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Managed Futures: Is It the Right Name?

Trend Following | January 4th, 2009

The regulatory and marketing term often applied to trend following traders is managed futures. Of course managed futures can refer to more than just the strategy of trend following trading, but the vast majority of managed futures funds are trend following based. Why bring this up? There is a thread on linkedin where a debate over the “managed futures” name is ongoing. I personally think the term managed futures says almost nothing to the average investor and or trader. It causes constant confusion. To me a term should describe the trading strategy, not an instrument traded, especially if the goal is to create awareness.

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4 Responses to “Managed Futures: Is It the Right Name?”

Michael Covel Says:
January 4th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Debate is in Managed Futures group on Linkedin.
Daniel DMC Says:
January 5th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Hi Mr Michael
do you have any estimate on how many Trend Followers does exist ?
And what is the average Anual return of them ?
Also the avergae back period that they trade there strategies ?

Best
DMC
Michael Covel Says:
January 5th, 2009 at 10:56 am
I have no estimate on how many trend followers there might be, but if you had that answer how would it help you? I don’t say that to be testy, but I don’t see the value. In terms of a nice location to find detailed performance data, your second two questions, go to http://www.iasg.com.
Daniel DMC Says:
January 6th, 2009 at 10:21 am
thanks

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