Jack Schwager – Schwager on Futures. Managed Trading

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Jack Schwager – Schwager on Futures. Managed Trading

With Market Wizards and The New Market Wizards, two of the best-selling financial titles of all time, Jack Schwager is one of the most important and visible figures in the futures industry today. Now in Managed Trading, the latest volume in the Schwager on Futures series, take a deep look at the increasingly prominent new asset class: managed futures, professionally managed investments in commodity markets, and financial futures. Due to their potentially high yields and their potential for diversification and inflation coverage, managed futures have grown rapidly in popularity and acceptance in the last decade. Today, there are more than $ 25 million in managed futures accounts. Schwager’s large-scale review covers all aspects of this investment sector, encompassing performance appraisal, manager selection, timing of investment, and portfolio considerations. In the process, it exploits many common investment myths. Managed Trading is the most important book on the subject, and an indispensable Schwager title that no investor should be without.
The following are some of the many topics covered:
Why “real” trading results are sometimes wrong
Why do many investors in managed futures lose money even when selecting a winning manager?
Why is changing assets from “winners” to “losers” often an excellent strategy?
Why it is generally better to invest in managers when they are experiencing cutbacks rather than
when they are on winning streaks
Why the actual performance of funds and mutual funds deteriorates dramatically from the results
of the prospectus
Is past performance predictive of future performance?
Is adding managed futures to conventional portfolios beneficial or detrimental to performance?
Is diversification beneficial?
Performance measures: conventional and new.
Why all conventional CTA indices are misleading

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