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an important question is "what is the chance that a given trader has performed this well due to skill?" to answer that you will want to ask "what is the chance a random coin tossing chimpanzee could have achieved those results?" but before you can even begin evaluating individuals you need...

proprietary traders at the big firms will get about 10% of what they made for the firm in a year. could be plus or minus depending on how well the whole firm does. hedge funds will typically ask for 20% from their investors on any profits they make (on top of 2% of total assets under...