If you have not heard by now, most people who trade
commodities lose money. Most of the
estimates range in the 80 to 95 percent range of those who have lost or who are
losing in the world of trading commodities.
Those statistics are dismal for someone who wants to venture into
trading commodities. Fortunately, in my
opinion, a large amount of this...
Natural gas is suffering the woes of plentiful supplies this year and the lack of a catalyst to push prices higher. As a result, natural gas futures prices have dropped about 28 percent from the peak this year in March. The fundamental picture doesn’t look good at this point and the market will probably need some significant...
One of the single best things you can do to further your
education in trading commodities is to keep thorough records of your
trades. Maintaining good records
requires discipline, just like good trading.
Why Keep Trading Records?
Most professional traders, and those who consistently make
money from trading commodities, keep diligent records of...
Time decay of futures options is a major factor option
traders must consider before they buy a futures option contract. Time decay of options means that options
theoretically lose money every day, since they have a limited life.
All futures option contracts have an expiration date.
Basically, an option contract is a bet that a market...
Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) have been performing
fairly well as a whole thus far in 2019 with Autumn Gold CTA
index (non-investable) reporting 5.79% YTD. The Barclay
CTA Index is up about 7.61 percent as of August. Both indices are comprised
of about 400 - 500 CTAs of various strategies and markets traded. This is
slightly better than their Hedge
Fund Index of...
