Quadriga Superfund - Managed Futures

Interesting observation with regards to correlation to the stock market, the Superfund B shares dropped about 9% from last week ...

 

Here are the guidelines:

Non-Accredited investors $225,000 in assets (x home auto) or 60k income/ 60k assets (x home auto)
Unit Size: $5,000

 

dwitherell,

I wonder why we haven't seen other CTA funds jump in and compete with Superfund at that market segment.

 

Hang on to your hats! The B shares are down -24.92% YTD.

 

Wow, a down year of 12%??? thats horrible. I dont think ill ever have a down year trading. A down month maybe, but a year???

 

primarily marketing and overhead cost. its nearly impossible to launch and support a low capital entry entity without substantial existing backing. the reward/risk equation offers much better potential results elsewhere. superfund is primarily a marketing machine,my hats off to CB for his success

regards, surf

 

Hey they made 19.74% last year, what's a little drawdown amongst friends?

Right Mav!

ebo

 

Here you go buddy:

2007 Performance:

Jan: -4.60 %
Feb: -11.47 %
March (Month to date): -11.10 %
YTD: -24.92 % (!!!)

Still horrible in my book, compared to ANYTHING, even if they are in the 99.9999% percentile

 

take a look at the baseball team owner JWH performance over the last 3 years.

 

Yeah see here's the problem. All you guys that are getting your rocks off on these numbers are not making any valid comparisons. Quadriga and most other trend following funds were long the world in pretty much all the index markets. We had a huge correction. All the trend funds got hit as did all the long only mutual funds. This is not rocket science. I would like to see how John Henry did and other trend following hedge funds. That is who you need to compare those numbers to.

Quadriga has consistently outperformed 98% of the trend following funds out there. If you don't like trend following funds and can't stop the volatility then don't invest in them.

Curtis Faith, one of the original turtles and member of this site has written extensively about the good and the bad among trend following. He has a book coming out in April that he allowed me to pre-screen. He talks extensively about being able to with handle the drawdowns that come with trend following. I believe at one point he had an 80% drawdown when he was trading for Richard Dennis. And he was the most successful of the original turtles!!!!!! Imagine that. He also made 20 million plus in a short time span starting with a million dollar account.

Anyway, I digress. If you guys want to argue about trend following and it's validity, he is a member of this forum and I'm sure he would be happy to debate it. But pointing at one particular trend following fund after one of the trends it was in collapses does not really add anything of substance to your argument.