Merchant Commodity Gains From Oil Slump, Up 13% In Sept

The general equity market has not had the best time in the past few weeks, with the Ebola outbreak, slumping oil prices and fragile state of the Eurozone, there has been little cause to celebrate. However, the weakness has benefited some quite handsomely.

Merchant Commodity Fund Up 33% YTD

September proved to be a good month for commodity traders who chose to bet against energy prices. Leading the way once again is Merchant Commodity Fund, which bagged a whopping gain of 13.8% in the last month alone, pushing up its total return for the year to over 30%. Merchant's shorts in oil seem to have paid off, as crude oil has...