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🗓️ 16 June 2020
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Which month of futures contracts should you trade?
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0:00.0 | Final question for today, I think we'll take this as the final one. |
0:07.0 | This is from Robert. |
0:10.0 | And let's see here, Robert asks, do you typically invests in the front contract when you receive a new trend signal or are you using proprietary techniques |
0:23.3 | to determine which dated contract to invest in if the latter how much do you estimate this adds |
0:29.9 | to your overall performance um i think um that that's an easy question for all of us to answer. |
0:40.1 | So I'll kick it over to you, Moritz, to begin with. |
0:42.7 | Yeah, I think we had that before. |
0:49.0 | It's in general, it's the front month contract with the exception of some of the short-term interest rate futures like, you know, your ribor or Eurodollar where you trade at a different part of the futures |
0:56.8 | curve to get more volatility essentially from their market. |
1:01.3 | But all the other markets, they are their front month. |
1:05.8 | Yeah. |
1:06.2 | Same on your side, Jerry. |
1:07.8 | Yeah, sure. |
1:08.2 | I think front month is good. |
1:09.7 | And there has been times over the years |
1:12.1 | where maybe I stayed a little longer in the front month or got out of the front month quicker |
1:17.3 | because I was trend following the spread. And there's been some commodity moves where there was |
1:24.1 | shortages and the front month was much stronger. So I tried to hold on, hold on as long as I |
1:29.6 | could. And that's another way of maybe getting a little bit of extra profit to trend follow the, |
1:35.2 | you know, the spread, actually. Yeah, that's a good point. And I would just finally add Robert to this, |
1:42.4 | that on our side, I would say the only market where we do look a little bit further out is when we talk about the VIX and the volatility space, where we have, you know, and it's not really a trend following model. |
1:56.6 | So, but I just want to mention that because you may have heard that come up. |
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