Following the Trend: Diversified Managed Futures Trading (Wiley Trading)

An up-to-date and practical roadmap for diversified futures trading using CTA fund strategies In the newly revised second edition of Following the Trend: Diversified Managed Futures Trading , renowned hedge fund founder and asset manager Andreas F. Clenow presents a systematic asset management methodology in a way that allows readers to emulate the success of CTA industry professionals. In the book, you’ll find performance and attribution details for every year between 2002 and 2021 and detailed explanations of how the markets, industry, and strategy have evolved between the publication of the first edition and today. The author also offers: Detailed discussions of whether CTA hedge funds continue to show high internal correlation and exhibit homogeneous behaviour The impact of low and negative interest rate environments, massive inflows into equity markets, and the rise of quant trading firms Explorations of the combination of different types of trading models to enhance performance, complete with rulesets and fulsome analyses A ground-breaking and thoroughly incisive examination of the commodity trading advisor industry, Following the Trend: Diversified Managed Futures Trading is an essential volume for sophisticated retail traders, day traders, private investors, investment managers, portfolio managers, and institutional investors. "The highly successful first edition of Following the Trend: Diversified Managed Futures Trading presented a systematic asset management methodology employed by the CTA industry, explaining their strategies in such a way as to enable the reader to emulate their success. This fully updated new edition: Reviews whether CTA hedge funds continue to show high internal correlation and to exhibit homogeneous behavior, and explores the reasons for potential deviations. Explains why and how the financial markets have changed and how that has impacted everything, including the trading strategy of the CTA industry. Changes include a low and negative interest rate environment, massive inflows, the rise of quant trading firms, etc. Explores additional, related strategies. Combining different type of models can greatly enhance performance, and this is how the industry currently operates; such strategies are explained fully, complete with rulesets and an analysis of the value of combining such models with the core trend approach"-- Provided by publisher