Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: UK hedge funds might relocate: hedge fund news, week 49 [more]

  In the week ending 06 Dec, 2013, experts in Europe warned that UK hedge funds might relocate because of the government’s crackdown on partnerships; the Co-operative Bank bondholders voted overwhelmingly to allow hedge funds to take major stakes in the new group; European charities have demand

• HFRI Fund Weighted Composite index posts 11th gain in 13 months, up 1.03% in November (8.31% YTD) [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Hedge funds extended 2013 gains in November, with positive contributions across all strategy areas led by Equity Hedge, as the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index posted its 11th gain in the past 13 months, as reported today by HFR, the established global leader in the ind

• Hedge funds on gain streak for third consecutive month, Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index up 1.37% in November (7.39% YTD) [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Hedge funds delivered their third consecutive month of positive returns as global markets maintained their upward momentum. The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index was up 1.37% during the month, edging past the MSCI World Index which gained 1.27% in the month of November 2013.&l

• Climate change and land depletion driving returns from farms [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Climate change and depletion of agricultural land are the most important factors driving investment returns from farmland, according to new research by Aquila Capital (“Aquila”), one of Europe’s leading independent

Today's Other Voices

• Other Voices: Why fee reduction is the purest form of alpha [more]

  This article as authored by Andrew Beer, CEO of U.S.-based Beachhead Capital Management. You can access the full version by clicking on the link at the bottom. In this note, we examine the relationship between the hedge fund

More Exclusives

• 06. Dec. | Opalesque Radio: No massive bubbles in sight 'except perhaps for real estate in China, government debts, bonds’ [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:As U.S. stock indices and some other asset prices are reaching dizzying heights this year despite low growth and high unemployment, many are worrying about possible bubbles.

• 06. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Cybersecurity, a key risk for financial firms over the next year [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York:Cybersecurity seems to be topping the list of potential risk factors for financial firms heading into the new year. Booz Allen Hamilton, providers of technology, security, and former employer of Edward Snowden, have released their annual cybersecurity trend fore

• 05. Dec. | Opalesque Roundtable: Regulators should focus more on 'non-sophisticated’ hedge funds [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia:Market regulators should focus more on non-sophisticated hedge funds rather than concentrate on so-called sophisticated players, said Paul MacGregor, Managing Director of Product Strategy at FFastFill during the latest

• 05. Dec. | Opalesque TV: As CTAs evolve, specialists focus on a new high tech niche [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York:CTAs have had a rough couple of years. Close watchers of the group will note that this happens every so often based on the uncorrelated nature of those funds. For investors though, it can be difficult to tell that and discern who will be the winners when things

• 04. Dec. | Opalesque TV: SA2’s global fundamental quantitative macro funds use Japan as a model [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:An emerging hedge fund manager and former start trader, who runs global macro funds applying fundamental and quantitative strategies in London, talks about the lessons he learned while at Lehman and Credit Suisse. Equipped with a

• 04. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Kenneth D. Brody, co-founder, Taconic Capital Advisors to retire [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York:Kenneth D. Brody, co-­‐founder of Taconic Capital Advisors, a multi-­‐strategy, event-­‐ driven hedge fund, founded in 1999, will retire effective January 1, 2014, according to a letter to investors sent Tuesday. Taconic manages approximately $8

• 03. Dec. | Opalesque Roundtable: Market participation, risk management and cost of regulations worry hedge fund managers [more]

  Precy Dumlao, Opalesque Asia:Low participation rate in markets, sophisticated risk management and the cost of regulation are the major challenges that worries investors, hedge fund managers who participated in the latest Opa

• 03. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: The Emanagers Total Index gained 1.59% in October, 3.9% YTD [more]

  Emerging manager hedge funds had a positive month in October 2013, according to an estimation based on the data of 169 funds listed in Opalesque Solutions' Emanagers database. The Emanagers Total Index was up 1.59%

• 02. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Global banks and asset managers to launch more Asian hedge funds: hedge fund news, week 48 [more]

  In the week-ending 29 November, 2013, according to Vestment hedge funds saw seven months of consecutive positive performance as at end October as as

