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    Starting a fund / raising capital

    I wasn't insulting you in the least, so I really don't know why you get so defensive and angry. Not only do you speak with the confidence of a person who began trading 3 months ago, but you talk to people with the patience and respect of a mean drunk. Not exactly a winning combination for...
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    Starting a fund / raising capital

    I don't have time to quote mine 57 pages, but yes you did state several times you think you can sustain your results. "It is my belief that I can sustain my results and use them to raise capital in the foreseeable future." "But surely if I sustain these results for 5 or 7 years, then...
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    Starting a fund / raising capital

    I don't think anybody is doubting you made those returns. The thing people are doubting is what kind of risk you took on to achieve them, and without knowing anything about you or your trading strategy we can realistically surmise that it's probably significant. Either that, or it's...
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    Friends and Family Accounts

    I should have mentioned in my original post, I'm Canadian. Anyway, my question is with regards to who clients can be and what constitutes soliciting them. Let's say I meet a guy and after talking he wants to invest money in some strategy I'm using. There's nothing saying he can't right...
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    IB - Friends & Family, Advisor Accounts

    Do the 15 or less clients have to be friends or family? It seems like quite a grey area as to what constitutes a friend. If you meet someone and they want you to manage some of their money, what would be wrong with that? As long as you make it clear you are not a financial advisor...
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    Friends and Family Accounts

    When managing client accounts through a group account structure ( say for example the IB version of Friends and Family ) are there any rules about who a client can be? I went on the website and it talked about the total asset value has to be less than 25 million, and you can't have more...
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