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Cost of carry eg. margin rate is not really talked about by these prop shops. It makes sense that there has to be a cost to "rent" money, but these firms seem to obfuscate this in their sales pitch.

I've talked with a couple Prop shops and they've basically stated that if your profitable, we'll give you as much buying power as you need. They conveniently refuse to give a precise ratio of capital contributed to buying power, so I'm a bit skeptical. After all, if I contributed 50K of my...

Why aren't the returns comparable? Hedge funds exist to maximize returns for their partners, traders are out to maximize their own returns. Sure its somewhat harder to produce a given % return the larger the capital base because of liquidity issues, but I am talking ballpark ranges of returns...

Most posters on ET talk about making X $ per day, or week, or month. To me, this amount is not meaningful, because it doesn't take into account the capital actually deployed. (or the risk taken) The average hedge fund YTD November has returned 5.9%. http://www.hedgeindex.com/ Let's...