Debt Crisis Watch And Managed Futures Strategy
Below is from the recent Opalesque Futures Intelligence I recently had an opportunity to ask Chicago Federal Reserve President Charlie Evans to define the risks in quantitative easing and related stimulus policies he has so aggressively pursued. In his speech [...]
Morgan Stanley and Equinox Team Up To Tackle European Market
After successfully launching four CTA strategies on Morgan Stanley’s FundLogic Alternatives platform in recent months, the prime broker announced plans to partner with managed futures participant Equinox and Longchamp Asset Management, a French asset manager, to enter the European regulated [...]
CTAs / CPOs Call For Industry Leadership in Horizon Cash Management Survey
The fastest growing segment of the financial services industry was the one hardest hit by MF Global’s suspicious demise and overt fraud at Peregrine Financial Group (PFG). The managed futures industry, which had grown from $14 billion under management in [...]
MF Global Criminal Investigation Likely Headed Into Final Stages
The MF Global investigation is expected to be entering its final stages after two and a half years of on again, off again activity. There will be several paths the investigation could take, the most likely of which starts at [...]
CTA Campbell & Company Releases Critical Interest Rate Study
Download the full study here: Prospects for CTAs in a Rising Interest Rate Environment Campbell & Company, a specialist in systematic trading strategies, touched on a hot button issue recently when it released its white paper “Prospects for CTAs in a [...]
CFTC Expected to Unveil New Thinking on HFT
A commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is expected to unveil a new method of defining High Frequency Trading, an elusive task for US regulators to date. CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton is expected to detail the proposal in [...]
February Opalesque Futures Strategies
February Opalesque Futures Strategies This issue outlines the P(A|B) Method for analysis of managed futures investments, discusses volatility investing concepts, discuss the appropriate process for selecting a managed futures investment, provide an interview with a short volatility trading program and [...]