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In 2020, the US Growth Stocks Long/Short/Out strategy resulted in a maximum drawdown of 10.92% versus 28.56% for the long-only passive strategy. If we were to put these two approaches …

Introduction Wirecard, a German financial services provider, got huge publicity in June 2020 after an abrupt share price crash. On June 18th 2020, we saw Wirecard’s stock prices sharply fall …

In this article, we will address the danger of applying a long-only approach to US Equity Volatility – we already discussed the danger of a short-only approach. But it does …

Introduction In our second option trading article, we will in simple(st) terms address the risk measures of options. We will also discuss the key application of hedging by the issuers …

Corn has been in a bear market for the last 8 years, which I believe has ended and this market is in the very early stages of a substantial move …

Introduction In this four part article series, we will deliver a concentrated view of practical inputs regarding the basic options and their uses. In this first part, we begin with …

This is a follow-up of my previous report on December 9th. Stock markets are in a melt up phase that is about to end and change direction. The Advance/Decline line …

Introduction In this article, we continue the discussion from Part 2 of our ESG article series. However, in this third part of our series, we will shift focus to the …

Introduction We saw in one of our previous articles, that a gold investment has some merits but does not typically provide sufficient return in the (very) long-term. Today, we would …

Is it possible to sharply improve the risk-adjusted performance of global emerging markets equities using short-exposures? The answer is yes, by using short futures positioning at the level of the …