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Did anyone try the incubator fund or hedge fund services from Greencompany vs. from Capital Management Law Group? If so, can you provide your experience/insights in terms of the service quality and costs at the setup and going forward basis? Any one?

I like to learn more about incubtor funds too. Can any one share some experience?

You typically need to do an incubator fund and get an audit before you can start a full-fledged fund but if you know a few investors who are willing to invest with you without all that stuff then that is your start. Has anyone ever asked you to trade money for them? If so you have one investor...

Beside a fixed percentage of mamanegmnet fee, can a RIA charge "performance fee or incentive fee" as well? Does any RIA have this experience? Thanks.

5. Thoughts on requiring all of your clients to setup an account at one brokerage Any one have this experience?

Equity Margin Ratio (EMR) = Margin Equity Ratio (MER)?

Are you sure your 8% calculation is correct?

Anybody familiar with HedgeFacts? if so , please share your views, experiences? www.hedgefacts.com Thanks! Any one have any experience with hedgefacts?

Is it possible to open an entity account with IB or bank and the entity name contains “.” ? For example, if you establish an entity legally called “abcxyz123.com LLC” (which is a domain name with “.”), does IB allow you to open account for that legal name which contains “.”...

For the following two options: Option 2: Time-weighting --- My understanding is that for this option, you just need to have all monthly statements for all accounts. Each monthly statement will have time stamp on when (which date) the deposits or withdraws were made. Based on that, you can...

Can you just find some related documents from CPO and make changes based on that?

If you are a CTA and if you use Interactive Brokers (IB) as a FCM and if you place a “block orders” or “bunched orders” for all your Client Accounts, how does IB implement “objective systematic non-preferential price allocation procedures” which is required by NFA/CFTC? Just try...

avg. margin to equity comes out around 12% over historical testing. My actual number as of today is 11.8%. Up 80% max dd 27% ytd. audited. Going to launch my CTA and Pool by August. Although there is a lot of paperwork etc. mer 12% ytd up 80% mdd 27% This is outstanding. How often...

Why would you make your business so complicated? Can't you arrange such details to make it easier on yourself? Agreed and trying. That is the reason I try to figure out which option may be the easier to implement to calculate ROR. Any suggestion?

07-10-08 01:16 PM Quote from Sunshine4ever: Neither method is easy to calculate, although in my view Compounded ROR is more accurate than the others. Not only is it "more accurate", it's perfectly accurate... easy to do, to. Mutual funds use it. What happen if you have a...

If you are a CTA, what option you use to calculate ROR? According to page 9 of “Disclosure Documents A Guide for CPOs and CTAs” http://www.nfa.futures.org/COMPLIANCE/publications/dd2001/DD2005.pdf There are 4 options to use. Which option you use? And why? 1. ROR is defined as net...

Backtesting over last 25yrs while adjusting leverage I get returns of 26.3% max dd of 13.5 What leverage you used? 2:1 ? 3:1? or what was the value of MER or PBER you used for leverage?

I'm not following any recomendations immediately. Not even if Warren Buffett or Goldman Sachs gave me advice. I just want some ideas to study, analyse, develop possible scenarios, and ONLY THEN, I may put them to work. I complete agree with this approach. I did that too from time to time.

I wonder whether the owners of the accounts you manage, are aware of your policy of soliciting free advice from total strangers on how to manage their money. And if they're aware, whether they approve. I wonder whether it might make some of the a little queasy. Well, I do not see the...

IB ceo made it crystal clear on qtrly conference call that retail and institutional would get access to the Futuretrade platform. So what is "Futuretrade platform" and when it will become available?