Managed futures are professionally managed investments in commodity and financial futures markets and has grown rapidly in popularity and acceptance in the last five years due to their potentially high returns and to their diversification and inflation hedging potential. Today there are over $25 million in managed futures accounts. However, managed accounts have experienced significant losses in the past two years and have become quite controversial.
Book Details:
- Author: Jack D. Schwager
- ISBN: 9780470346051
- Year Published: 1996
- Pages: 352
- BISAC: BUS036000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Investments & Securities / General
About the Book and Topic:
Managed futures are professionally managed investments in commodity and financial futures markets and has grown rapidly in popularity and acceptance in the last five years due to their potentially high returns and to their diversification and inflation hedging potential. Today there are over $25 million in managed futures accounts. However, managed accounts have experienced significant losses in the past two years and have become quite controversial.
Managed Trading will be the first substantive book on managed futures for CTAs and institutional investors written entirely by one of the most respected futures writers today. Investigative in its approach, the book will explode some commonly held myths about the business of managed futures and performance analysis.
No other name is more closely associated with the futures industry than that of Jack Schwager. In this latest edition of the Schwager on Futures series, Schwager examines the managed futures business in theory and application, explaining both the theoretical and methodical basis for performance. Readers eagerly await each new book published by Jack and will not want to miss out on this controversial examination of managed futures. Schwager explores common perceptions associated with the industry. Discusses investor behavior, the benefits of diversification, and the effect of adding managed futures to conventional portfolios.
About the Author
JACK D. SCHWAGER is Director of Futures Research and Trading atPrudential Securities. He formerly held similar positions at PaineWebber and Smith Barney, with a total of twenty-two years’experience heading up futures research departments. He is also aCommodity Trading Advisor and one of the coprincipals of WizardTrading. Mr. Schwager is the author of the highly regarded A Complete Guideto the Futures Markets, and the Schwager on Futures series thatincludes the titles Fundamental Analysis and Technical Analysis,all published by Wiley. His writing has appeared in manypublications, including the Handbook of Futures Markets, The NewYork Times, and Forbes. Much in demand as a speaker, he haslectured on a range of analytical topics, with a particular focuson great traders, technical analysis, and trading systemevaluation.