The Macro Trader
Hello,
Welcome to The Macro Trader. As the name implies we are a service dedicated to global macro research and trading. We have been publishing a weekly newsletter with frequent intra-week updates since November of 2007 that focuses on several different asset classes using ETF’s.
Right now we focus on US Equities, Foreign Equities, Fixed Income (Treasuries, Investment Grade Corporates, and Junk Bonds), Commodities, and Currencies. Our typical holding period is about two months with the ideal trade lasting forever and some of our trades only lasting a few days. In essence we trade multiple strategies across multiple asset classes.
While ultimately discretionary traders we use a systematic process for idea generation. We use about 100 different models to help us find trades that meet our strict risk to reward criteria. Our models look at just about everything. We look at economic, fundamental, technical, and sentiment indicators as inputs into our models. Here is a good post that describes what we do called macrotrader.com/2007/12/06/our-basic-approach-to/”>”Our Basic Approach to Finding Investment Ideas”.
We try to explain things in an easy to understand manner and are always willing to answer any questions that our readers may have. One of our strengths as compared to most other newsletters is that we focus on risk first and then look at reward. We are striving to build a solid long term track record and in the newsletter report our model portfolios returns. Instead of saying you could have made $5 trillion dollars off of this one trade we think that by showing how an entire portfolio has done it gives a better representation of the potential results. So while far too many newsletters cherry pick individual trades when talking about performance we give a detailed view of what our model portfolio has done.
Hopefully this has given you some insight into what we actually do and what we have to offer. We look forward to serving you and providing well thought out and actionable trading ideas. We offer quarterly and yearly subscriptions and look forward to helping provide you with global macro research. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to e-mail us.
Happy Trading,
The Macro Trader
