Starting/Working for a Hedge Fund

Discussion in 'Professional Trading' started by ProfitTakgFool, Feb 17, 2008.

  1. If anyone has a question regarding this thread I'll be happy to answer you through a PM. Listening to people call me a liar and tell me how I'm giving this business a bad name, during a time when the "elite" on Wall Street are bankrupt, has just gotten old.
     
    #181     Aug 14, 2008
  2. wildkactus

    wildkactus Guest

    High life all i can say is you don't have a clue.

    your another mouth for the boys club, that thinks every thing offshore or anyone that is not in the club is doing something illegal or are breaking the law.
    BTW Privacy has nothing to do with hiding.
     
    #182     Aug 23, 2008
  3. ScapGF

    ScapGF

    First rule to discourse (behind actually having good points) is to articulate yourself clearly. That includes the correct use of grammar. I am the first to say that nobody is perfect, but this post was exceptional! :eek:

    My apologies if English is not your first language. :cool:
     
    #183     Aug 23, 2008
  4. MagMile

    MagMile

     
    #184     Nov 3, 2008
  5. jjk2

    jjk2

    roughly, the first 10 pages contained lot of logistics, and details about operation, and administrative side of the business. the remaining seems to have evolved into accusations, mixed with discussions of futures trading strategies.

    my question for PFT is if you are not using stop losses, are you monitoring the charts 24/7 ? what if overnight or in a quick moment of notice, a black swan event occurs, and you are unable to close your positions, or running into some problems on broker end ?

    I have my own views about TA, so I wont mention it here, but it seems to be working very well for PFT.

    I would like to see more discussions about logistics....its great to hear from people with actual experience. Also, it would be interesting to see other people more geared for long-term equity investments....

    please keep it up and ignore the trolls.
     
    #185     Nov 12, 2008

  6. A few years ago I started a small hedge fund, which has grown into a fairly good sized hedge fund. Since I responded to this thread my Inbox has been hopping. I'll take a few moments and answer some questions I've received on this thread in the hopes that it will slow down my PM's


    For a CPO to setup up a commodity pool (the Fund; assuming the Fund size is more than 1M; trading nothing but futures), I understand that both the CPO and the Fund must register with CFTC/NFA.

    In above case, does the CPO or the Fund need to register with SEC (either Federal or State level)?

    In above case, does the CPO need to become RIA (either Federal or State level)?

    Thanks.
     
    #186     Dec 11, 2008
  7. Tresor

    Tresor

    Hello Guys,

    I am looking for a US broker who could provide a money manging solution with specific trade allocation and trade settlement procedure.

    The trades (profits / losses, costs and margins) would be allocated, from the master account into sub-accounts, based on clients' percentage share in the pool of all the clients' funds.

    E.g.

    1. If money manager buys 100 NQs from the master account the system will automatically register 5 contracts (profit / loss, commission and margin) into the client's sub-account who has 5% share of the total clients' funds.

    2. If money manager buys 100 NQs from the master account the system will automatically register 10.8 contracts (profit / loss, commission and margin) into the client's sub-account whose funds represent 10.8% share of the total clients' funds.

    The idea would be:
    (i) to treat the clients equally,
    (ii) to prevent the money manager to set other than based on percentage rules of allocating the trades into sub-accounts, and
    (iii) to make the money manager focus on trading rather than on changing lot allocations to sub-accounts every time the total funds increase / decrease.

    Could you please tell me which US broker provides such a solution?

    Thanks
     
    #187     Jan 5, 2009
  8. Tresor

    Tresor

    I forgot to add - this percentage allocation money management solution is quite common with forex brokers but I need it for CME, Eurex, Nymex.

    Thanks
     
    #188     Jan 6, 2009
  9. Tresor

    Tresor

    #190     Jan 6, 2009