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    Amsterdam Trader needs to hang Series 3

    How to become "a paying site sponsor"? What is the cost?
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    Interactive Brokers Platform for Institutional Traders

    I know some CTAs/CPOs use IB.
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    Lightspeed vs. Interactive Brokers/IB

    These guys are THIEVES. They always find ways to steal your $$$. ---- Would you mind to provide your examples?
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    Trend Following Wizards: main CTA funds in the red in 2009!

    In http://www.iasg.com Can you find some Trend Programs which had good performance in 2009 ?
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    Trend Following 2009: What Went Wrong?

    How about any smaller or emerging trend following CTA or CPO who had good return in 2009?
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    Trend Following 2009: What Went Wrong?

    In stead of focusing on what went wrong in 2009 for trend-followers, may be we can focus on what went right in 2009 for trend-followers. Does any one know any trend-followers CTA or CPO who had good return in 2009?
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    Trend Following 2009: What Went Wrong?

    If you check out http://www.iasg.com you may see some trend-followers with very good performances in 2009.
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    IB futures closing prices

    I saw this issue too.
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    Leverage/financing into a CPO

    Is 20% an average or maximum? if it is an average, how do you calculate your average M/E?
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    Looking to form a cpo/cta

    My understanding is that it is $400K total (not $400K * 15 = $6M).
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    Looking to form a cpo/cta

    Why "CPO" is a lot cheaper than "hedge fund"?
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    CTA Prop Trading Record - Notional?

    Do you mean the statement you receive from Vision contents the initial/maintenance margin number for each position your have? So do you use initial margin number or maintenance margin number? Is initial/maintenance margin intra day or overnight? Did you check such number with the number...
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    calculate Margin to Equity Ratio (MER) for futures contracts trading

    I notice that in some CTA ranking database web-sites, such as iasg.com, some CTA report their average MER How do they calculate Margin to Equity Ratio (MER) for futures contracts trading? Does any one have any idea how that works?
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    CTA Prop Trading Record - Notional?

    How did you arrive the conclusion of "about 40%". I mainly try to understand how did you calculate that? Give me an example, if you would like to.
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    HedgeFacts

    What is that "good buzz"? Does any one use hedgefacts.com? If you do, what are pros & cons?
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    Accounting Software for Partnerships or Managed Accounts

    Does any one have any experience using hedgefacts.com?
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    Notional funding for CPO?

    How do you do average price? Is there special tool you have to use? Which FCM support this?
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    Notional funding for CPO?

    What is "APS back office functionality"?
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    CTA using Give-Up

    Thanks, Arb Under Par. I am new to give-up and I am considering using give-up. I am trying to think about what are the risks to use give-up. 1. If the CTA has many accounts (120 accounts for example) in many FCMs (60 FCMs for example), how does he know the balance of each account daily...
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    CTA using Give-Up

    Assuming you are a CTA and you use FCM_0 as your executing FCM and you have the following client accounts: Client_Account_1_carried_by_FCM_1 Client_Account_2_carried_by_FCM_2 Client_Account_3_carried_by_FCM_3 Client_Account_4_carried_by_FCM_4 Client_Account_5_carried_by_FCM_5 You will...
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