Posts Tagged ‘ wheat ’

Seeking Alfalfa

Nov 24th, 2008 | By Adrian Ash | Category: Commodities, Economics, Energy, Featured, Gold, Investing Strategies
“Well, God knows you don’t need any brains to buck barley bags...” — John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937) Alpha used to be what hedge-fund managers promised their clients. Better still, portable alpha — defined in the easy bed-time reading of finance MBAs as the “generation of excess return over a benchmark ...read more


Trading Grains Can Deliver Serious Gains

Jun 8th, 2007 | By Whiskey Contributor | Category: Energy
In the past, at least for most of my 17-year career, the commodities markets have been a small part of the overall investment picture for most investors. The NYSE pooh-poohed the commodities exchanges as a form of gambling or worse. Average investors had little access to these markets, and those ...read more