Emil Van Essen - Commodity Strategy

Online, August 18, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Emil Van Essen was recently recognized in Chicago at the Managed Futures Pinnacle Awards receiving the Best Defensive (Diversified) and Greatest Returns (High Volatility - Diversified) awards. Emil Van Essen's futures strategy is spreads. Spreads can benefit the trader by either increasing or decreasing and can be between commodities, contract months, or options. As a commodity strategy spreads can effective in a number of different market conditions. Emil Van Essen is recognized as a premier commodity trading advisor or CTA. CTA'S are commodity trading companies that trade futures accounts for retail and institutional investors.

Investors may have begun to reinvest in the U.S. equity markets but what are they doing to protect themselves against the effects that Europe will have on our markets? The current situation across the Atlantic is a complete mess. Greece, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal are on life support from the EU but in reality they are being uplifted by Germany. At what point will Germany decide they can't afford to bail out anyone else? When will Germany decide they are better off letting them fail and removing them from the EU? Whatever happens here it will continue to create uncertainty in financial markets around the world.

So what should investors do?
Alternative assetsare assets that have not been traditionally considered part of a portfolio and are used to diversify a portfolio. Managed Futures are an alternative asset class that has traditionally showed little to no correlation between stocks and bonds. Emil Van Essen's spread trading program is available through Cedar Asset Management LLC, a Chicago based introducing broker. For more details please log on to this site www.cedarassetmanagementllc.com