Corn, soy and wheat are up and that is helping cotton," said Sid Love,
commodity trading adviser at Kansas-based Sid Love Consulting.
Ritholz left Mobil in 1998 to start JMR Energy Inc., an energy
commodity trading adviser to institutional accounts and high-net-worth individuals.
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As a well-known
commodity trading adviser, Tinghino developed a cyclical model for market timing which relies on a combination of many separate cycles.
Gary Shilling, an economic consultant and
commodity trading adviser. In his recent book, Deflation, he points out that current deflationary forces include technological advances, increased productivity, and new markets in less-developed regions, which drive prices down without threatening corporate earnings.
That is what a diversified
commodity trading adviser can add to a portfolio.
That led to the sell-off in equities, likely exacerbated by forced selling by
commodity trading advisers and by delta hedging among those shorting options and volatility targeted strategies.
For Wall Street, the big worry is that complying with those restrictions may force their brokers who facilitate futures transactions to register as
commodity trading advisers -- a label that brings unwanted regulatory burdens.
Trend-following hedge funds, sometimes referred to as systematic investors or
commodity trading advisers, were distinctly out of fashion at the start of the year, with the sector having struggled with high levels of correlation between the assets they traded.
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"We've had a pretty big sell-off over the last couple of days, and CTAs (
commodity trading advisers) have been getting out.