Alpha Financial Technologies, LLC (AFT) developed what is known today as the Standard & Poor’s Diversified Trends Indicator or S&P DTI, a long/short commodity and financial futures portfolio, as well as the Standard & Poor’s Commodity Trends Indicator or S&P CTI. The S&P CTI is constituted in the same manner as the S&P DTI, except that the S&P CTI excludes all financial and currency markets. Both the S&P DTI and the S&P CTI constitute the intellectual property of AFT, but are constructed, calculated, and maintained by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) with participation from AFT.

Pursuant to an agreement entered into between S&P and AFT, S&P sublicenses the S&P DTI and S&P CTI to third parties for use in connection with financial products to be structured, issued, sold, entered into, marketed and promoted by such parties. AFT assists S&P in its efforts by educating the public as to the S&P DTI and S&P CTI as well as to its potential uses.

AFT also holds U.S. and foreign patents and has patents pending which cover certain portfolios that utilize the S&P DTI or other long/short commodity and financial futures portfolios.

AFT does not provide any form of investment advice and receives no compensation from any client or clients. Rather, AFT solely receives a license fee from S&P. None of the information or material on this website is intended, or should be used, as any form of advice or recommendation. In particular, AFT does not direct client accounts or provide commodity trading advice based on or tailored to the commodity interests or cash markets or other circumstances of a particular client