Russell Rhoads, CFA is a registered CTA in Chicago. He has been actively trading a proprietary strategy for several years and started trading it on a daily basis in the beginning of 2007. He has been a registered CTA since 2008.

His primary business is to provide clients with capital appreciation through short term systematic trading of financial futures contracts. Although the risk of loss always exists in futures trading, the manager runs a program that utilizes hard stop loss levels and a portfolio approach to diversify daily exposure.

Program Description
The trading program takes short term positions in a variety of financial futures markets. Currently these markets are all US based, but expansion to foreign markets is expected in the future. Markets traded include futures on the Australian Dollar, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Euro Currency, Japanese Yen, 10 Year and 30 Year Treasuries, Dow, S&P 500, and Russell 2000.

The trading methodology is based on string rules based trading based on technical analysis. All positions have exit stop and target levels. The overall system is made up of a variety of methodologies that interrelate in a risk reducing portfolio context.