Commodities In Backwardation – Cheers
Article by RCM Alternatives Don’t look now, but it appears everyone’s talking about commodities these days. The latest is Zerohedge pointing out that more than…
Read MoreArticles by Attain Alternative Blog
Commodities Continue To Lead Asset Class Scoreboard YTD With RE In Dead Last
Article by RCM Alternatives Don’t look now, but commodities continue to lead the asset class scoreboard in 2018, as rising crude prices and a bounce…
What Funds Remain Highly Ranked After February’s Stress Test?
Article by RCM Alternatives Pain was felt throughout the Managed Futures world in the month of February. Some had very large positions in a single…
Q1 Asset Class Scoreboard – Commodities Lead, RE In Last
Article by RCM Alternatives It finally happened. The market went through a major move (in February) but the recovery wasn’t enough. Sure, there were really…
Launching A Futures Contract Is Hard
Article by RCM Alternatives While just about everyone was paying attention to wild up and downs of the market last week, those in the commodity world…
Four Straight Days Of 2% Moves
Article by RCM Alternatives It seems volatility is here to stay in 2018 and it’s coming from multiple areas. This time around, President Trump’s announcement…
What’s Wrong With AQR – Part II
Article by RCM Alternatives We went into depth about a year ago on what was wrong with AQR’s behemoth of a mutual fund: the AQR Managed…
Is the CTA Sky Crashing (Again)?
Managed futures is back in the headlines again, this time for its volatile performance to start off 2018 with Bloomberg going with the sensationalized headline…
Gundlach And Paul Tudor Jones Say It’s Time To Buy Commodities
Article by RCM Alternatives Don’t look now, but some grown in the ground commodities not named Oil have been rallying pretty strong the past month…
Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin 101
While Bitcoin tends to make most of the headlines, blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are being seen as an opportunity to change business models,…
25 Billion contracts
The FIA (Futures Industry Association) is out with their annual data showing just how big the futures and options (what we some might call derivatives)…
Why Did XIV Implode?
Article by RCM Alternatives While Credit Suisse is getting raked over the coals for its short Volatility product $XIV dropping $131 in 24 hours, many…
Managed Futures Having A Crazy 2018
Article by RCM Alternatives The last month and a half has been one crazy ride for an asset class that prides itself more on base…
Why This VIX Move Is Unique
Article by RCM Alternatives Yes. It’s another post about the VIXpocalypse, but when it’s been years since we’ve seen the VIX Index spike and stay…
A Volatility Trader Explains What Happened
Article by RCM Alternatives What exactly happened last week? Did equities sell off spark a spike in the VIX and blow out the billions of…