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Formal definition of a managed futures account from Investipedia

A Managed Futures Account (MFA) is a form of alternative investments, similar to a mutual fund, that takes long and short positions in a futures contracts, government securities, and or options on futures contracts.

Managed futures are operated by licensed Commodity Trading Advisors, or CTAs, who are regulated in the United States by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the National Futures Association, or NFA. Some are compensated on a performance fee basis, usually 15% to 30% of profits. Other CTAs are compensated by charging a per trade cost whenever the account or fund trades. Most CTAs also charge a maintenance fee per year, usually between 1% to 3% of the account size.

Managed futures accounts include, but are not limited too, commodity pools and commodity funds.

MFAs (managed futures accounts) are generally managed on the basis of technical analysis, and involve going long or short in futures contracts in areas such as metals, grains, equity indexes and commodities of all kinds. Currency futures are also commonly traded.

Retire Platinum’s definition of Managed account

The term “managed futures” refers to a 30-year-old industry made up of professional money managers who are known as “commodity trading advisors” (CTA’S). CTA’S are required to register with the U.S. government’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) before they can offer themselves to the public as money managers. CTA’S are also required to go through an FBI deep background check, and provide rigorous disclosure documents (and independent audits of financial statements every year), which are reviewed by the National Futures Association (NFA), a self-regulatory watchdog organization.

CTA’S generally manage their clients’ assets using proprietary trading system, or a discretionary method, that may involve going long or short in futures contracts in areas such as metals (gold, silver), grains (soybeans, corn, wheat), equity indexes (S&P futures, Dow futures, Nasdaq 100 futures), soft commodities (cotton, cocoa, coffee, sugar) as well as foreign currency and U.S. government bond futures. In the past several years, money invested in managed futures has more than doubled and is estimated to continue to grow in the coming years, especially if hedge fund returns start flattening at a more alarming rate than they are currently and stocks continue to underperform.

Why a managed Account?

You may have no chance of having any sort of stability without a money managed account. Many view money managed accounts as an afterthought that gets too little attention. Thoughtful analysis needs to be done to trade your own account. Some traders are unable to sufficiently learn or trade daily due to a conflicting full time job or other obligation. Many investors like to supplement their existing portfolio without having to learn a completely new market.

A managed account is an established account funded by the investor, and traded by a CTA professional.

How many dollars can I afford to risk in a trade?? Does that fit me both psychologically and financially?? If you can’t answer those questions then a managed account may be just the right answer to your future.

In summary, a managed account is two fold. First, it is traded by an experienced trading professional, allowing the professional the opportunity to grow the investor’s account in up or down markets. Secondly, the managed account can be an excellent way to provide a steady rate of growth over a longer period of time without the hassles and emotional swings of trading.

Two people with $20,000 trading accounts will answer these and other questions differently because every trader has there own unique situation.

Why Retire Platinum?

Statistically speaking, there are currently about 2 million managed accounts, and we at Retire Platinum forecast for that to rise to about 10 million accounts over the next few years.

Some of the nation’s largest retirement plan administrators, such as Great-West Retirement Services and Fidelity Investments, are seeing double-digit spikes in withdrawals and increases in loan requests, a sharp departure from levels that traditionally varied little in years past.

Consumers who tap their retirement accounts can take a loan from their 401K accounts or other retirement accounts worth up to 50% of the amount invested. There are no tax consequences for a loan in good standing. But, if a borrower defaults, the loan is considered a withdrawal and subject to the same tax penalties.

We at Retire Platinum can show how such a loan can be repaid without coming out of pocket and the possibilities of producing a higher yield than the 401K or other retired investment opportunity you have borrowed from.

In making the most of their retirement savings, most people benefit from investing at least a portion of their portfolios in managed commodities and futures accounts. Managing a stock or bond portfolio, however, requires more knowledge and time than most people have. Many investors may like the approach of using sentiment to invest a portion of their assets, however, they cannot find the time to follow many of the moves in their personal portfolios.

Fortunately, there are ways to put your retirement money in the hands of professionals, allowing them to make day-to-day decisions about which commodity or future to buy and which to sell—and when.

We at Retire Platinum have taken the guess work out of the equation. We have spent hundreds of hours researching and interviewing, looking for the “Best of the Best” CTA’s to provide the sometimes ever elusive reasonable rate of return. That steady growth that we all are trying to achieve.

We back up our statements through our assurance, that the Principals of Retire Platinum are invested in these programs as well.

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