Sunday, January 16, 2011

Managed Futures Program and Risk

Our managed futures program, zFutures, has been appearing on the leaderboards at Collective2 for a while. There seems to be a glitch, but the program is still appearing on their System Finder filter:


zFutures averages more than 2 weeks per trade, which helps its "realism," "slippage" stats -- as well as longer-term performance with respect to commissions. zFutures' components (z-Trader Financials and z-Trader Commodities) will have similar results in the long-term -- although this month, commodities have been profitable while financials have been consolidating / reversing.

With the recent volatility in financials, there has been a lot of chatter about risk management. We like Collective2's analytical tools. We note that zFutures has "Low" (or na) risk in every single trade it has made - except one, which was "Normal." In addition, the less-diversified Commodities & Financial components have "Low" to "Normal" risk levels. These programs are slightly more aggressive to achieve lower account sizes, but use the same trading approach.

Risk management and preventing losses from accumulating are key parts of all of our programs -- and are key to "surviving volatility" and good long-term performance.

AN INVESTMENT IN FUTURES MAY RESULT IN LOSSES.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS.

THESE RESULTS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED HYPOTHETICAL, WHICH CARRIES MANY INHERENT LIMITATIONS.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Hello,

are you trading in the forex market?

c said...

Yes; we trade in Forex.

We trade in just about any liquid market: commodities, currencies, interest rates, stock indices, Forex.

Thanks for reading.

- Carlton

c said...

Note that on Collective2 -- our programs focus on futures contracts.