Riding the momentum waves
Flashback pre 2009 – I was then a commodities hedge fund manager trading a suite of commodity futures and options products. With several screens hanging above my desk, all that could be deciphered by the untrained outsider were red and green prices that dominated the screens. And during turbulent volatile markets these figures would flash rapidly every split second turning red as prices tumbled or green as they soared higher. There were often large swings and if you looked aw