Investors and traders want:  

• Superior profit potential in any market or economic environment.

• The flexibility to diversify into multiple non correlated global markets. 

• Security…risk exposure they can tolerate, in a secure regulated environment. 

• Liquidity… to have immediate access to their money whenever, for whatever reason. 

• To have their money working for them, without having to become an expert in all markets: it takes 10,000 hours of dedication and training to become an expert in any profession, including trading and investing successfully. 

• Help in monitoring their trading accounts and investments while they work, sleep, travel and live their busy life.

Quality automated trading systems, just like successful Managed Futures programs, can provide these benefits… Whether you are a hands off investor, or a “do-it-yourself” hands on trader, or a combination of both, we at CBI have access to a variety of quality commodity futures and Forex trading systems that may have the proper balance of risk and profit expectation you are looking for.

Advantages for the “hands-off” investor:

For the investor, commodity futures systems provide similar advantages and benefits as Managed Futures programs. Automated trading systems can be used as alternative investment programs for the purpose of diversifying your investment portfolio. In fact, many CTAs are professional traders that after years of research, combined with much trial and error have developed successful trading systems. Instead of becoming CTAs, system developers choose to sell or lease their systems in order not to assume the full time responsibility of managing investors’ money.  This choice could result in substantial savings for you by eliminating management and incentive fees.

As a “hands off” investor, you would allocate a percentage of your investment capital to a single chosen trading system, or to a multiple-system portfolio for additional diversification. You would then give us at CBI limited power of attorney to monitor signals and execute trades generated by your chosen system. For further information on how our automated system execution program works contact us.

Advantages for the “hands-on” trader and investor:

If you are a “hands on” person that has the time and desire to trade, the discipline to act flawlessly on every signal, and if you are equipped with the right computer, the right software, and a reliable data-feed,  you may choose to take on the responsibility to execute and monitor the trades generated by your trading system.

Even if you already are an experienced, successful trader using your own personal trading strategy, you could benefit from the experience of another professional trader by diversifying your trading portfolio with one, or multiple, systems that trade other markets and strategies that are not correlated to those you are trading.  This could enhance your profit potential and reduce your risk.

In addition, your various trading accounts using different strategies and systems could be linked for margin purposes, so that when necessary one account could “borrow” automatically the available capital from the other.

Another advantage to using this approach at CBI is that when you are busy working or traveling and unable to trade, you could delegate the execution and monitoring of your system’s trades to us while you are away.

What trading systems are and do:

Developing and using trading systems can help traders attain consistent returns while limiting risk. In an ideal situation, traders should feel like robots, executing trades systematically and without emotion.

Developed by professional traders with years of experience in trading and software programing, trading systems are simply sets of rules that traders use to determine their entries and exits from a position.  Converting a trading system’s rules into code that your computer can understand creates automated trading systems. Your computer then runs those rules through the trading software, which looks for trades that adhere to the system’s rules. Finally, the trades are automatically placed by you, or by us, your brokers.

Good trading systems are complete, back tested strategies designed to avoid large losing trades while taking advantage of big profitable trades. The consistency and discipline that is built into a system will take the guesswork out of your trading by answering critical trading questions such as: 

• How do I know what market to trade?
• How many contracts should I trade?
• When should I enter a trade?
• When should I exit a profitable trade?
• When should I exit a losing trade?

We work with trading systems that have hypothetical track records as well as real time track records.  Some systems can be bought, others can be leased, or both.  For more information and help on evaluating or choosing a trading system,  contact us.