November saw a significant increase globally in equity market with many indexes reaching all time new highs. Much of the globe appears to be factoring in the widespread distribution of the COVID vaccine. Bonds have been for the most part unaffected and are not the balance to the equites markets as has been considered the historical norm. Agriculture and commodities in general have continued to show life particularly in the grains.

Another common trend has been short USD. The IASG indexes showed strength across the board with Trend Following +3.37% leading the way followed by Stock Index Traders 2.64%.

CTA Spotlight: Adalpha Asset Management
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Established Track Record > 5 Years

CTA/Program Assets Nov-20 YTD 2020 Style/Sector Adalpha Asset Management
Diversified Short-Term Program $29,9M 3.06 3.64 Short Term
Diversified Revolution Capital Management
Alpha Program $373M 1.44 19.87 Short Term
Diversified Quantica Capital AG
Managed Futures $682M 4.80 -1.32 Systematic –
Long Term Trend Fort LP
Global Contrarian $2,816M 1.63 -2.66 Systematic –
Mean Reversion QTS Capital Management
Tail Reaper $50M -3.53 42.98 Intraday Indices S&P 500 Index 10.75 12.10

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS.

Emerging Track Record < 5 Years

CTA/Program Min Acct Nov-20 YTD 2020 Style/Sector Cayler Capital
Systematic Energy Diversified $250k 0.20 23.77 Energy Sigma Advanced Capital
Management
Global Advanced Futures
and Spread Program (QEP) $400k 0.46 0.16 Commodity
Spread Deep Field
Vol Arb $1M -1.22 10.14 Intraday
Indices Breakout Funds $1M -0.87 19.74 Discretionary –
Global Macro Ravinia Investment Management
Algorithmic Multi-Strategy $100k -7.69 32.71 Short Term
Vol/Index S&P 500 Index 10.75 12.10

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS.

Top Programs Last Month

Managers with assets greater than $10M

CTA/Program Nov CAROR WDD Eclipse Capital Management
Global Monetary 15.35 7.27 -34.71 SEB Asset Management
SEB Asset Selection Opportunistic Fund C (EUR) 12.27 1.92 -34.86 Vivienne Investissement
MACH 3 12.24 15.93 -29.61 Ramsey Quantitative Systems Inc
RQSI Systematic Global Macro Fund 10.57 8.09 -17.90 Chesapeake Capital
Diversified Plus (HV) 9.65 7.53 -48.26

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PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS.

Top Programs Last 12 Months

Managers with assets greater than $10M

CTA/Program 1yr Sharpe WDD Statar Capital LLC
Natural Gas Strategy 56.94 2.60 -2.82 AG Capital Investments, LLC
Discretionary Global Macro Program 48.97 0.84 -25.27 Opus Futures LLC
Advance Ag Futures Trading Program 43.84 0.38 -50.66 SinoPac Asset Management
Multi Strategy Quant Fund 39.63 0.74 -14.68 QTS Capital Management
Tail Reaper 39.50 0.53 -19.73

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PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS.

Top Programs Last 36 Months

Managers with assets greater than $10M

CTA/Program 3yr Sharpe WDD Leibniz Group
SWARM 97.75 1.14 -5.79 SinoPac Asset Management
Multi Strategy Quant Fund 92.67 0.74 -14.68 AG Capital Investments, LLC
Discretionary Global Macro Program 71.59 0.84 -25.27 Claughton Capital
ARP Institutional Program 58.08 0.40 -25.54 Blue Bar Futures Trading Management LLC
Blue Bar Prime Ag Program 53.30 1.12 -42.26

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PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS.

IASG Indexes

CTA/Program Index Nov YTD 1yr Trend Following Strategy Index 3.37 6.80 7.52 Stock Index Trader Index 2.64 6.65 7.71 Agricultural Trader Index 1.94 7.49 8.31 Systematic Trader Index 1.86 5.00 5.58 IASG CTA Index 1.64 5.11 5.71

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PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS.

Return Summary

Active CTAs/Programs As of December 15, 2020 377 Through November ’20 258 (68%) Last 60 Days 367 (97%) November 2020 ROR Managers with (+) 164 Managers with (-) 91 Average (+) 4.61% Average (-) -3.13% Highest 25.64% Average 1.83% Lowest -20.11

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* Stats as of 12/12/2020 3PM CST