Our weekly newsletter is out, and no, this isn’t the start to a trite “inside baseball” financial joke. Don’t get us wrong – we love a laugh – but bad investing habits are no laughing matter. We’ve found that some investors become their own worst enemy, as reliance on familiar investing tropes mutates into a tunnel vision that handicaps their portfolio. No, this is no joke. This has to do with different types of investors and how they become interested in different managed futures programs.

What kind of investor are you?  Do you chase returns? Look for bargains?  Do you buy the hype of a brand new manager?  Or stick with the “brand names” of the industry? Are you a sucker for low correlations?

It’s not that these metrics are unimportant. The problem comes when one metric is given all the power, and that’s the kind of investing we discourage. However, as the saying goes, talk is cheap, so we decided to put our money where our mouth was, and put some numbers to these different types of investors to show just how well – or poorly – they do relative to the average CTA. Click through to see what we found and why, sometimes, the results surprised even us.