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Lets say you have a $300,000 IB master account with family and friend sub-accounts. You charge a 10% performance fee & your strategy kicks but and makes them a combined $100,000 one year. When would you take that fee out? Monthly? Annually? When they redeem?

Thanks - actually - someone was able to point me to it on OptionsXpress, and also finally found it on bloomberg.

Just wondering if anyone knew where to get minute by minute volume in futures contracts. Specifically VIX futures, which are thinly traded. Thanks if anyone can help.

BINGO. Thanks for playing. If you: -are truly driven -get good grades in high school to get into a good college -get good grades at a good college in a relevant degree ("general studies" is probably NOT where it's at) -and do a legitimate job search with the flexibility to work in a...

I find it amazing that this kid had to lose 14k before trying a Sim account. Must come from money to piss it away like that. 14k is a lot of dough.

that's because they don't want to take jobs where they aren't making a crap ton of money for working 6 hours a day. Previous generations would just be happy to have jobs. Work construction. Wait tables. DO something. They are all waiting for their 'perfect' job to come along. pathetic.

Weak dude. Don't include me in that. Take out 1979. I don't expect anything given to me. Went into the military to earn my degree. After I got I am working my butt off for the big bucks. I do agree there is an entitlement generation but also believe it starts 5-10 years later than you say. My...

Yes. Gambling. No doubt about it. Analysts can cry and whine, but you are really just making educated GUESSes. Call it gambling but your odds are a bit better than a casino if you know what you are doing. That said - it is still gambling.

Just tack on another 20% incentive fee and negative performance and I might as well call myself paulson.

Amazing the range of responses I get here. Some don't bother to read my follow up posts. Also agree with the 13 year olds poster.

Results 2004-2011. 81% annualized, 59% vol. Live Since Nov 2011, up 75%.

I'm not trading futures 100 times a day to make a couple pennies and nickels. I plan on buying or selling a handful at the close once my account gets large enough. More than enough volume for a small investor like me. Currently I am using VXX, XIV, and others to get the exposure I'm looking for...

I am a noob in the sense that I have not traded futures daily for 10 years. I have been backtesting strategies and trading for a while. The backtested results are volatile enough to scare most of my family members crapless. I also explain to them that this could get ugly, for a while, if...

Some of my friends and family have seen the results of my strategy and want in. My uncle was so excited he just up and sent me a check for 10k to invest in the strategy! My question is what is the best way to go about this. I know my strategy will work and want to make them all money while at...

-Not sure what you mean about the first question. The system directs me to trade a couple futures contracts every day at the close. -Yes it produces desirable results. It's doing what I wanted it to do. -What different inputs to you mean? Unfortunately I don't have an out of sample dataset to...

Good point - I see what you mean. Lower Vol and Higher Returns are the key. I'll check it out and get back to you guys.

fhg386, I am in the same boat. I made an algorithmic strategy last year. Been trading it since November with outstanding results and was looking to start an incubator fund (right now it's in my simple account at scottrade). However after reading stuff on here I will just consider getting an...

Yeah that wouldn't work - Futures expire. Comparing it to those VIX ETNs would be the best bet - and I know those always lose out in the long run.

-Automated Backtest - that is, I made the signals and then threw in past data to see how it would perform. (what is a manual backtest?) -Trades futures contracts once per day, at market close. Just a handful. Sometimes no trades at all in a day. -Backtested on Futures Data. End of Day...

Ya, it's the VIX - VIX Futures to be exact. What do you mean buy/hold over the same period? Yeah I was trying to find ways to reduce that vol. I mean, I worked out systems where I would trade 50% or less of the total portfolio, and pocket gains as I made then, but those results were more like...