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    CTA's experiences using introducing brokers.

    There are actually more like 2,000 CTA's out there that report there numbers to BarclayHedge. Which means there are many more that are in the start up stage as well. It is 3 Palms in Denver and Attain Capital in Chicago. Both are excellent at what they do.
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    CTA's experiences using introducing brokers.

    It is a bit of a head scratcher that people use IB's to find CTA's when they are investors of that size but they do. PFG best for example has a platform that has about 80 CTA's on it. All of the people who have accounts there can access it and often times go through it to make an allocation...
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    Please Define "Too Big to Fail" and "Systemic Risk"

    I believe the government money is only delaying the inevitable in the case of todays economy. I think that while injecting record breaking amounts of capital we did little to improve or change our financial world. The stimulus is a PR approach to helping our citizens without getting their...
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    CTA's experiences using introducing brokers.

    IB's have their place in the CTA business. They are good at finding "Retail Accounts" 100-250k. All of them will take the brokerage business either by clearing trades themselves or by give ups. Most will want 10-15% of the incentive fees on top of the brokerage business. In my opinion it is...
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