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May 8, 2025
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Why work with TPP? Here’s why.
The market has been in turmoil. Funds all over the world have been losing money as the Trump administration unveiled its absurd tariffs. The dust has settled a touch, but the problem hasn’t gone away and we are still poised on the cliff’s edge.
We aren’t politicians, and it’s not our place to say what the democratically elected party of any country should or shouldn’t do, but we, as economists and traders, can tell you that it’s just utter madness.
The 3 days after Trump stood there with his Reciprocal tariffs board were brutal. The market fell faster than anything we’ve seen since COVID. The S&P dropped into bear market territory (20% down from its highs), and US trading volume reached its highest level in 18 years as markets tried to work out what was going on.
Fund managers all over the world were wondering what to do. Do they sell? Do they hold? Is it simply too late?
At TPP, we have an edge; an advantage over any fund manager – we are traders. We don’t just buy stocks for our clients and then sit back and hope that time will do our job for us. Yes, we do believe that over a long enough period, the stock market does trend in an upward trajectory, in fact we use this theory to heighten our own returns.
However, the steepness of that upward curve can make a huge difference to the investor. Our clients don’t just want ‘average’ , they want better than that, and we aim to give it to them.
Extra returns count, no matter how small, and we never forget that. The S&P has returned around 10% for the last 20 years.
If you’d invested £50,000 in the S&P 20 years ago, you would now have around £331,673. This is a great investment and hard to beat, however:
If you’d done the same but with a 15% return, you would now have around £849,253.
Just that 5% extra for 20 years gives you 256% more.
That’s where we come in, we aim for more and we use complex trading instruments to do it, but don’t worry, our traders have over 20 years' experience in the derivatives market, so they know what they’re doing.
So, how does active trading benefit our clients?
Over the last month, stocks hit a level of volatility we haven’t seen since the depths of COVID, and just as we did for clients in 2020, we have actively traded through it and are once again returning to strategy highs.
Yes, it’s been a tough time; we had drawdowns just like everyone else, but if you sit on your hands, you won’t make your clients more money, and as all traders know, the best time to make money is when the world is panicking and volatility is high.
Sit it out, and you might get back to your portfolio’s peak by the end of 2025, maybe, although with the current US administration tearing up the book on low trade barriers, I wouldn’t count on it. In fact, there is always a chance this gets worse before it gets better.
The market has undergone a partial recovery, which has been very welcome, but it is only that, a partial recovery. This is one leg up due to Trump announcing various U-turns in the execution of the plan. BUT, his plan remains the same and tariffs will continue. This could hurt the global economy.
If it does, we have clients covered. We use options to protect the downside, we trade in and out of the market to increase returns and we have some strategies that will even short the market from time-to-time.
It goes without saying that ‘past performance is no guarantee of future returns’ but sometimes it’s all we have to go on.
Here is how our most popular trading strategies are getting on in 2025:
Cambridge Futures our most popular strategy is up 10.9% in 2025. That is after costs. Don’t take our word for it, here is the performance chart.
Our other FTSE strategy is faring even better with a return of 15% having notched up an impressive 25% in 2024.
It’s not just our FTSE focussed traders who are doing well. The two DAX strategies are up over 8% and 17% respectively.
Our traders buy and sell, buy and sell, with one goal, to make our clients money.
The market has been brutal, but our traders have navigated it well, and many of our portfolios are now above where they were before Trump produced his comical board of tariffs.
Expect the worst, prepare for the worst, and we will get through the worst.
If you’re frustrated with the lack of action taken by your wealth manager, or if you simply get told ‘it’s time in the market, not timing the market’, then maybe you need to look elsewhere. The world has moved on. Technology has made it possible for you to literally build your own onlinehedge fund using our professional traders. All you need is £25,000 minimum capital.
Please get in touch if you would like information on how to build your portfolio using our innovative technology. Once we’ve set it up, all you have to do is watch while we do the work.
This material is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument. The views and strategies described may not be suitable for all investors. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only.
Past performance may not be indicative of future results.
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