| Ever since Winthorpe and Billy Ray Valentine bankrupted the millionaire Duke Brothers with one day of trading in orange juice futures in the movie, “Trading Places,” I have held the same fear of commodities as most regular investors.
It’s too volatile and will break you in a heartbeat. Despite Mortimer and Randolph’s experience, one only needs to look at standard deviation, the common measure of volatility, relative to equities to see this isn’t the case..............................................Full Article: Source
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