Comments on: What is Commodity Trading Advisor? http://www.acommoditytradingworld.com/commodity-trading/what-is-commodity-trading-advisor The commodity trading blog Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:27:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: NC http://www.acommoditytradingworld.com/commodity-trading/what-is-commodity-trading-advisor/comment-page-1#comment-95 NC Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:27:59 +0000 http://www.acommoditytradingworld.com/commodity-trading/what-is-commodity-trading-advisor#comment-95 The business of a CTA has nothing to do with teaching. CTAs manage their clients' money by using it to speculate in the futures markets. Each client has their own account, and the CTA may devise a personalized trading strategy for each client. The alternative is called a Commodity Pool Operator (CPO). A CPO pools money from many clients into a single account (much like a mutual fund), so all clients within the same pool are essentially invested into the same strategy; no personalization is possible.<br><b>References : </b><br> The business of a CTA has nothing to do with teaching. CTAs manage their clients’ money by using it to speculate in the futures markets. Each client has their own account, and the CTA may devise a personalized trading strategy for each client.

The alternative is called a Commodity Pool Operator (CPO). A CPO pools money from many clients into a single account (much like a mutual fund), so all clients within the same pool are essentially invested into the same strategy; no personalization is possible.
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