Blackstone Commodity Group has been involved in commodities and other alternative investments for a significant period of time. The leadership and strategic partners of the company has more than 50 years of combined experience of trading the global markets. During which time we have been fortunate enough to experience many investment climates and cycles. We have witnessed and taken part in the great oil bull market that took crude oil to above $140 a barrel in 2008 and then the subsequent plunge in oil prices. We have gone through the impressive bull market in gold and silver from 2009-2011 and its correction in price, and also witnessed the harrowing crash in the stock market in 2008.