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The daily bar chart for the Continuous Commodity Index (CCI) is still in solid price uptrend and just recently hit a fresh 30-plus year high. The CCI is a basket of major raw commodity futures prices rolled into one composite price index. The CCI is also an excellent barometer of the general price trend of the raw commodity market sector. However, recent price action in the CCI has also produced a potentially bearish rising wedge pattern on the daily bar chart. While the CCI is still in an overall bullish technical posture, as both the longer-term and shorter-term trends are decidedly up, the index is also due for a significant downside "correction" in the uptrend soon.

Hedge Funds Return +3.27% in September 2007 and +9.40% Year-to-Date

Early estimates show the HFN Hedge Fund Aggregate Average, an equal weighted average of all single manager hedge funds and CTA/managed futures products in the HedgeFund.net database, was +3.27% in September 2007. The increase was the largest in over four years, and the second largest month for hedge funds in eight years. The HedgeFund.net database consists of over 7,700 current hedge fund, fund of funds, and CTA products.

Record-high crude oil and wheat futures prices, gold futures prices nearing historic highs and a sharply lower value of the U.S. dollar versus the other major currencies are a bullish cocktail that has pushed the Continuous Commodity Index to a 30-plus year high just this week. The CCI is a basket of major raw commodity futures prices rolled into one composite index price. It's an excellent barometer of the overall trend of the raw commodity sector. Indeed, commodity market bulls are again enjoying successes after hitting a serious "speed bump" in August, when the CCI made a dramatic downside "correction" to throw a serious scare into the commodity bulls. However, the strong rebound in the CCI and the steep uptrend now in place on the daily bar chart have the raw commodity market bulls again flexing their muscles.

DALLAS, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Hedge fund investors' tendency to focus on long-term performance strengthens hedge fund stability, according to the August issue of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' Economic Letter. In "Hedge Fund Investors More Rational Than Rash," Assistant Vice President Jeffery W. Gunther and Harvard University student Anna Zhang examine a decade's worth of data on hedge fund performance and money flows.

Alpha Magazine Ranks the World's Biggest Hedge Funds

PMorgan receives top honors in Alpha's 2007 Hedge Fund 100 ranking of the world's heftiest hedge funds.

New York, NY (PRWEB) May 25, 2007 -- With a combined $1 trillion in assets under management -- a 39 percent increase over last year's total -- the firms in Alpha's 2007 Hedge Fund 100 ranking of the world's biggest hedge funds have made it clear they're primed for growth. Three firms broke the $30 billion barrier, led by top-ranked JP Morgan Asset Management, which had $33 billion in hedge fund assets as of December 31, 2006. Goldman Sachs Asset Management, last year's top-ranked firm, slipped to No. 2 this year despite having increased its total assets by more than $10 billion to $32.5 billion. Bridgewater Associates, No. 3 with $30.2 billion, likewise dropped a notch despite seeing its assets swell by nearly $10 billion.

ETF Securities recently announced the formation of an ETF that would purchase physical platinum on the open markets and store it for investors in hopes of positive investment returns. The fund would trade on the London stock exchanges and comes three days after a similar announcement by the Zurich Cantonal Bank that claims to be listing a similar ETF on the Swiss exchange starting May 10th.

NEW YORK, April 18, 2007 – Victoria Bay Asset Management, LLC and the American Stock Exchange® (Amex®) announced today the launch of the United States Natural Gas Fund, LP (UNG), an exchange traded security based on natural gas, which will list on the Amex under the ticker “UNG.”

Should Investors Be Worried?

When the Lilliputians came upon the sleeping Gulliver, they didn't know if he was friendly or hostile, but he was so big it seemed prudent to tie him down. Should the 9,000 hedge funds -- the secretive investment pools controlling $1.4 trillion in assets -- be treated the same way?