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  • Commodity ETF Strategies: Now and Future by ValidFi
    Managed futures has been long recognized to be an excellent portfolio diversifier. However, long only commodity investment is not good enough. For example, in this 2008-2009 period, commodity ETFs such as DBC, GSG based on broad based commodity indexes and most of ETFs based on narrow commodity... More »
    August 23, 2009 • DBE, DBB, DBP
  • High Yield Energy Investments by MTRIG
    Investors looking for ways for the highest investment returns tend to look beyond the stock market toward the futures market. Trading in futures long and short can involve more risk then trading in the stock market. This can happen if an investor is long a particular investment such as Oil... More »
    August 22, 2009 • ETP, PBT, SJT
  • Portfolio Diversification over Diverse Asset Classes with Multiple Investment Strategies by ValidFi
    The 2008 markets taught us a valuable lesson that just merely holding once considered 'diversified' assets in a portfolio is not sufficient or, at best is very difficult,  to reduce the systemic risk: during the 2008 market stress, almost all of assets (other than the US treasuries and... More »
    July 27, 2009 • SPY, MDY, IWR
  • Stagflation? Try Benflation! by Timmothy Posey
    It has been said again and again that the only way out of debt is to inflate the overall economy in such a way that the consumers who are the possessors of such debt will be able to pay their way out with inflated dollars. That so far has been the Bernanke Playbook since Day 1. Many of my fellow... More »
    June 15, 2009 • DBE, USL
  • Weather Trends International 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook by Michael Ferrari
     2009 Hurricane Season Outlook Posted by Rich Woolley VP Operations and Michael Ferrari, PhD, VP Commodities   WTI’s proprietary hurricane season forecast technology indicates that the total number of named storms in 2009 will once again be fewer than last year.  The model... More »
    May 22, 2009 • DBC, DBE, UNG
  • Commodity Index Funds - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly by Living4Dividends
    Because of renewed fears of inflation, there has been considerable interest in Commodity Funds as of late. For good reason: during that last bull market, commodities experienced a great run-up in prices. On The Plus Side Commodities are an excellent inflation hedge.Commodity Index Funds have... More »
    May 9, 2009 • DBA, DBB, DBC
  • The Risk to Oil ETFs by Hedged In
     In Lessons on How to Guzzle Less Gas, From Europe and Japan, author Jad Mouawad cites some interesting stats:Oil use in the US rose over 20% between 1973 and 2007. During that time, Germany and France cut their oil demand by 25%, and Japanese demand is flat.Gasoline taxes in the US... More »
    April 6, 2009 • UCR, UBN, JJE

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