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savagemp5
 

Registered: Mar 2011
Posts: 205

 

11-20-11 05:29 PM

Hi,

Here's a suggestion from a noob... My investing strategy that I decided to share with everyone.

I've decided to split my funds of my personal acct into 2. 50/50.

50% goes into all so called Fix-Income, high income and cap appreac. funds. I can easily yield a >8% and the AUM volatility, is very low, while sharp ratio is stable.

Reason being, mid-long term investing for my future, and a with $100,000 AUM, I can happily take a $5-6k/yr just purely on dividend income. Sounds not bad, but not enough.

The next 50%:

I started IB with TWS, running automated trading strategies. I run about 5 algorithms, used to detect market movements, and they are do "pretty" well. +- $200 a day, 50-100 trades/day

-Positions held no longer than 5 mins
-no overnight positions
-scalable to any markets.
-Fully automated, hands off intra day trading, support up to 50 quotes (as per IB)

The reason I do this because I want a strategy that has no effects on this bad and volatile market. Now I could scalp, and have net 0 positions, free of cash flow, while tweaking settings and finding good securities.

Here's why I'm stuck. With my entire strategy I wonder what I could do next:
1) Market my fund to friends, relatives, take their capital to trade.
2) Market my automation to a Prop. Connect my system to their IB acct and do it frm home.
3) Sell my s/w to sell-side brokers, setup monthly subs $
4) Start a webby, sell subscriptions to signals of my algos to retailers.
5)Get a job that requires Algo developers. (they are quite rewarding usually >$100k PA)

This may sound stupid, for most retailer traders, but I need advice from good people. You know what I mean. Thks !

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Free Thinker
 

Registered: Nov 1999
Posts: 14316

 

11-20-11 06:29 PM


Quote from savagemp5:


Here's why I'm stuck. With my entire strategy I wonder what I could do next:
1) Market my fund to friends, relatives, take their capital to trade.
2) Market my automation to a Prop. Connect my system to their IB acct and do it frm home.
3) Sell my s/w to sell-side brokers, setup monthly subs $
4) Start a webby, sell subscriptions to signals of my algos to retailers.
5)Get a job that requires Algo developers. (they are quite rewarding usually >$100k PA)

This may sound stupid, for most retailer traders, but I need advice from good people. You know what I mean. Thks !


forget about it.

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Zr1Trader
 

Registered: Dec 2010
Posts: 1536

 

11-20-11 06:47 PM

You either have something that works and you trade it yourself or you have something that looks like it works and sell the dream.

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NoDoji
 

Registered: May 2008
Posts: 8107

 

11-20-11 08:31 PM


Quote from Zr1Trader:

You either have something that works and you trade it yourself or you have something that looks like it works and sell the dream.



You want to be sure to sell the dream with gusto:

BAD: "The SavageMP5 runs 5 algorithms, detects market movements, and does pretty well."

AVERAGE: "The SavageMP5 Trading System:

- Positions held no longer than 5 mins
- No overnight positions
- Scalable to any markets
- Fully automated, hands off intraday trading"

BETTER: "Is that $5K-$6K a year dividend income just not cutting it? The SavageMP5 Trading System may be the answer!

Positions held no longer than 5 mins!
No overnight positions!
Scalable to any markets!
Fully automated, hands off intraday trading!"

BEST: "Just discovered! The master trading secret is finally revealed with SavageMP5's Magic Buy/Sell Profit Machine. We are not talking about guessing if price will go up or down. We are talking about a system that actually knows on which levels price will stop and suddenly reverse, and tells you when to enter and exit a trade.

So, what is it...? My indicator watches what the market is doing in real time and generates signals to place a trade. When a signal is generated all you have to do is press BUY or SELL! That's it! No more thinking! Don't be scared!" *

*I am not making this up: Google "magic buy sell"

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savagemp5
 

Registered: Mar 2011
Posts: 205

 

11-21-11 02:35 AM


Quote from Zr1Trader:

You either have something that works and you trade it yourself or you have something that looks like it works and sell the dream.



Yes. With $50,000 I can only get access to $200,000 buying power. But my returns ? I'll still need more capital, and in this business more capital doesnt means more returns. Look at HFT firms and they have a higher limit.

Thanks for your advise and reply. I think im on the right track!

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savagemp5
 

Registered: Mar 2011
Posts: 205

 

11-21-11 02:40 AM

Guys i really need less crap answers, but I doubt I can get it. I really should forget it heh.

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