We construct long-short factor mimicking portfolios that capture the hedging pressure risk premium of commodity futures. We consider single sorts based on the open interests of either hedgers or speculators, as well as double sorts based on both positions. The long-short hedging pressure...

The article tests for the presence of short-term continuation and long-term reversal in commodity futures prices. While contrarian strategies do not work, the article identifies 13 profitable momentum strategies that generate 9.38% average return a year. A closer analysis of the constituents of...

We construct dynamic trading strategies based on the theories of Cootner (1960), Stoll (1979) and Hirshleifer (1990). These strategies are constructed using the aggregate positions of hedgers and speculators. Our active strategies applied to 13 liquid commodity futures outperform buy-and-hold...

The Nelson-Siegel framework is employed to model the term structure of commodity futures prices. Exploiting the information embedded in the level, slope and curvature parameters, we develop novel investment strategies that assume short-term continuation of recent parallel, twist or butterfly...

Producers and consumers of commodities are likely to trade commodity futures with the dual intention of mitigating spot price risk and extracting profits through speculation, a practice known as selectively hedging. We put forward an integrated-signal approach to selective hedging that...

This article demonstrates that momentum, term structure and idiosyncratic volatility signals in commodity futures markets are not overlapping which inspires a novel triple-screen strategy. We show that simultaneously buying contracts with high past performance, high roll-yields and low...

The article studies the conditional correlations between 25 commodity futures and 13 stock and fixed-income indices. Conditional correlations with equity returns fell over time, a sign that commodity futures have become better tools for strategic asset allocation. The correlations between the...