Episode Details

Benjamin Hoff – Commodity Futures Surfaces and the Cash-and-Carry Glue (S7E17)
6/30/2025
Flirting with Models

Key Insights

Bullish:

  • 🟢 $GOLD - Gold is seen as a unique asset for hedging against policy uncertainty, financial system risks, and geopolitical instability in systematic macro trading.
    • What other commodity, what other market really gives you sensitivity to policy uncertainty, to weaponization of financial systems, to systemic counterparty risk, to geopolitical instability? That is what's unique to gold.” - Benjamin (1:02:08)
  • 🟢 $COMMODITYCARRY - 🔒
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  • 🟢 $ENERGYLIQUIDS - 🔒
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Bearish:

  • 🔻 $COMMODITYINDEX - 🔒
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