• 02. Dec. | Opalesque Roundtable: 40 Act fund space is promising but some funds may not have true liquidity [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:Panelists at the recent Alternative Assets Summit in Las Vegas said that costs to bring a '40 Act to market had dropped significantly and

• 29. Nov. | Opalesque Exclusive: Monte Capital’s long/short equity fund up 12% YTD thanks to active management of options portfolio [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:Monte Capital’s Theta Fund, a long/short equity fund with derivative protection, is up 12.11% YTD after returning 0.57% in October. The fund, which is listed on Opalesque’s

• 28. Nov. | Opalesque Exclusive: Hedge funds see seventh consecutive month of performance gains [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York:October accounted for the seventh consecutive month of performance gains according to the latest data from Citi Prime Finance. According to eVestment, industry assets rose for October 2013 gaining +$59.7bn. Asset growth was attributed mostly from performance gain

• 28. Nov. | Opalesque Roundtable: Investors want alpha to go with uncorrelated volatility [more]

  Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London:The Opalesque 2013 Chicago Roundtable, sponsored by FfastFill, Eurex

• 27. Nov. | Opalesque Roundtable: Chicago is where innovation happens [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:Chicago is different from other financial centres, it was said during the recent Opalesque Chicago Roundtable. For a start, in Chicago, the birthplace of the futures market, tends to

More Other Voices

• 05. Nov. 2013 | Other Voices: Survey illustrates Big Data management challenges, firms appoint 'Chief Data Officers’ [more]

  This article was authored by Alessandro Ferrari, who heads up global marketing outreach for RIMES, which serves the growing

• 29. Oct. 2013 | Other Voices: Roadmap to absolute returns, part 2 [more]

  By: Rene Levesque, Founder, Mountjoy Capital When asked about the behavioral and personality characteristics of the successful traders, Mr. Schwager, author of several books on Market Wizards, answers with the following: "People who are suc

• 28. Oct. 2013 | Other Voices: Roadmap to absolute returns, part 1 [more]

  By: Rene Levesque, Founder, Mountjoy Capital "Past Performance Is No Guarantee Of Future Results" The studies are well documented on the fact that manager selection based on trailing performance metrics is a losing proposi

• 23. Oct. 2013 | Other Voices: No, Bloomberg, the managed futures industry is not a scam [more]

  This piece was contributed by Jeff Malec CAIA, CEO, Founding Partner, Attain Capital Management.

• 12. Sep. 2013 | Other Voices: The curious case of Asian volatility [more]

  This piece was contributed by David Shin, Associate Director, PAAMCO Singapore The volatility of volatility is generally higher in Asian markets than in other developed markets. Also, Asian markets typically have skews

• 05. Sep. 2013 | Other Voices: Warren Buffet - Dump your equities and keep the dividends [more]

  This open letter to Warren Buffet is from Jad Comair, Founder and CIO Melanion Capital, Paris. In finance, a dividend future is an Exchange-traded derivative contract that allows investors to take positions on future dividend payme

• 09. Aug. 2013 | Other Voices: JOBS Act: What if a hedge fund manager is initially enamored of the new rules and starts to advertise, but later changes his mind? [more]

  This article was authored by Jay B. Gould, San Francisco-based lawyer at Pillsbury, a global law firm, and posted on Pillsbury’s

• 25. Jul. 2013 | Other Voices: A discussion of risk, intelligence and trading [more]

  This article was authored by Alistair Evans of Qbasis Invest, a CTA investment firm based in Austria, in which he interviews Dr Dylan Evans on the subject of risk intelligence. (Note: this is an extract of the first part; you can

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CME - S&P 500 INDEX (CASH) Daily

Near Term Trend: Positive
Friday’s Close: 1805.81 (- 1.43)
UPDATE: Same theme for the last five weeks- Move up the trailing protective profit sell stop as bullish price action continues to dictate the overall profile of the Index.
Last week, we also stated, “Keep in mind the bullish cycle of this move could wane toward 1825.00. The upside is limited at this juncture”.
For the week ahead move the pivot up to 1802.00 from last week’s level of 1788.00. Therefore, only sell on a close below 1802.00.
Take note the Index reversed 8 points from the historical high on Friday to close near the session low.