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    why do funds perform so poorly?

    http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=58143&perpage=6&pagenumber=4 imo, one important factor/aspect for low returns from most funds would be illustrated above - management fees. As probably many institutional investors prefer a small MaxDD 5% with steady 20% returns...
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    Predicting randomness

    I'm afraid we couldn't predict randomness for anything, but we can randomly predict everything including trading (particularly when disregarding the risk of ruins). :confused:
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    Anyone interested in managing an account

    How about a structure like this: Gross Returns => Incentive Fees => Max DD 40.00% => 20.00% => 10.00% 60.00% => 30.00% => 15.00% 80.00% => 40.00% => 20.00% 100.00% => 50.00% => 25.00% and a client can choose what (s)he wants from these options? :)
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    Book: The Misbehavior of Markets

    I guess Nitro must know this book well. :D Q http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1584884134/102-6328113-8274547?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance Potential users often get the impression that jump and Lévy processes are beyond their reach.Financial Modelling with Jump Processes...
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    10 Pip spread - All - Oanda 7:00pm est Sunday

    Daylight Saving Time starts/ends http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dstevents.html
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    10 Pip spread - All - Oanda 7:00pm est Sunday

    Highly likely due to change of daylight savings time.
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    Initial Funding for a hedge fund

    Thanks. However 100 is 10% of 1,000! http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=885509#post885509
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    collective2

    Q http://www.collective2.com/cgi-perl/session.mpl?746&displaypage=tutorial/sherpa/amat/amat4.sessionhtml Third, Collective2 already has a community of nearly 1,000 active traders who are shopping for trading ideas and trading systems. So making your system available on Collective2 is a great...
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    collective2

    The current (probably today's) addition of Max Drawdown data (showed below) supplied by C2 should be useful to make the site and its vendors more professional and credible, imo. This table was last updated on => Tue Nov 1 18:53:58 2005 Annualized % => 115.35% over 121 days (5 Nov 05)...
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    Initial Funding for a hedge fund

    How long did you take to get the first 100 clients through the C2 site?
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    Trading or Investment Banking

    Trading? You must be crazy! :D
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    Anything Can Happen

    Same to you. :)
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    why do funds perform so poorly?

    Forex Magic http://www.collective2.com/cgi-perl/systems.mpl?session=44763285037901930871238851456478113&systemid=15029556&want=publicdetails&showcomments=1 This table was last updated on => Tue Nov 1 07:14:51 2005 => Mon Oct 31 12:34:53 2005 Realism Factor => 100 => 100 Trades => 9...
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    Book: The Misbehavior of Markets

    I think you've made a good point. I don't know whether all the banks make any profits. Probably some (IB) do. However, you should know well that there are few big issues being discussed here that could directly impact us for making profits or otherwise.
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    Book: The Misbehavior of Markets

    "Outline of the Bank of Japan's Foreign Exchange Intervention Operations" and "Systems of Foreign Exchange Intervention Abroad" http://www.boj.or.jp/en/about/basic/etc/faqkainy.htm Firstly, they don't Like to manipulate, but they often do actually Intervene. Q A Day in the Life of the...
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    Anything Can Happen

    Thanks for the "talk". :confused: You must be Deadly serious. :D http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=37327 Q Profile For Charlie Dow Biography Dead for a long time . . . came back to talk some sense into some idiot traders. UQ
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    Anything Can Happen

    :D Spot on! :) http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=57839&perpage=6&pagenumber=5
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    trend following delusion shattered

    Please refer to the answer here: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=883525#post883521 :D
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    trend following delusion shattered

    How about this: Someone says "There is no such thing as trends, but movements. Trading is all about movements, not trends. To do trading well and profitably, we must be good in tracking movements, rather than following trends." :confused:
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    Book: The Misbehavior of Markets

    Here is the answer from Einstein: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=161351&highlight=einstein+and+joke#post161351
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