And I think the ever growing roles of CTA’s help to exacerbate and manufacture bigger “swings” in financial assets.
How many times, over the years, have we heard that the metals are being sold to “raise cash?”
CTAs use a variety of techniques to generate profits for their clients. These strategies can include trend-following, mean reversion, and discretionary trading. Trend-following CTAs identify and exploit trends in the market, while mean reversion CTAs look for instances where asset prices deviate from their long-term averages and aim to profit from their subsequent reversion.