Quadriga Superfund - Managed Futures

[trendlover]

Quote from Surdo:

I bought it in 3 traunches and sold it in 2!
Why are you surprised?

surdo

Not surprised Surdo, just interested in your strategy of averaging out.

 

[tommy_b]

Quote from Bob111:

what about expenses? are they included in this number?

Figures are net expenses, ie. already accounted for. Here's the historical NAVs. I own the B shares, click the link for Superfund B:

http://www.superfund.com/HP07/Start.aspx?country=us&lg=en&Disclaimer=Show

 

[tommy_b]

Quote from trendlover:

You are taking profits when it hits its trend. You are realizing your gain and redeeming. You say you want to buy back into it again. So, you take some gain and keep it, then you buy again into the fund with money left over after taking some profit. What is intersting is that you buy back into the fund when the fund is at a low. This is opposite of how a trend trading system works. So you buy into the trend trading fund when it is low, but the trend trading system itself does not buy low and sell high, but catches a trend in the upswing and stays till it reverses.

That's correct. Superfund trades using trend following. But I bought and sold by anticipating trend reversals. Ie. I bought when I felt the funds losing trend would end, and sold when I thought their winning trend may be in jeopardy. Although, keep in mind I still have money in the fund. I just took some profit and will add back when I feel they are lagging behind again.

 

[tommy_b]

Quote from Cutten:

So since Jan 1st 2007 it has had an overall return of 18.4%?

That's about right, up about 20% from Jan 1st 2007 till this week.

Superfund B Shares NAV:
31Dec06 = 1821.99
Current (second week of May08) = 2186

http://www.superfund.com/HP07/Start.aspx?country=us&lg=en&Disclaimer=Show

 

[trendlover]

Quote from tommy_b:

That's correct. Superfund trades using trend following. But I bought and sold using trend reversals. Ie. I bought when I felt the funds losing trend would end, and sold when I thought their winning trend may be in jeopardy. Although, keep in mind I still have money in the fund. I just took some profit and will redeploy when I feel they are lagging behind again.

Thank you for feedback. Very helpful.

 

[Maverick74]

Up 33% net of fees this year. New all time high. I thought this fund was suppose to implode. Where are all the nay sayers now? Hmm, guess not...

 

[trendlover]

Quote from Maverick74:

Up 33% net of fees this year. New all time high. I thought this fund was suppose to implode. Where are all the nay sayers now? Hmm, guess not...

 

[Surdo]

B Shares

NAV 2,640 + 48.76% YTD

We all should have listened to Mav!

surdo

 

[jsmith]

I've invested in Superfund Series B before for a year and took a gain.

The only concern I see is the 5 year period from 2003 to end of 2007 where anyone would've got 0% return. The bright side is a lot of trend funds have had huge drawdowns during that same period.

A good trend fund is a great way to diversify a portfolio. I got reamed hard investing in a hedge fund which lost over 70% before.

 

[Maverick74]

Quote from Surdo:

B Shares

NAV 2,640 + 48.76% YTD

We all should have listened to Mav!

surdo

Oh sure, now the kudos comes. LOL. BTW, if you think their Class B shares are doing well, their Gold fund is up 61% YTD.

The sad thing is, at some point, the commodities bubble will burst and they will become trendless once again. And when they do, Superfund will produce flat returns, maybe for years. And all the hooligans will come out of the woodwork and say this fund sucks.

Let's just agree to this...when these futures markets are trending, Superfund is a pretty good place to be. When they are not, there are better places for your money. Obviously trend funds struggle in trendless markets. At least they are knocking it out of the park during the good trends. There are a lot of mom and pop investors that would love to be up 48% now YTD. Most mutual funds have gotten killed.