlike a fund investment, when investing through a separately managed account, CTAs must ensure that all of…
How should an investor compare a CTA strategy they are considering investing with? How should a manager that is looking to market and promote his/her strategy to investors compare their strategy to other’s? These are common questions we receive from both our investors and the commodity trading advisors that we speak with.…
A strategy that has become more popular over the last 10 years in the managed futures space is something called option selling. Commonly known as selling options, option writing or selling premium, commodity trading advisors employ this technique in hopes of generating a profit for their investors. For many new…
Whenever an investor opens an account with a commodity trading advisor (CTA), they are required to read and sign a disclosure document (except when a CTA is for QEPs only and chooses not to have a disclosure document). A disclosure document is usually fifteen to forty pages long, and outlines…