btw, I would not allow our PR Dept. to release information to the public that I had not already priced into the market.
I model for commercial order flow, and hold positions based upon that order confirmation. We let them do the heavy lifting in terms of turning the market. And we hold through numbers. Because numbers help us.
I trade spreads based on the seasonality filtering with fundamentals and some price and scenario analysis... I think is one of the best way to trade spreads(it is my opinion), and the results are similar like Bone`s Client, spectacular profit, not huge downdrow, and low margins... Greg
Bone, based on your experience how much is considerated a good retur trading commodity spreads,for an $100.000 account, of course not just the return is important, also the volatility and the max dawdown???? Thanks Greg
Greg, for clients with accounts under $100K who are now in the live markets I have been seeing about 10 % per month average ROI, with about a 2.2% monthly average max drawdown and annualized Sharpe Ratios at about 8.0 with today's Ten Year Note yield. Now, those are clients who choose to report to me - but I think it is a fair representation knowing how I do trading my own personal account. As you know, it gets kinda chippy with the human element. Volatility is entirely up to my client's choice of market space - we have hundreds of spreads, and an RBOB Crack can have a 98 % 20 day historical vol and a Eurodollar Calendar can have a 8 % 20 day historical vol so the spectrum is very wide. The good news is that clients can pretty much choose how mild or wild they like their markets to be.
If you have good timing and good reward/risk ratio, you can trade on Runes as well or the I-ching or analyzing pigeons droppings...
I know a CFA fund manager who routinely slap the averages. Technicals or sentiment dont ever enter his decision making process.