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That is not correct. Many CTA's have investment min. of 50 K or less. You can not call yourself a CTA if you are not one. I think that would mean serious trouble.

Question to OP : Can you elaborate on the UCIT structure use of the swap ? Do all UCITS CTA's (hedge funds) use a swap ? I looked at some UCIT funds such as DB funds and saw no mention of swap. Is that the only drawback you see in UCITs ? It looks as though most of the true "retail"...

I have never heard one very succesful person attribute their own success even partly to some kind of luck , most wealthy individuals attribute their success to "hard work"and "smarts", in short they believe they deserve credit for about 100% of their extraordinary success, which is human nature...

The collapse and end of the Euro is an anglo saxon fantasy unlikely to happen. Europe will muddle through the crisis but it will probably be a lost decade japan style, worse in terms of employment and standard of living. The rich and famous are just as clueless as the average investor when...

I don't understand the last part with allocating extra contracts/shares :confused: The main issue I have is I trade my own account in addition to family accounts. In the past I would place trades first in my acc, because I then decided the position size according to the one I took in my...

Are there specific rules set by the CFTC that CTA's have to follow regarding how to allocate trades between accounts and who gets the best price in a multi account platform ? I know usually managers use a random allocation process, but from the point of view of the CFTC or SEC are there specific...

This article posted in ag futures ? FYI it has little to do with futures trading. Its about the shady world of physical trading in Geneva, it's all about big business, corruption in Africa , moving around billions of profits to minimize taxes, and Russians . And the tax advantages mentioned are...

I thought it was that evil speculator, what was his name again, he shorted stocks and everything collapsed because of his selling stocks owned by hard working americans meanwhile he made $100 million in the process.

surfer, I don't care if some traders don't believe in TA, at the end of the dyy there is no point arguing about TA, whether trading is a worthwile endeavour etc. I just wonder, if you don't use some TA, what do you do ? Are you an algo trader ? tape reader ? don't tell me you are a...

Your first portfolio equity allocation is all small cap, small cap should generally be seen as an extra diversifier not a core holding which would be large caps. The second portfolio is super heavy in govt bonds, the worst possible asset class to invest in if you listen to many experts...

That's why you should refuse to buy that new junk from Microsoft and all the others, it's a scam called "planned obscolescence" and most people fall for it . I an still using XP Pro and I have one computer that 's 10 years old "+ and still works like a charm, if I can stay away from the new...

I see a lot of LinkedIn groups for algo traders, seems like HFT is the big thing in finance nowadays, perhaps a sign of the times . But if so many people want to move into that type of trading what does it tell you about its future and that of the market ? Anyone taking part in one of these...

China is the biggest threat, the crowds there are crazy, they want war. Once the chinese meltdown takes place, anything can happen . I would not want to live in SE Asia or the West Coast then. The irony is that it's the US govt policies and Corporate America who grew this monster .

Bernanke& co are just a bunch of aholes, why do they need 3 announcements (the "announcement", the forecast, the conference) ? Me thinks they want to keep their option open to support and sweet talk the market after the "announcement". If they do QE which I doubt they will or some other...

OK, I don't understand how the ECB can buy bonds the way it says it will do. Doesn't its chart prevent such operation ? What's Super Mario 's trick to get around this ?

What's the court decision about exactly ? The PIIGS bailout program ? And what about the legality of the ECB bond purchases announced last week ?

I didn't know that, but I never install/uninstall stuff except for a few must have applications, and I never upgrade Win components. If you let software developers have their way they 'll just ruin your life.

the software industry is a scam , there has been no major improvement since 2000, yet they still force you to upgrade. and don't tell me about rich web content and all that nonsense, it has slown down browsing and machines so that you always need more processing more power, mem etc, in the end...

Oh Canada what a great country eh ? Even in Europe politicians don't get into people's life that way ! It's like the Canadian law on assault rifles, you can buy one but you can only put five rounds in it ! oooho oooh

Oh Canada what a great country eh ? Even in Europe politicians don't get into people's life that way ! It's like the Canadian law on assault rifle, you can buy one but you can only put five rounds in it ! oooho oooh