The SocGen CTA Index has returned 15.1% over the seven months since the end of October last year. RPM’s Evolving CTA Fund and Galaxy Fund (both in USD) were up 17.1% and 29.8% respectively, during the same period. This kind of performance has not been seen since late 2014. What has changed? The short answer: Markets have changed. Commodity markets have changed the most. And there are reasons to believe we have entered a new market regime.
In this paper we'll discuss the fundamental drivers of recent market moves and argue that we might have entered a new, more CTA friendly, market regime.