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Crisis Alpha: How Systematic Futures Strategies Profit When Everything Else Suffers

When stock markets collapse, most investments bleed together. Bonds, stocks, hedge funds — all moving in lockstep downward. The one exception: managed futures strategies that follow systematic, trend-based trading rules. The Problem with Traditional Diversification For decades, the standard portfolio recipe was simple: 60% stocks, 40% bonds. When stocks fell, bonds were supposed to rise.… Continue reading Crisis Alpha: How Systematic Futures Strategies Profit When Everything Else Suffers

Why It Pays to Let an Experienced Futures Broker Execute Your Trading System

Your edge is the strategy — realizing it is execution. Why systematic futures traders benefit from an experienced, conflict-free broker running their system live.

Managed Futures, May 2026: Trend Following Holds Through an Energy-Driven Reversal

Index returns for May 2026 vs. year-to-date. Source: SG Prime Services.

How broad managed futures indices fared in May 2026 — SG Trend, SG CTA, and SG Short-Term — and the energy-driven reversal, dollar strength, and gold consolidation that drove the spread between styles.

Overfitting in the AI Era: Why Most AI-Generated Trading Systems Fail in Live Markets

In-sample looks great. Live trading is where the truth lives.

AI generates hundreds of trading strategy variants in minutes — but overfitting is the dominant failure mode in systematic trading, and AI makes the temptation worse, not better. Here’s what real out-of-sample discipline looks like in the AI era.

How We Use AI to Develop and Test Trading Systems in Trading Blox

AI compresses ideation. Humans hold the discipline.

How we combine AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT with Trading Blox to develop, test, and iterate systematic futures strategies — and the guardrails that keep it from becoming an overfitting machine.

Managed Futures vs Hedge Funds: What Allocators Actually Need to Know

Two structures, very different mechanics.

Managed futures account or hedge fund? An honest comparison of structure, liquidity, transparency, fees, and tax treatment — from a 20-year IB.