Hey WinstonTJ, Thanks for the feedback - yes I am aware of differences with Mutual Funds (and I did not mean ETF). The idea is to have an...
Let's say that I have a succesful strategy for trading Direxion mutual funds that involve placing an order just before the close/end of trading...
re: Superfund, yes, this is the issue when CTAs offer multiple funds. I just have to pick one, in this case their traditional Superfund A I'll...
As an FYI, I track some "Trend Following Wizards" monthly performance - which I publish every month on the blog:...
You are raising an intetresting question - which I was actually asking myself lately. In which case why bother doing trend following just buy...
Agree with what you are saying in terms of mean reverting nature of the markets. However, I would tend to have a slightly different definition...
Thanks makloda, exactly my point :D The probem is that people have a short/selective memory... And many still hold the old Vic as a master...
Is that the same Niederhoffer that blew up in 1997 and in 2007? (and in 2017?..) :cool: I think Trend Following recognizes that you cant...
I think they were more into momentum investing originally, then tried to tap the retail market with mutual funds, now they are attacking another...
valid points, but I think one of the main aspect of trend following is profiting from diversification and I dont know of many instruments that...
AQR is a top hedge fund, managing around $24B in Assets. Lately, they have been making noise about their moving into the Managed Futures space...
I havent checked his performance to be honest. I think he is more in the fund of funds business. That would make sense as he wrote that book...
I wonder if the same would apply to me when I start trading the system that I am developping (ie over-estimate my tolerance to "pain"/drawdown)... :p
you can just give dummy information - there is no email activation link whatsoever. As long as the fields are populated in the correct format it...
:p link might look weird indeed but its nothing dodgy (although you're probably right to be on your guard generally ;-) It is just from bit.ly...
Found that cool video from the excellent Market Wizards book author Jack Schwager. The video is pretty long and very interesting and...
well I guess it depends if you think you can beat the S&P500 or not... Trend Followers clearly can outperform S&P 500 both on short term (cf...
Not sure what you mean?... How would that tell me how trend following has performed over a range of strategies and instruments for different...
But yet 2008 was quite outstanding for most CTAs on that list... My assumption is that trend following can be geared to look at many different...
If you fancy checking out the performance of top CTA trend following funds (Abraham, Chesapeake, Winton Cap, Transtrend, MAN, Eckhardt, Bill Dunn,...
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