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What other variables do you use? Yes, January tells us more about the yearly trend. Thus, I want to take the average to smooth the data. Should this be done in Excel?

Hi - I want to backtest the following: I want to take the price action of January every year and see what it has done for the remaining of the year and take the average of the last 20-30 years. Is it better to do this in Excel or can it be programmed?

Hi - how do I get a list of all the introducing brokers who service managed futures accounts?

But ideally, using the first example, if you account value is at $51,000 and account balance after pulling management fees was $49,900, then you should be able to pull the incentive fees on $1100 and not $1000....right?

SO the CTA needs to make more than the management fees pulled in order to be profitable for the month?

Let's say the account starts at 50K on the last day of the month. There was no money made in 1 day and hence the account closed the month at 50K as well. Now the opening balance for the next month is 50K and we pull lets say $100 in management fees. Again, this month, there was $0 made/lost for...

Okay. I thought there would be a requirement for some securities or commodities business license as well. Glad to know that's not required.

I meant is there any business license we need to take in order to start trading as a CTA?

Hello fellow traders - what are the things one needs to do before he starts trading for a CTA? 1. Clear Series 3 exam 2. Get an approved ddocs from the NFA. Anything else?

Hello friends - what points do you generally include in a fee sharing agreement? Is it 20% of all fees or only incentive fees?