Crude Oil Futures for April 2020 settled down $1.38 @ $32.98/bbl trading in a $3.79 range including the overnight-RBOB settled down 4.68/cpg and Heating Oil settled down 1.19/cpg. The American Petroleum Institute’s weekly petroleum storage report released late Tuesday afternoon…
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When John Vassallo moved to New York in 1988 to take a job on the trading floor with Rafferty Associates he had no idea it would lead to the launch of a company that would grow and expand for the…
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2019 was somewhat of a breakout year for commodity trading advisors (CTAs) and the managed futures industry. The BarclayHedge CTA Index returned 5.28%, its best year since 2014 and only its second positive year since that breakout year. The index,…
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Registration Has Opened For The 2020 CTA Challenge We receive inquiries from Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) throughout the year about getting added to the CTA Challenge. By design this campaign is a revolving annual event that evaluates investment program…
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Stay Tuned - Sign-Ups Begin Soon For The 2020 CTA Challenge October begins the initial sign-up period for the 2020 CTA Challenge. CTAs that are not currently participating in 2019 should contact Coquest to have their programs added to…
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The Ups And Downs With Volatility Last week I traveled to Chicago, joining hundreds of Managed Futures industry insiders that had converged in the windy city for overlapping annual conferences. One was the CTA Expo and Emerging Manager Forum,…
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Now in its 7th consecutive year, the Coquest CTA Challenge finds success in utilizing a proprietary model for performing quantitative and qualitative evaluations of alternative investment programs. The results of these evaluations are presented as annual rankings and advertised to…
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The Consistent Leaderboard The current top 5 leaders in the CTA Challenge so far in 2019 have, for the most part, remained in the top 5 all year. Despite some minor moves, we have not really seen the other 85…
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Now in its 7th consecutive year, the Coquest CTA Challenge finds success in utilizing a proprietary model for performing quantitative and qualitative evaluations of alternative investment programs. The results of these evaluations are presented as annual rankings and advertised to…
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Crude Oil Futures for October settled up $0.93 @ $56.71/bbl trading in a $1.46 range including the overnight-RBOB settled up 0.23/cpg and Heating Oil settled up 1.30/cpg. According to Energy Information Administration data, last week saw crude stocks at the…
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Crude Oil Futures for October settled up $0.85 @ $55.78/bbl trading in a $1.41 range including the overnight-RBOB settled up 3.25/cpg and Heating Oil settled up 3.51/cpg. The American Petroleum Institute’s weekly storage data released late Tuesday afternoon showed that…
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Crude Oil Futures for October settled up $1.29 @ $54.93/bbl trading in a $1.34 range including the overnight-RBOB settled up 3.34/cpg and Heating Oil settled up 2.35/cpg. The EIA currently estimates that U.S. crude oil production averaged 11.7 mil/bpd in…
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Crude Oil Futures for October settled down $0.53 @ $53.64/bbl trading in a $2.30 range including the overnight-RBOB settled down 2.63and Heating Oil settled down 2.32/cpg. Wednesday morning’s weekly Department of Energy Crude Oil storage data showed a decrease of…
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Crude Oil Futures for September settled up $0.43 @ $54.93/bbl trading in a $1.64 range including the overnight-RBOB settled down .88. and Heating Oil settled down .22/cpg. Last Wednesday morning’s weekly Department of Energy Crude Oil storage data showed a…
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Crude Oil Futures for September settled up $2.17 @ $57.10/bbl trading in a $3.36 range including the overnight-RBOB settled up 7.12/cpg. and Heating Oil settled up 7.15/cpg. As of Tuesday morning, NYMEX traded WTI futures are still down more than…
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