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If someone prefers the broker structure, insted of a prop firm, but still wants good leverage, you can get it here too : https://alarictrader.com/ (€5k needed, up to 10:1 overnight and 40:1 intraday leverage for larger accounts, located Bulgaria EU) (this one is not for US residents(!))...

For reason I do not want to publish source, but I posted nearly all trading tips from great traders, so feel free to look at those posts.

James Simons (Systematic Trader & Hedge Fund Manager) Born in 1938, James Harris Simons is an American mathematician and a billionaire hedge fund manager. He specializes in statistical analyses and systematic trading and he is known as the 'Quant King'. His fund, Renaissance Technologies, is...

Victor Sperandeo (Derivatives Trader) Born in 1945, Victor Sperandeo is an American commodity and derivatives trader, known as “Trader Vic”. Sperandeo traded, particularly in the energy and metals sectors. He is the CEO of Alpha Financial Technologies, LLC (AFT). It is said that until 1990, he...

William Delbert Gann (Equity Trader) William Delbert Gann (1878 – 1955) introduced innovative technical analysis tools such as the Gann angles. William Delbert Gann is said to gain 50 million USD during the Great Depression. Only in 1933, is said to have gained 4,000% on his capital (422 winner...

Jesse Livermore (Equity Trader) Jesse Livermore (1877-1940) was also known as the ‘Boy Plunger’ and the ‘Great Bear of Wall Street’ because he had made a fortune by short-selling the market during the American stock market crashes of 1907 and 1929. Jesse Livermore's Trading Tips These are the...

Larry Hite Born in 1956, Lawrence D. Hite is a hedge fund manager and one of the forefathers of system trading (along with Ed Seykota). Larry Hite co-founded Mint Investments in 1981. By 1990, Mint Investments had become the largest commodity trading advisor in the world in terms of assets...

Louis Bacon (Macro Trader) (another great billionaire trader) Born in 1956, Louis Moore Bacon is an American global macro trader and a hedge fund manager. In 1990, he founded 'Moore Capital Management' with a $25,000 inheritance from his mother. in 2017, Forbes Magazine estimated his net worth...

STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER TRADING TIPS ■ Focus on the FED and liquidity Earnings don't move the overall market; it's the Federal Reserve Board. Focus on the central banks, and focus on the movement of liquidity. Most people in the market are looking for earnings and conventional measures. It's...

They say they also use swaps, but who is on the other side of those swaps then ? They also had to do transaction to hedge their swaps. So the only viable tradable option to replicate the night effect is trading the futures which is also the most cost effective solution. And the market on close...

People who made wars do not count as traders I would say, because you cannot say a war is a kind of trade. They also forced other people to pay taxes, which is against the free will of any trade(s). The richest of all times was Emperor Augustus Caesar with ca. $4.6 trillion or 30% of worldwide...

If you go back over time scale then the greatest trader of all time could also be Jakob Fugger and the Rothschilds some centuries ago (being merchants or kind of traders). At that time they were huge to world GDP output in relation.

As Soros showed us it is the understanding of the markets where the edges come from and not the Math & coding thing.

If you want the only edge from Jim Simons was that he is reputable math expert, who was able to hire also reputable IT experts. Without having that reputation it might be difficult to hire his IT experts he got. But this is all about perfectioning a working strategy, that is all what his...

One could also say that the capability of Soros strategy is much higher in multiple times than Simons $10 billion strategy. Of course the sharpe may be higher on Simon, but there are several market makers who have also double digit sharpes so higher sharpe ratios than Simons. So I would say the...

In Simons book it is also clear the main trading idea until today was brought from an employee of Morgan Stanley where they had some very good years until it stopped working for them then they got hired from Simons. There they could not make it to work because of transaction costs. At that time...

More Soros than Simons, because Jim Simons was only the man who hired the right people surrounding him. With some of the proper employees they built that strategy, without input from outside Jim Simons would have never achieved that results. He just was the owner of his fund, that's it when you...

Is there a website where you can easily backtest a portfolio of leveraged carry trade strategies over some decades ?

https://sagefx.com/ https://www.trustpilot.com/review/sagefx.com New prop firm with score 6.3 for the 200k challenge offer. That is good offer, but they are new, so payout proofs still needed. But this is one to watch. They ask 10% profit as goal with 12% max. DD, so that is on Euler figure...

3 times leverage QQQ & SPY overnight ETFs are still missing, but this is a progress for the beginning.