Category Archives: Metal Pairs

The Hunt brothers – II

By Orpheus | Published: 28 July, 2010
The historical case of silver Thursday suggests cornering of assets is a cyclical event with probable consequences. Cornering markets may have come off age, but even today traders dare to take large bets. How safe is it? What do historical cases suggest? Are there any signatures linked with such trades? What does numeric ranking of [...]
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The cross asset myth

By Orpheus | Published: 15 July, 2010
Trading Long Zinc, Short Coffee or say Long Industrial Metals index and Short Carbon Emissions index could evoke a shock among the pair trading community, leave aside the simple investor. How can you mix coffee with zinc? “These are pairs, they are not for me, I am a single stock (asset) absolute performance go getter”. [...]
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Introducing Alpha global pair portfolio tracker

By Orpheus | Published: 29 June, 2010
The Alpha global portfolio tracker will be posted in the member’s area on a daily basis. The portfolio covers Agro, Forex, Metals and Energy pairs. For more information on Alpha global pair portfolio tracker mail us at support@orpheus.asia ALPHA is a pair trading, long only – short only strategy and Numeric Ranking product based on [...]
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The gold short

By Orpheus | Published: 23 June, 2010
Historical highs are very tempting buy points. Can this best time for Gold bulls be the worst entry point? If you ask market players to compare physical gold and simple arithmetical relative performance, what do you think investors would choose? Yes definitely gold. When it comes to gold, we can short all sanity and go [...]
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Short Nickel, Long AIGP up 56% in 52 days

By Orpheus | Published: 7 June, 2010
We suggested shorting Nickel against AIGP (Precious Metals) on 19 Apr. The pair is up 56% in 52 days. We illustrated the silver outperformance on 22 Feb. Barring long silver-Short AIGP, which gave away all the 10% gains, the other two pairs viz. long silver-short copper, long silver- short platinum delivered. Now silver has reached [...]
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Is it time to close silver pairs?

By Orpheus | Published: 15 May, 2010
This is what we said on 19 Apr. “Shorting Nickel when Business Week publishes a Nickel Deficit story is again being contrarian. But there has to be something with performance cycles which spots extreme sentiment and potential reversal. The tool based on time fractals suggest that Nickel should underperform Gold and Short Nickel even if [...]
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Anticipated short copper up 13% against silver

By Orpheus | Published: 4 May, 2010
On 22 Feb we initiated three pairs, long Silver-short copper, long silver-short Precious metals (AIGP), long silver – short Platinum. All the pairs are positive and running. Long silver – short copper is up 13% in 71 days. How can silver outperform copper? And how can the performance be indentified? On 6 Apr we carried [...]
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Will short Nickel work?

By Orpheus | Published: 16 April, 2010
Shorting Nickel when Business Week publishes a Nickel Deficit story is again being contrarian. But there has to be something with performance cycles which spots extreme sentiment and potential reversal. The tool based on time fractals suggest that Nickel should underperform Gold and Short Nickel even if not on an absolute basis, should work against [...]
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Why should copper underperform?

By Orpheus | Published: 6 April, 2010
Can you give me a few reasons for the question above? One would say contrarianism can be genetic. So when copper is all over in the news, it’s easy to conjure up short copper rabbits. This is not true. Research is not about being a contrarian, or should I say about being a contrarian only. [...]
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Alpha.Metals – long silver, short gold up 9%, running

By Orpheus | Published: 30 March, 2010
We talked about the Silver outperformance first time on 22 Feb. The silver pairs are still running against Copper, Platinum, AIGP (precious metals index) with marginal gains. However what is interesting to point out is that long silver, short gold is already up 9% (annualized 93%) since then. If this might look as a coincidence, [...]
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