Monday, January 18, 2010

There was a recent article in the wall street journal asking the question, “Has The Black Box Broken? This is not something new to long time commodity trading advisors and trend followers. I have seen these articles over and over again. If anything it encourages me to even allocate to more commodity [...]

Friday, January 15, 2010
Who do you believe?… Jim Rogers came out today and predicts food shortages. Jim Rogers thinks there will be food shortages because of the financial crisis. He believes the agricultural sector is low on funds and inventories are at the lowest levels in decades. An example is a recent trade that most [...]

Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Everyone would love to know what would be the outlook for the commodity markets and commodity trading. After a roaring 2007 and 2008 it seemed that commodity trading advisors would know no limit. The stock markets collapsed in 2008 and fear was rampant through out the world. During the turmoil when virtually [...]

Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Lets face it…when we look at a $100 Bill. It says this note is legal tender for all debts public and private. More so. It says In God We Trust. However… Can we still believe in the central banks, the FDIC or for that fact any currency because at the end of [...]

Monday, January 11, 2010

It seems now almost acceptable that Americans can walk away from their mortgages. Why not? So many are upside down, owing more money on a house than the house is actually worth.
Many Americans are just walking away and renting virtually the same homes for half or a third of their previous mortgage [...]

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

There was an interesting article online of Forbes discussing Billionaire predictions that I glanced through this morning. My immediate thought was..Do these Billionaires know something that we don’t? They know better than us? What I expected was they had a variance of opinions as we all do…as well as they are optimistic.. [...]

Monday, January 4, 2010
Countless investors fear a double-dip recession. It is quite possible that a second drop of economic activity during 2010 will occur. It is also quite possible that the supportive actions of governments will run out. Even the central banks are not a bottomless pit ( as long at they have enought paper [...]

Monday, January 4, 2010
In my opinion…everything boils down to risk… not how much you can make..but how much you can lose in commodity trading. More so when we put on a trade..we think to ourselves mentally…how much is this going to cost me to see if the trade will work. The sad thing is that [...]

Wednesday, December 30, 2009
I am not a gold bug or an end of the world fanatic… but in all seriousness…Can Gold be the next currency? Honestly…As an investor, I became very concerned about having my assets denominated in U.S. dollars. Even if I was clever enough to denominate my assets in other currencies…the fact is [...]

Tuesday, December 29, 2009
You do not hear that often the word trend capture in commodity trading. Most of the time it is called Trend following. The difference however depending on how the commodity trader or commodity trading advisor trades there are times big draw downs occur as well as big profits are given back in [...]

Monday, December 28, 2009
There is a record wide spread on the yield curve currently. A record breaking 287 points. For those of you who do not know what the yield curve is…it is the difference between the 2 year and 10 year notes. Usually when there is a difference like this it usually means rapid [...]