Recent content by archeolog108

Thank you for the kind words. All the best to you, too!

Yes, we are already managing some small accounts for friends for about a year.

Hi, Me and my business partner have 10 years of market experience. For 3 last years trading we are making 50-60% profits a year with minimal drawdowns on our small 400k USD account at IB. We also run our own companies not connected with finance. We are in our at our 40s and we are thinking of...

It all depends on the size of the capital. Why dozen accounts? I have 3 brokers with access to hundreds of markets in all asset classes.

Trend following was called dead many time in last decades. Always came back from the dead with vengeance dwarfing all other types of trading. 2 years is nothing for long term trend following.

I wonder what type of strategies he ran.... http://buysidefocus.com/hedge-fund-strategies/

Capital for the account. This is the most used %.

I never blew up any account because from the beginning I did not risk more than 1% on the trade with hard stop. I wasn't chasing unrealistic big returns. I tried to become rich slowly.

Retail trading world of signals.

Long only = negative skew = big drawdowns.

The central conundrum to every trader is the question…..are the markets random or not? The reality however is that the market is a random walk much of the time punctuated with periods of non-random directed price behaviour. The market exhibits behaviour characterised by fat tails. What this...

The central conundrum to every trader is the question…..are the markets random or not? The reality however is that the market is a random walk much of the time punctuated with periods of non-random directed price behaviour. The market exhibits behaviour characterised by fat tails. What this...

I don't have measly 10000 USD. Only about 1000 USD.

Hi I am using diversified strategy (about 24 instruments - futures) where average holding period is 10 days. Total CAGR is 79% and Drawdown is 19% in the last 7 years.Of course I can scale down the risk. CAGR/DD will be around 4. Would any prop firm be interested in me trading their money? I...