Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Roundtable: More internalization: A new paradigm for large institutional asset owners [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Max Townshend, investment director at Local Pensions Partnership (LPP) believes that the UK will start to see more internalization by asset owners, a trend which is already a growing in Canada an

• Opalesque Exclusive: FTI Consulting launches specialist director support services in Cayman [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: FTI Consulting's restructuring group is expanding its services in the Cayman Islands following approval of a Companies Management Licence by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA). FTI will be able to provide independent board directors that can manag

• Oaktree's Howard Marks issues another cautionary tale [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Oaktree's co-chairman Howard Marks' latest memo is another cautionary one that advoca

• The geekiest (and most important) number nobody is discussing [more]

  Matthias Knab, Opalesque: Russ Koesterich, Head of Asset Allocation for BlackRock's Global Allocation Fund, writes on Harvest Exchange: History since

• French financial authority fines Natixis €35 million over misuse of redemption fees [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: The AMF's Enforcement Committee has issued a warning to Natixis Asset Manag

Today's Other Voices

• Other Voices: ICO hell is here (for U.S. investors) [more]

  Chris Kitze Technology Innovator and Investor ICO's surpassed VC funding for blockchain companies in the first half of 2017. Tezos raised $232m in two weeks and Bancor pocketed $153m in just three hours. New coin listings on exchanges have generated eye-popping returns for early investor

More Exclusives

• 27. Jul. | Opalesque Roundtable: Artificial Intelligence: The fight for talent [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: The growth of artificial intelligence has pushed fund managers to utilize this technology and explore new ways to use it to their advantage, said John Harrison, a partner and Group CFO/COO at Amplitude Capital, a sys

• 27. Jul. | Opalesque Roundtable: Beta-adjusted performance emerges as a new metric for fees [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Fees have been a hot topic in recent years, as hedge fund managers have struggled to put up consistently high returns in a low volatility environment.

• 26. Jul. | Opalesque Roundtable: What to do with the growing power of investment consultants? [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Educate consultants, especially on quant and systematic strategies, say industry insiders. The growing power of investment consultants and their influence over allocations into the hedge fund sector means fund managers must work with these consultants to educate

• 26. Jul. | Opalesque Exclusive: Boothbay banks on nimble, niche emerging managers [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: One New York-based hedge fund is successfully riding the trend towards emerging manager managed accounts by focusing on those managers who take the road less tr

• 26. Jul. | Opalesque Exclusive: Coleman Group to take over management of K1T quant fund [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Coleman Group, a London-based quant alternative investment manager, has partnered with

• 25. Jul. | Opalesque Roundtable: Changing investor preferences: Outflows from bigger and inflows to smaller managers [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: This year saw a small outflow of funds from bigger managers and inflows into smaller hedge fund managers, said Duncan Crawford, head of Hedge Fund Sales team at Societe Generale during the latest

• 25. Jul. | Opalesque Exclusive: Global Return Asset Management ends 1H up +7.04% [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: New York-based value hedge fund Global Return Asset Management has ended the first half of 2017 up +7.04 percent net, according to performance information obtained by Opalesque. The firm's flagship fund is up +59.87 percent since inception in 2013. The r

• 24. Jul. | Opalesque Roundup: Institutions and family offices shift to hedge funds and alternatives despite valuation concerns: hedge fund news, week 30 [more]

  In the week ending 21 July, 2017, the global trend to shift into alternative assets is gathering pace more institutional investors are turning to private equit

• 21. Jul. | Opalesque Exclusive: Modern investor tools (6): Hedge fund investor trends seen through Hedge Connection platform [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Modern Investor Tools is a series on technology providers that assist asset allocators. Founded in 2005,

• 19. Jul. | Opalesque Exclusive: National foundation study shows improved 2016 investment returns [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Data from the recently released 2016 Council on Foundations-Commonfund Study of Investment of Endowments for Private and Community Foundations (CCSF) show that foundations returns have improved slightly. According to the report, private foundations reported an a

• 17. Jul. | Opalesque Exclusive: Come to Bermuda's premier hedge fund event in October [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Just as the wind starts blowing auburn leaves along the streets of New York and London and people start revisiting their winter coats, some hedge funders might like to find solace in Bermuda, where they could have dinner on the beach and go on a mini-cruise.

