Notes on futures, options and hedging from an independent brokerage — written for people who trade, not for search engines.
The 60/40 portfolio assumes bonds rise when stocks fall. In 2022 they fell together. Here is how managed futures lower portfolio correlation — why they behave differently from stocks and bonds, the crisis-period track record, and why even a small allocation matters.
READ →NOAA has issued an El Niño Advisory with a 63% chance of a very strong event this winter. Here is what a strengthening 2026–27 El Niño could mean for coffee, cocoa, sugar, and palm oil — and how systematic traders and commercial hedgers approach it.
READ →CME Group will launch Single Stock futures this summer, pending regulatory review: 54 financially settled contracts on top U.S. stocks. What they are, how they work, the contract specs, and what they mean for active and systematic traders.
READ →Investors pour into trend following after banner years and bail during drawdowns — buying high and selling low. Why the disciplined move is to add during the drawdown, especially with event risk (El Niño, geopolitics, disaster season) building on the horizon.
READ →May CPI hit 4.2%, but it's an oil shock from the Iran war that's already reversing as the Strait of Hormuz reopens. Why we think inflation looks transitory — and why the Fed's next move may be a cut, not a hike.
READ →If your trend-following system has struggled, you're in good company — the largest CTA programs faced the same 2025 headwinds. Here's what the data shows, why the environment was so hostile, and how to navigate it without abandoning a sound process.
READ →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…
READ →Your edge is the strategy — realizing it is execution. Why systematic futures traders benefit from an experienced, conflict-free broker running their system live.
READ →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.
READ →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.
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