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Well, I don't know what you're talking about. Perhaps more explanation and less exclamation marks.

No, I don't keep daily numbers, and as far as I know that's not readily available in IB either, besides me pulling a couple hundred of account statements.

Thank you. These results are probably unsustainable but certainly extremely encouraging. I don't ask myself, what my chances of sustaining 50% or 100% returns are, I ask what my confidence level of sustaining above market risk adjusted returns over a multi decade time frame are. If I can...

This thing says I have a sharpe ratio of 4.8, with mean monthly return of 10.15%, and stdev of 7.32%. I've long believed sharpe to be a useless metric for me and typically an overused metric for most strategies, as it assumes returns to be normally distributed and does not account for various...

another one, pieced together from 2 pages, account number edited out

Without looking at the old screen shot again, I'd assume its because of withdrawals. Comon I think a Quantwizard would be able to figure that out =P

Here you go. As I've said before, this is my main IB account, reflects most of my assets and profits, but doesn't reconcile perfectly with the consolidated numbers I'm citing.

Returns are 86% in 2011, 155% in 2012, with max drawdown of 8 to 10%. Year to date 2013 has been amazing, at +53%. I am particularly pleased with this given this was achieved only about 15% of profits coming from my non scaleable strategy, much less than prior years. Furthermore returns were...

A currency fails to fulfill its role as a currency if its going to be replaced by another so easily.

Is it the same treatment for margin interest? I wonder because in my 1099 the margin interest paid item does not include hard to borrow interest fees. I've paid about 10k in total margin interest last year, of which 8k relates to hard to borrow fees, and the margin interest line on my 1099 is...

Are interest charges paid to the broker for hard to borrow short sales tax deductible anywhere and what is the method of deduction? Thanks in advance..

I agree with oldtime. In the event that the exchanges are closed, it would be chaos on the streets. Don't count on any currency system, gold based or otherwise, working in this environment. In this scenario the only hedges are guns, canned food, and survival skills. Personally I find it...

Phoenix, Would it be correct to say that you may have a global macro style of trading? Personally I feel that this is a very hard game to play, given how many professionals attempt this, but without knowing your strategy I certainly cannot judge. I am concerned that your strategy...

Thanks for the comments. What you and Heech are saying make a lot of sense. All in all, I feel that I do need to give the fund set up more consideration. However, as Epic noted, my first institutional investor is taking a large risk anyway. For an institution to invest in a one man shop...

Thanks for the color here. Given me some more things to think about. In addition to the initial set up costs and work needed to set up the structure, it appears that if I trade under a LLC - S corp, my taxes will also be higher, thanks to some self employment taxes and payroll taxes, which I...

I have generally operated under the assumption that I'll be able to get my personal account audited in the future if I decide to raise money then. Do you think there is additional value in setting up some sort of formal structure now and getting monthly audits in real time? The latter...

I have three distinct time horizons. On the long term side, I typically attempt to hold for over one year, as long as risk reward remains fundamentally supportive. On the short term side, I have an intraday strategy. While few would associate intraday trading with fundamental research, there are...

Thank you Heech. Last year was very good and I'm proud of my results. I still intend to raise capital at some point in the future. The core of my strategy is fundamental research. While there are many advantages to being nimble, I cannot really do the type of research I want to without a...

Max drawdown on a monthly basis was about 5.8%. I believe max drawdown would be in the 7 or 8% range. Screen shot attached represents my main account, not including a secondary account and IRA accounts.

Good schools have no incentive to control costs when they have more than enough students desperate to get in regardless of what the price is. I went to NYU and I remember hearing one of the security guards, a mid 30s obese woman, chatting on the phone about how making six figures is nothing and...