You'll have to check around. I've heard FoF fees at 1% AUM and 7% of new profits. I have no idea how this compares with the industry. They...
The difficulty is in raising capital and convincing your clients that they need a middleman (i.e. you) to put them into funds -- if you have to...
80% of my longs were up and 72% of my shorts were down for the day (36 securities total). Doesn't feel indiscriminate to me.
CCJ - about $50 MM worth of volume a day
That's fantastic. Good for you. My wife will not get close to this stuff...I probably bored her one too many times with some story about net...
That's a good policy. I used to update daily, but found economies of focus so to speak, if I could just sit down and do the whole week at once....
I have to do some accounting for my fund this morning...the dark side of trading as a business that no one tells you about...charts just happen to...
Anyone else seeing this? I'm seeing orders on the Mkt Depth. I'm seeing orders crossing times and sales. It's wierd. Although some might...
It's 10 AM CST on Sat and the ES are ticking between 1239 and 1238 and change. I have tradestation data -- did CME change the hours? Am I...
I am just hopping in here without read all of the posts. Let me say this. I have started two funds, once with a prime broker and once without....
btw, you need amasters or equiv to be a broker at goldman. these days the preferred euphamism is FA or Financial Advisor
UPDATE -- I finally got it. Fader you were right. I had to use the: =mydem123|acct!id2?acctp? (replace id2 with id# for any other line of your...
Hmmm. I tried both of your suggestions and neither worked. Both times, the result returned was "0" to the cell. Excel is clearly communicating...
yes, it works with IB's example -- but I'm having issues connecting from a new, blank worksheet.
I have spent much of the day searching for a very simple answer on Elite, IB help forum and their documentation to no avail. Here's the issue....
KTM is right about this -- and I believe (although this should not be construed as legal advice) if you are under $25 MM in assets you CANNOT...
I think you'll just have to hire a third party/independent accountant -- so whichever one you can negotiate with to verify your statements etc. at...
Of course a purely discretionary trader can be consistently profitable....obviously you have to have something guiding your decisions, but you...
I sat down and thumbed through the Mandlebrot book in Borders one day. I tried to just hit his major conclusions -- many of them are things that...
Almost any broker could get acquired... why spend your time worrying about it? If it does happen and you don't like it, you'll have plenty of...
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