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Return Stacked® Bonds & Managed Futures ETF

Flirting with Models

CHAPTER

How to Position a Managed Futures Fund

Futures work is that we need to post a small amount of collateral to get what ends up being a fairly large exposure to the underlying market. Managed futures funds trade a wide variety of different markets those markets often have very different risk profiles. The two-year treasury bond future has a much lower risk profile or volatility profile than say natural gas or crude oil but we want when one market is trending and another market is trending each of those markets to have approximately the same risk budget in the portfolio.

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