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Commodity Hedge Funds: The Most Lucrative “Hidden Gem” in Finance?

Brian DeChesare

Regional market dynamics are important here, as are your relationships with the buyers, sellers, and freighters. You focus on fundamental analysis , such as supply and demand curves, and you usually specialize in one commodity. The downside is that it takes a long time to get your own book, which creates a lot of market/cyclical risk.

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

Along the way, more people than I ever imagined have found my data of use, and while I still have no desire to be a data service, I have an obligation to be transparent about my data analysis processes.

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AI's Winners, Losers and Wannabes: An NVIDIA Valuation, with the AI Boost!

Musings on Markets

The first is that my portfolio has held up well this year, in a market that has been top-heavy and tech-driven, and one big reason is that it contains both NVIDIA and Microsoft, two companies that have benefited from the AI story. Love-Hate Relationship with Markets! I will start this post with a couple of confessions.