Pere Trading Group’s primary objective is the capital appreciation of its client’s assets through speculation in commodity futures contracts. No assurance can be given that this objective will be met, and an investment in an account to be traded by Pere Trading Group should only be considered by investors that can assume the significant risk of commodity futures trading, including losses in excess of their initial investment. Pere Trading Group will attempt to meet the objective of capital appreciation by making trading decisions based upon proprietary methods.

 

Pere Trading Group has developed a trading model that analyzes intra-day E-mini S&P 500 futures price changes in conjunction with daily price changes over a recent span of days to compute daily trading signals. From this analysis, the Pere Trading Group model calculates a desired position in the E-mini S&P 500 futures contract and trades this market accordingly. The model is short term in nature. The average trade duration lasts approximately four days. The system is always in the market (either long or short) therefore each trade executed is a reversal of position from long to short or short to long. Pere trading has developed a fully automated trading system which determines, at multiple times during the trading day, the price at which to execute a trade along with how many contracts to trade for each account. There can be no assurance that Pere Trading Group’s approach to trading will yield the same results as it has in the past.

 

David Pere, born in 1963, is the sole Principal and President of Pere Trading Group. David registered with the NFA as an Associated Person (AP) on August 17, 2006 and as a Principal of Pere Trading Group on August 16, 2006. David is responsible for all aspects of the firm’s operation, which include system development, research, trading, operations and management. David received a BS from Creighton University in 1985 and has over 20 years of experience trading futures markets and developing trading systems. From July 1988 to January 2005 David worked for Dunn Capital Management, Inc. (DUNN). In September 1988 he registered as an AP and in September 1991 he registered as a Principal of DUNN. DUNN is a Commodity Trading Advisor and Commodity Pool Operator who has managed client funds since 1974 and is highly regarded as a pioneer in the field. David joined DUNN as Assistant Office Manager in July 1988 and was promoted to Office Manager in October 1990, to Research Associate in April 1994, to Vice President, Research and Operations in August 1997 and to Senior Vice President in 1998. While at DUNN, David became a computer programmer and used these skills by writing many operational and research programs for DUNN. He was involved in continual research of existing trading systems and development of new trading systems. Along with those responsibilities he was also in charge of all trading and back office operations. Since leaving DUNN, David has developed a proprietary E-mini S&P 500 futures trading program. In June 2005 he commenced trading the program as power of attorney as an exempt CTA for clients and in August 2006 David formed Pere Trading Group, LLC, a Commodity Trading Advisor. He is registered as an AP and Principal with this firm. The Pere Trading Program composite performance is presented on page 9 of this document.

 

The descriptions above are from the manager’s disclosure document.