Managed Futures

Mr. Barrett has a broad background in the financial industry and years of trading experience. He has gained in-depth knowledge of options and futures trading strategies including, but not limited to, long conversions and reversals, synthetic puts and calls, scalping & spreading. He developed strategies to take advantage of low risk/high reward opportunities in the futures market.

This spread trading program includes but not limited to: Cattle, Hog, Soybean, Soymeal, Cotton, Sugar, Gasoline, and Crude Oil. It uses a unique commodity spread trading methodologies and techniques with appropriate technologies for entry and exit coupled with prolific use of specialized stops for optimized trading. Using an astute money management system, specialized stops and efficient entry signals, the advisor seeks to execute trades only when the technical and fundamental factors meet his trading criteria. His trading priority is safety of principal first and profit second. As such, stops are used in all his trades. The advisor will seek profits from trading the commodity spreads and may invest account assets in interest bearing US Treasury Bills. The strategy behind the program is proprietary and confidential.

Technical analysis is not based on the anticipated supply and demand of cash (actual) commodity; instead it is based on the theory that a study of the markets themselves will provide a means of anticipating futures prices. Technical analysis of the markets often includes a study of the actual daily, weekly, and monthly price volume and open interest data, utilizing charts and or computers for analysis of these items.

Conversely, fundamental analysis is based on the anticipated supply and demand of cash (actual) commodity, as well as other such factors that are external to market operations. The factors include such things as weather reports, acreage planted, strength of the dollar, cattle on feed reports, and other such reports.