Professionally Managed Commodity Option Portfolios
Who is Alternative Options?
Alternative Options (AOCTA) is a specialized trading firm that offers professionally managed commodity option portfolios for high-net-worth individuals, institutions, and family offices. Alternative Options is focused exclusively on commodity futures and options markets, including sectors such as metals, grains, energies, and softs. Commodity Markets may provide diversification from stocks, bonds, and real estate. This is a speculative investment intended only for risk capital. Alternative Options, LLC is registered with the CFTC as a Commodity Trading Advisor and a member of the NFA.
Authority on Commodity Markets
Our founder, James Cordier, has been a respected voice within the industry for more than 30 years, has authored multiple books on commodity trading, and been featured countless times in national media as a leading authority on commodities. Alternative Options has a professional team which combines decades of experience in these markets, as well as advisors who provide unique insights on particular subject matters.
Fundamental Approach
Commodities such as gold, silver, crude oil, natural gas, coffee, cotton, cocoa, sugar, cattle, corn, wheat, and soybeans are tangible, and their prices are based on real world supply and demand. Our professional team focuses on the underlying fundamentals that drive these markets, and has cultivated an understanding in this field. This enables us to confidently forecast markets months in advance.
True Diversification
AOCTA was formed to provide an alternative to the mainstream investment categories where investors store most of their wealth. With a longer term focus, and strategic utilization of options, our portfolios are not closely correlated with stock market or real estate values. For this reason, when other asset classes experience a downturn, a well-managed commodity option account can still thrive. That is true diversification.
What is proprietary about Alternative Options?
What makes AOCTA unique is our fundamental approach to option trading. In an industry full of quants that are tracking every penny to the millionth decimal place, trying to make a fraction of a penny in a fraction of a second, Alternative Options takes the long view. We conduct extensive research, fundamental and technical analysis, and apply first principles to formulate long-term market forecasts. These forecasts are not necessarily projections of what the market will do, but more often what it will not do. Our understanding of physical commodities is put to use through exchange-traded derivatives. We take a largely fundamental approach to trading options.
James Cordier, Founder
