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So..... not too different from the rest of the financial market then ? Everything is air when you think like this.

IB's rate so far are the best I have seen. I have negotiated tier pricing with prime brokers with who we had over 300m in deposit and still they weren't beating IB. Service is different tho

Bloomberg terminal is probably the place where would will find relevant news tory to your underlying asset the fastest and see its impact on the market.

You did not insert the only interesting metrics: - What is your annualized sharpe ratio with 2 ticks slippage ? - What is your average trade profit, excluding transaction cost ands lippage - What is your max drawdown - What is your annualized volatility - How many markets

It depends whether you are a full NFA member or if you follow the 4.7 Exemption to only deal with QEP (rich guys). Most of the limitations to CTAs and CPOs disappear when you deal under a 4.7 Exemption.

There are many markets where options are not liquid, e.g. Cocoa, Soybean, etc. and where most of the volume is still done over the phone or through a human broker / chat. Options MM try to make a market for these illiquid markets and hedge it with futures or by back-to-backing it with other...

I am trading futures on commodities.... What does this have to do with your problem ?

No. Normally, your stop orders are triggered by the last deal traded and not by the best bid or ask. So your SL at 11 will be triggered when 1 lot trades at this price or lower.

1. This is one of the big advantage if you deal with a PB such as ADMIS, NewEdge, etc. they're quite expensive but if the exchange halts, you can close your position Over-The-Counter and sleep well until it re-opens. 2. During 9/11 the exchanges halted. 3. You have no right. Conveniently...

A Sharpe of 1 over the long term net of 2 and 20 is very very very good, e.g. Most multi billion dollar funds are between 0.6 and 0.8 Your percent amount is subjective, anything with a Sharpe of 1 will make you 10pc per year with drawdown of 8pc every 7 years... Or 30pc a year with dd of 24pc...

If a strategy is really good that is it generates risk-adjusted return comparable or above hedge fund returns over a long period of time, you probably wouldn't pay 15k$ but 1m$ for it. Buy 6 futures long and sell 10 puts, you just bought below market value, if you exclude your gamma from the...

If the trader is based in Lebanon good luck to get his money or him

Platts is 50,000 or 80,000 usd a year I believe (+ VAT of 20% likely)

Funny how they hacked only arab banks

So you've been flat for 20 days and you think it doesn't work? Just look at any other hedge fund, people have drawdowns for 1 year, 2 years, and are still profitable in the long run. What you should look at is how robust your approach is, what was your research process, what was the room for...

It's already the cases in the few assets that the government have (that is, services that don't suck). Dubai bought the FCA's regulatory framework many years ago and then managed to break it into unmanageable pieces.

Aren't you a QEP given your job ? I think this guy doesn't need you to be QEP and starts at 100k notional which you can probably fund with 25k of cash http://www.soaringpelican.com/ His track includes 3$ one-way and 2%/20% which you can probably negotiate to 0.50$ one-way with your broker, and...

Nobody will ever care about that. They care about your AUM and your risk-adjusted performance.

So how much money can you manage? Institutions (not family offices) will like to be 5% to 10% of your asset base and usually have a minimum ticket of 25m meaning they won't give you less than 25 and you need to be managing 500 for them to give you that. 1. Do you have 500m? 2. Can you manage...

If you actually listen to what the guy says, this relates only to mutual funds and stock pickers. Hedge funds = credit, distressed, private equity, managed futures, etc. This is far from statistical proof.