Commodity Trading Advisors

TRADING STRATEGY
QIM employs numerous quantitative trading models that utilize pattern recognition to predict short and medium-term price movements. Trading strategies and models may be revised from time to time as a result of ongoing research and development that seeks to devise new strategies and systems as well as to improve current methods. The enduring success of any trading program relies heavily on the risk management used in implementing the strategy. QIM applies highly sophisticated risk management procedures that take into account the price, size, volatility, liquidity, and inter-relationships of the contracts traded. The execution of QIM’s trading strategy is systematic. All facets of the predictive models, risk management, and trade allocation are fully automated. However, discretion plays a role in the evolution of the trading system over time as QIM does seek improvements to the trading strategy. The trading is discretionary in that final decisions are made, and systems occasionally overridden, based on the full set of information that has been compiled. That being said, the trading system is overridden very rarely and only in extraordinary circumstances.

TRADING STYLE: Systematic / diversified / short term to medium term