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Re:One of Wall Street’s Most Popular Trading Strategies Is N... by piker on Sunday March 03, 2019 @06:30AM (#19293953)
Why does this article call them CTAs? Being a "commodity trading adviser" is a CFTC regulatory status, not a trading strategy. Those issues are orthogonal. One would have expected them to be referred to as algorithmic traders or algos or something.
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Re:One of Wall Street’s Most Popular Trading Strategies Is N... by rorygreig on Sunday March 03, 2019 @07:02AM (#19294065)
My understanding is that CTA is a general term for a hedge fund that uses trend following strategies, primarily trading futures, but not actually restricted to commodities, so it's not a particularly accurate name, just industry jargon.
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