Recent Content by Smoker

  1. A Fund vs. Your Own Money

    So has anyone on the thread gone from trading their own money to trading other people's money since I last visited? Hope all is well for...
    Post by: Smoker, Feb 17, 2014 in forum: Professional Trading

  2. What's the difference between trader and portfolio manager?

    Hi chimera, How do you think the portfolio manager gets a shot at trading OPM in the first place? If you have the track record with your...
    Post by: Smoker, Feb 17, 2014 in forum: Professional Trading

  3. A Fund vs. Your Own Money

    Hi MrN, Well maybe we are talking semantics here but I personally don’t view anyone that ever used a fund of funds or feeder fund to do...
    Post by: Smoker, Jun 20, 2013 in forum: Professional Trading

  4. A Fund vs. Your Own Money

    The following was my comment on your above quote: I forgot to mention that the other reason you know no professional asset allocators lost...
    Post by: Smoker, Jun 19, 2013 in forum: Professional Trading

  5. A Fund vs. Your Own Money

    It is the same for the off shore asset allocators and as with academic studies neither the names of the trader or possible allocator are passed...
    Post by: Smoker, May 27, 2013 in forum: Professional Trading

  6. A Fund vs. Your Own Money

    Hi Smallstops, It is not to be “sneaky” but rather for practical reasons. Simply it is mathematically efficient to use algorithms to...
    Post by: Smoker, May 22, 2013 in forum: Professional Trading

  7. A Fund vs. Your Own Money

    The standard idea is they want a CTA/Hedge Fund that is going to survive and be around and has the infrastructure to pass due diligence so rule of...
    Post by: Smoker, May 15, 2013 in forum: Professional Trading

  8. A Fund vs. Your Own Money

    Hi Guys, I really can’t give you a reasonable answer since my experience is very specific to a single off shore location. I can tell you...
    Post by: Smoker, May 14, 2013 in forum: Professional Trading

  9. What's the difference between trader and portfolio manager?

    When I interviewed with CRT, Hull Trading, Cooper Neff, O’Conner etc in Chicago in the early 80s they all had me do mental “speed...
    Post by: Smoker, May 13, 2013 in forum: Professional Trading

  10. A Fund vs. Your Own Money

    Just if you want to leverage your talent and get seriously rich. Don’t really follow your thinking. To score a big allocation from the...
    Post by: Smoker, May 13, 2013 in forum: Professional Trading

  11. What's the difference between trader and portfolio manager?

    A college interview is mostly personality while an experienced trader interview is mostly mathematics. BTW I have been off the board for a...
    Post by: Smoker, May 7, 2013 in forum: Professional Trading

  12. A Fund vs. Your Own Money

    Hi Seventh Cereal and Rationalize, The problem you have is no one with any serious money to allocate is lazy, just a punter or a degenerate...
    Post by: Smoker, May 7, 2013 in forum: Professional Trading

  13. A Fund vs. Your Own Money

    Only if you are a successful fund that generates alpha and attracts allocations from the professional and not exclusively retail sector. The...
    Post by: Smoker, Mar 4, 2013 in forum: Professional Trading

  14. A Fund vs. Your Own Money

    Hi Ash1972, I think what you would learn is market making is a very good business. And an even better business when technology is applied and...
    Post by: Smoker, Feb 27, 2013 in forum: Professional Trading

  15. A Fund vs. Your Own Money

    Hi Everyone, Ok I was originally before going to the Merc floor for CRT an interbank FX options guy out of one of the Canadian chartered banks...
    Post by: Smoker, Feb 7, 2013 in forum: Professional Trading