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Kimberly Rios, CFA, CMT, Portfolio Manager

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Kimberly Rios joined Catalyst Capital Advisors as a Portfolio Manager in 2014. She is currently a Portfolio Manager of an options-based commodity fund at Catalyst Funds. She carries the Series 3 license, the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Designation, the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, and is a member of the National Futures Association. Ms. Rios has degrees in Economics and Finance from the University of Arizona.

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Phil Flynn and Kimberly Rios Discuss Another Holiday Weekend Oil Selloff!

Catalyst Funds Commodity Portfolio Manager Kimberly Rios and Phil Flynn, a Sr. Energy Analyst with Price Futures Group and a Fox Business news contributor cover a few of Kimberly's favorite topics: oil rig counts, market volatility and historical oil pricing patterns

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Investing in Commodities: Seasonal Factors Make Active Management Necessary

This whitepaper provides trade examples using seasonal charts as guidance for positioning when taking seasonal factors into consideration. Long-only, indexing, and other passive commodity investing strategies may not address seasonal factors, treating investing in commodities as if they were equities, even though they are very di¬fferent.

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Commodity & Infrastructure Insights

Gold Reaches New Highs While Commercial Short Positions Rise

Next, looking at last week’s Commitment of Traders report from the CFTC, it follows the higher gold prices as large speculators increased their positions from 252,000 to 267,000. However, it also shows that commercial traders added to their short positions going from -287,000 to -301,000.

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Commodity & Infrastructure Insights

Gold’s Consolidating…What’s Next?

There is so much speculation into gold’s next move. The metal has been in a two-month trading range on relatively low volume since the March sell off and rebound around the options and futures expiration week, when gold saw physical delivery issues.

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Commodity & Infrastructure Insights

Does Your Oil Tracking Fund Really Track Oil Prices?

Given the recent and unprecedented volatility in crude oil prices, we thought this would be an opportune time to take a deeper dive into how some popular oil and oil-related funds have performed this year.

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Commodity & Infrastructure Insights

How Price May React to Oil’s Record Low Rig Count

Oil is a volatile commodity, and one need look no further than the movements in the first few months of 2020 as proof. The price of crude oil (WTI) started the year above $60, and infamously dipped to below -$37 in April.

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Commodity & Infrastructure Insights

Portfolio Manager Discusses Oil Market Pricing and Volatility

It’s no secret that equity markets have seen their share of market volatility and price declines over the past few weeks, but upheaval in the oil markets have been more severe by comparison.

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Trading Commodity Volatility – A Woman’s Perspective

In this podcast, Kimberly Rios, a Commodity Portfolio Manager at Catalyst Funds recently sat down with Jeff Malec, Managing Director and Partner from RCM Alternatives to give a woman’s perspective on trading volatility.

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Commodity & Infrastructure Insights

Oil Spread Trading – There’s More Than Just 150% Volatility to Consider

This has been a historical week for financial markets in many aspects. For the purposes of this blog, I will focus on the oil markets, which have been devastated by rapid price declines and anemic demand.

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Commodity & Infrastructure Insights

Is the Oil Rally about to Stall?

There has been a lot of news to absorb so far this month: .Tthe OPEC+ meeting is over,; the trade deal news is out; and oil is still edging higher..!

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