One thing is certain, Padutrader absolutely doesn't belong in that list of reliable/honest posters. He is arguably the biggest liar of them all and has been exposed multiple times, yet he keeps trying . After 13 or 30 years (the one day he says he has been trading for 13 years, the next moment it could be 30 years) of non stop losing and blowing up his accounts, he called his latest trading signal "Tradergod" and ended up blowing his account after just a few days, yet again.
This is precisely the question I am seeking to answer, except a portion of it. It's exceedingly hard these days to find talent to allocate to that truly have consistent positive expectancy and generate alpha. Just trying to find diamonds in the rough using creative methods to source talent. One can no longer give Citadel, Millennium, Verition, etc. etc. any money. The best Managers in the world are closed to outside capital now.
There is talent and there is money that backs the best of the best talent. I am the latter. However, admittedly it's certainly not easy to find but that is why one gets paid to find talent. It's a full-time job and a half. Obviously, it's not all my money
There are very rare circumstances where people are doing very interesting things but don't talk about it much and just mint money (just like HFT until everyone found out about it or similar strategies). Admittedly, that is one in a million but it exists. Just hoping to find someone doing something under the radar who has more capacity than capital at this moment.