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Crude oil broke through the $80 a barrel ceiling repeatedly during the week but kept falling back as hedge funds placed big bets on the Euro’s decline.

Crude oil prices took a dive on Friday after a week of gains from U.S. blizzards were undercut by another move in China to tighten monetary policy.

Rallying stocks were a delight for investors yesterday after better than expected earnings from companies. Bruce Bittles, chief investment strategist at Robert W.

On Monday, the week and the month of February started on stupendous note with markets rallying on rising US manufacturing data. In a report, JPMorgan Asset Management strategists David Shairp and Rekha Sharma wrote: "The current pullback has been welcome and has taken equities from overbought levels relative to bonds to much closer to neutral.

Do hedge funds have an impact on energy trading?

While the answer might seem intuitive, the debate as to whether they actually do has come to resemble the medieval theological dispute about how many angels can dance on the head of the pin.

Because, like angels, many trades in energy futures are invisible, and it is often not possible to pinpoint where they take place.

With the nation on the brink of economic collapse, Wall Street panic at an all time high, and hedge funds and financial institutions disintegrating, New York based Elliott Associates has parked an additional $1 billion into Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media which will finance a large slate of Universal Pictures' films over the next few years.

As a non correlated asset class, films and film finance has outperformed every non correlated asset class in the world if you look at the more than $6 billion dollars poured into motion picture finance deals in the last 3 years, the IRR across the spectrum for both studios and independents are resilient to global economic declines in other industries.

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Dr. Andrew Lo , MIT Professor and founder of Alpha Simplex, was recently on CNBC's Fast Money program discussing hedge fund replication using a combination of exchange traded futures and currency forwards.

Throughout my years as a pro trader and chief market strategist, I have studied the markets, looking for keys, strategies, new findings. As a company, my partners and I have developed some of the best working and profitable proprietary techniques for trading, swing trading and longer term investing.

As I write this article on time frames, I wish to speak a little bit about my experience as a trader. Throughout the years, I have made my fair share of mistakes. Those of you that trade/invest in the markets know it is just part of the game.

Just as the media and regulators continue to discuss the use of alternative investments and the active trading of hedge funds in contributing to the downfall of the economy and the stock market, many private investors are seeing each as a way to help protect themselves from recent market uncertainty (see New York Times article).

The reality of corrections is one of the few certainties of the financial markets, a reality that separates the men from the boys, if you will. If you fixate on your portfolio Market Value during a correction, you will just give yourself a headache, or worse.