Firm Disclosure
Eclipse Capital Management, Inc. is one of the world’s largest and most experienced alternative investment management firms specializing in the directional trading of financial futures, interbank foreign exchange, and equities. Since its incorporation in 1983, the firm has been at the forefront of innovation in global investment strategies and was among the first U.S. investment managers to extensively trade in the global futures markets. Today, it manages portfolios that include more than 40 different markets, representing the equity and financial instruments of the world’s leading economies. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Eclipse Capital offers a variety of alternative investment products to institutions, trading managers and family offices throughout the world.
Eclipse Capital’s founding year of 1983 places it at the beginning of the modern systematic trading era, the same period when the original TurtleTrader experiment was running in Chicago. A firm that has been trading directionally in global futures markets since 1983 and is still operating today has survived every major market cycle, every period of skepticism about trend following, every crisis that destroyed less disciplined operations, and every technological shift that changed how markets are accessed and executed. That longevity is itself evidence of the robustness of the systematic approach.
The breadth of 40-plus markets across equities, financial instruments, currencies, and futures reflects the diversification principle at the core of all serious trend following operations. No single market is essential. Trends appear wherever price moves with sufficient force and duration, and a systematic approach positioned across a wide range of uncorrelated markets ensures that the operation is exposed to those trends wherever they develop. More on how diversification functions within a complete trend following system at the managed futures overview and the trend following framework.
More on Eclipse Capital
- Eclipse Capital principals include: Thomas Moller
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Eclipse Capital specialize in?
Eclipse Capital Management specializes in the directional trading of financial futures, interbank foreign exchange, and equities across more than 40 global markets. Founded in 1983 and based in St. Louis, Missouri, the firm serves institutions, trading managers, and family offices with a range of alternative investment products built on systematic trend following principles.
What does Eclipse Capital’s 1983 founding date signify?
It places the firm at the origins of the modern systematic trend following industry. A manager operating continuously since 1983 has traded through every major market cycle, crisis, and technological change of the past four decades. That operational history is evidence of a robust, adaptive approach that has produced results durable enough to sustain the firm across conditions that have ended many less disciplined operations.
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