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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:01 am
by kianti
Chris67 wrote:Its interesting to note how neither of these funds DH has mentioned are trend followers - but they are CTA's - Once again paying homage to the fact that CTA Does nOt equal trend follower and therefore you cannot compare their M/E ratio's with somebody like Abraham as its comparing apples to oranges
Maybe you can, please correct me if I got it wrong.
SPAN: March/April 2008
SPAN:The First 20 Years
Happy anniversary! With little fanfare the CME Group is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the launch of Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risk, or SPAN—a methodology for evaluating risk and calculating margin requirements that revolutionized futures and options risk management when it was introduced and today serves as an industry standard around the world.
If there's a SPANNER around, it would be nice to see a chart of historical margins, CT,SB,...

SPAN

Best regards, as ever

Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:50 am
by LeapFrog
LeviF wrote:
LeapFrog wrote:...I have run as high as 80 percent margin to equity intraday and often average around 40 to 50 percent.
What sort of drawdowns are you realizing with this level of heat?
A level that I can stand - less than the numbers above though.

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:46 pm
by LeviF
Where'd the charts go?

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:53 pm
by DPH
Whoops, was messing around with my website and accidentally erased them! I'll re-post them here shortly.

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:26 am
by LeviF
What is the definition of "average drawdown"?

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:47 am
by DPH
Levi,

Good question, I subscribed to, and compiled the data from Barclay Hedge, but I do not have their exact definition of average drawdown. I will find out and post back.

In the meantime, if you are interested, you can view an “interactiveâ€

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 8:07 am
by kianti
Silver Investors Dump Futures as Comex Boosts Speculator Trading Costs 84%
[quote]CME raised margins after “unprecedented high levels of volatility,â€

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 4:53 pm
by Chelonia
Who made money today?

After today´s sell-off our equity was unchanged at close of business compared to yesterday´s closing equity.

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 8:33 pm
by LeviF
Chelonia wrote:Who made money today?

After today´s sell-off our equity was unchanged at close of business compared to yesterday´s closing equity.
Ha, getting killed so far this month.

Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 6:54 am
by Chris67
who turned the lights off ?

does anyone still doubt that when one trade ends violently - all established trends seem to go with it
witness may 2006
summer 2008
yesterday

crude down 16% in 24 hours at one point this morning silver down 35% in a week or so !!! oh i love trend folowing
i believe in markets / trends etc - but sometimes its just s aliitle hard to believe bigger manipulative hands are not at play - witness this mornings stop loss run in crude oil = nothing more nothing less
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