Note: This page is for reference only. Click here to view the video page, including live transcript Captions were automatically generated: As mentioned, this is an introduction to MSP. MSP stands for Managed Strategy Portfolio. So there’s a couple of different services, the Investor Unity offers, or I should say there’s two primary categories of services that IU offers offer. We’ll talk about those, but this one is, this session, I should say, is focused upon the managed strategy portfolio or more broadly focused upon clients and people, humans that prefer to have the markets or in certain investments in the markets handled for them, so they don’t like to look at charts and analyse risk and consider macro concerns or micro concerns and place their trades and manage their trades and that sort of thing. They want a hands off. Type approach as we term it. So more specifically, I suppose it’s, we’re talking about high performance alternatives for the world’s largest markets. Now performance is something that is published live, and we can I’m happy to go through performance in as much detail as possible, most importantly, and a little bit, broadly speaking, I suppose, these concepts
Tracing their modern origins back to 1710 at the Dojima rice exchange in Osaka, Japan. Futures contracts were originally devised to be used to protect commodity producers against possible future price movements. More recently they have been adapted to financial products such as shares and share indices such as the SPI 200 here in Australia. Both commodity and financial futures are now widely used by short term traders and investors alike.
Key considerations:
- Can be used to trade multiple asset classes such as Gold, Crude oil and Stock market indices
- Futures prices do not directly follow the asset that they are based upon, they are their own market
- Can be used to potentially profit from falling markets
- 24 hour trading opportunities- easy access to global markets from a single account
- Relatively low trading costs, with relatively high contract values and margin requirements (direct futures)
- Can be traded using high leverage- increases risk and reward potential
- Direct Futures contracts expire and are automatically closed-out, CFD Futures are not (as offered by most brokers)
In Australia, the most widely traded futures contact is the SPI 200. This Share-Price-Index contract follows the overall movement of the largest 200 companies on the Australian Stock Exchange (which make up approximately 87% of the entire market’s value).
The attraction of this contract, as with all index-contracts (indices), is that it allows the the potential to benefit from the overall performance of the market (whether it’s rising or falling) rather than having to find the best individual stocks within it. Additionally- most index contracts are highly liquid and trade almost 24 hours per day.
Since the inception of Contracts For Difference, many new & intermediate level traders now prefer to trade Futures via CFDs. Although the trading costs can be slightly higher- they are still extremely cost effective (no brokerage) and the minimum trade sizes are much smaller, which allows for better risk management, especially in smaller accounts.
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