Should be a way to get around this obstacle. At least for a startup period until you get moving. Have a girlfriend, friend, wife, sibling...
Well, if you can keep it up. The outcome of one single day, week, or month doesn't mean squat. Continuity over a longer period of multiple years...
Before you can manage other peoples capital you need to be able to manage your own. Get to the stage where you are continuously making $100.000 in...
Have had thought about that, why not use crowd sourcing platform to bring in OPM. A systematic trading strategy is basically a software product...
Some good reads: http://www.cmegroup.com/education/files/CTA_guide_1-3-08.pdf...
Usually as a CTA/HF you expense monthly at the first day of the calendar month. This also keeps withdrawals/deposits in sync with end of month...
As I understand the top two winners of the tournament receive 3 million dollars each to manage and pocket fees from. A decent amount of money imho.
Anyone have experience about these guys? http://www.battlefin.com/ They host regular trader tournaments to evaluate and find talented...
Interesting post s0mmi. These guys, do you know what percent return do they make in a full year and what are their account peak-to-valley draw...
Not saying you should not trade until you have that amount. Just that you should not leave your six figure day job prematurely. If you have a nice...
Of cause you grow your equity up from a smaller size. My point was that you should keep your regular job and trade part time until you have enough...
Well, then one is able to sustainable generate $200k annually from the trading. That is what is needed for me to give up my current job to pursue...
With a FOK GTC order? If you put out a limit buy Fill Or Kill with GTC and a larger size than the market maker can offer, it will be published...
Lost $62,000 in the two weeks then Lehman went bankrupt. I was short naked index puts selling Theta, say no more lol. That is my single largest...
Impossible to say a generic rule as it is a factor of many different metrics together. - Win/Loss ratio, ie. percent of winners. -...
Being too risk-averse is a bad thing in trading. You will never acquire greatness if you are too risk-averse and fearful. Just suffered from...
45% seam to be very high. As a general rule equity draw downs should be keep't within maximum 20% No accredited or institutional investor would...
It is the ultimate strategy game. If you are right you are richly rewarded, on the other side you are wrong and fail.. The game is still the...
So who is interested in participation in the project, development, giving feedback, testing? I'm planing to set up a module on Github. Name...
But that is not what the outcome will be for a strategy returning on average +50%. The lowest return you will see for 12 month period is ~11%.
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