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Thank you hangseng, I just spoke to NFA and got that explained clearly. Is is all about falling into categories: principal or AP. The definitions of both are posted on NFA Website. This actually means that you are right, because there are always some principals in any business and they...

Great, thanks again.

Truff, thanks again do you know by any chance about partners forming Corporation (alternatively LLC) ? Who must register and so on ?

Truff, thank you, this has been very helpful. I just spoke to them, but this issue was not sufficiently clarified. This makes everything clear.

Thanks to all, Truff, but then (once you are CTA) you you must register your business, is that right ?

For those who have already passed the exam and those who are currently working on it: any recomendation regarding training materials ?

Thx Volume, but now, it is the time to roll it again :)

Thanks Walther, however I use Interactive as well and they don`t (as far as I know). Thank you for the help.

I know that many brokers offer purchase T- Bills and Notes etc. but would like to hear from those who gained some experience doing this. Also appreciate any tips regarding brokerage services offering such products.

mmm, thanks. I know omnibus accounts, but I am also interested in applications, want to know goods vs. bads.

Looking for trader`s opinions about programs allowing trading multiple accounts. Any opinions greatly appreciated.

Trader.net, thank you for clearing this up. Now all this makes sense. However through this experience I realized that deep ITM calls might be good way to build the same position instead of using SSFs, obviously as long as their liquidity is sufficient.

I read some time ago in "Futures" that SSFs were approved by SEC as substitute of securities for option short selling. I just have learned that it was not true. Anybody knows some more about this ?

I just have checked Ansbacher`s performance record and while it really is around 20%/year however the best year for him was 1997 - 94.93 %.

I just have read the article about CFTS`s struggle in this area. I did not realize that notional funding is so popular. Can anybody share his experience about this ? Looks like institutional clients like it more and more ?

Frankly, I use Excel for many things but was not sure whether it could be acceptable. I personally prefer to use something I can change by myself, instead of getting into all this headache with softs, support and all related updates, which unfortunately are mostly useless.

Aaron, you are so helpful as always, thx. What do you think should be priorities in choosing such softs ?

Once we have such nice support here I would like to ask you guys about software for CTA management and accounting - what are your preferences ?

BH, yes, you are probably right, while I have not checked all details of his performance. But my point is that simple things as long as they are well prepared, can work as well as very complicated ones. Also - as I said, I found another CTA doing similar thing with much better results and...

HD, I have checked his idea much further and here what I have found: 9/11 was not actually the worst period for this concept, regardless the fact it was losing. But the market did not open low enough after disaster ( I was in the area of disaster on 9/11 by the way) to hurt this strategy...