• 17. Jul. | Opalesque Roundup: Majority of hedge fund investors to "significantly or moderately" shift money to quant funds: hedge fund news, week 29 [more]

  In the week ending 14 July, 2017, in FinTech, a report by Jefferies pointed to a chart from Google Trends as a visualisation how interest in "data science"

• 14. Jul. | Opalesque Exclusive: Green Alpha Advisors goes long on the 'next economy' [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Garvin Jabusch co-founder and CIO of Denver-based Green Alpha Advisors bristles at being lumped in with other sustainability and ESG funds. When we met, he was in New York to speak at a sustainable investing conference about what he calls the "next economy" and

• 11. Jul. | CTA survey results on investment methodology, fees and traded markets [more]

  Matthias Knab, Opalesque: London based J8 Capital Management conducted a global survey to fund out how CTAs work and generate returns. The survey was supported by Opalesque. The 2017 CTA survey by far and large confirmed the findings of the 2014 and 2015 CTA survey (total of 110 respons

More Other Voices

• 27. Jul. 2017 | Other Voices: Activist's investment in Nestle: Upcoming depreciation of major world currencies [more]

  By Alex Gavrish, Etalon Investment Research; author of Story Investing. Alex Gavrish discusses the possible story behind an activist inves

• 22. Jun. 2017 | Other Voices: Are your pricing policies and procedures for less liquid instruments adequate? [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: The unrelated position mismarking incidents that quickly precipitated the closures of both Visium Asset Management and Marinus Capital have been recent focal points for market participants, but regulatory scrutiny of valuation choices for less liquid instruments is

• 21. Jun. 2017 | Other Voices: What is the Capital Inflow From China A-share Index Inclusion? [more]

  By Qi Wang, CFA, CEO at MegaTrust Investment (HK): As expected, MSCI today announced the inclusion of China A-shares in its Emerging Markets Index for the firs

• 24. May. 2017 | Other Voices: The insidious threat of data mining bias [more]

  Guest article from Kris Longmore, Founder and Head of Quantitative Research at Quantify:In the context of systematic trading research, data mining bias refers to the risk of attributing significance to a result that was in fact due to chance. I refer to it as an "insidious threat" becau

• 17. May. 2017 | Other Voices: How to Evaluate a Machine Learning Based Trading System? [more]

  Meta Alpha, LLC - Submitted to Opalesque as Guest Article - Confidential and Proprietary 1. Is it really machine learning, i.e. does it really learn? Many systems depend on traditional statistical techniques such as GARCH and other techniques but are not really machine learning. In othe

• 12. May. 2017 | Other Voices: Aon Hewitt retirement and investment blog: Hedge fund indices as benchmarks [more]

  Executive Summary Where clients are looking to benchmark hedge fund investments against a relevant market, or peer average, we recommend that clients use HFRI Fund Weighted Indices as opposed to indices from other providers or the newer Asset Weighted indices from HFRI. In some situatio

• 26. Apr. 2017 | Other Voices: "Winner-take-all" dynamics and hedge fund investing [more]

  A growing stream of thinking in microeconomics is the concept of "winner-take-all" dynamics. The idea seems simple. A combination of networking economics and classic economies of scale creates situations where there are just a few dominant firms or economic agents who are able to capture significant

• 04. Apr. 2017 | Other Voices: Hedge funds manage risk: Opposing view [more]

  By: Richard H. Baker Even in times of pressure, research shows that investors particularly institutional investors such as pensions, foundations and endowments continue to use hedge funds as tools to help meet their unique financial and risk management needs. This is especially true in the

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iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (EWZ) – Monthly

Near Term Trend: Bullish (nearing resistance)

Friday’s Close: 37.06 (- 0.78%)

UPDATE: Last week, I suggested shorting EWZ near 36.87 with a target of 20 and with stops on a monthly close above 38.10.

EWZ rallied nicely until Friday when crude turned lower. Staying with this bearish call.

Short between current levels and 38.10 with stops above $38.10 on a monthly close. Try holding until prices reach $18.