Apogee: When Market Rigging Punished, Watch For Bull Markets To Return

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Mark Melin
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Could equal enforcement of the law regarding market rigging lead to a significant bull market? After knocking the cover off the ball in February and March with 52.62% year-to-date performance, Apogee Gold Fund appears to have been embolden. Fund manager William M. Cabot Jr., in an April  2016 letter to investors reviewed by ValueWalk, speaks his mind about an infuriating topic to professionals in metals market: price fixing by large and politically influential banks. The letter illustrates a subtle change in market structure, a positive trend if one supports fair and open markets. In fact, Cabot thinks gold and silver…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.