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Doesnt this mean that a typical setup that you identify shows up around 25 times per day? Or approximately every 13 minutes during the trading day. Sounds quite high.

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Can anyone recommend a good (and not overly expensive) laywer in the San Francisco bay area to handle the paperwork in setting up a very small exempt CPO (commodity pool)? Also, can anyone recommend a good local accountant with experience in working with CTAs and CPOs? -bulat

Interesting question. Can you tell us what the right answer is?

Different futures have different trading hours. They are all posted on the exchanges' respective websites (CBOT, CME, NYMEX, etc.)

I just finished reading "Hedgehogged" and "Running Money", both written by hedge fund managers who talk about the travails of raising money for their funds. The impression I got from these books, is that they received most of their client introductions through their prime brokers. The prime...

Thanks Aaron. So this version of Turbotax can properly classify which income is short-term cap gain, which is long-term cap gains, and which is just regular income, after accounting for all the performance/management fees?

On the encouragement of some friends, I've decided to start a CPO fund to mange some of their money, and since the initial amount of money in the fund is under $400,000, the pool is exempt from all the various registrations. Does anyone have some experience with the logistics of such an...

So then would be it accurate to say that for a fund, your only options of marketing it are: 1) Approach people you already know 2) Hire a third party marketer with a big rolodex 3) List yourself in the ranking services and hope that potential investors notice you Can those really be the...

Do you know if it feasable to cold call the private wealth management firms and pitch your fund, or would this also require an introduction?

Has anyone had any success (or lack thereof) contacting financial advisors and family investment offices that cater to high net worth individuals? I've been considering whether putting together a list of such financial advisors/investment managers and cold calling them directly, is a viable...

I had Flash, Shockwave and Quicktime all stop working in Firefox after I upgraded from 1.0 to 1.5. Still havent figured out why.

My observation from watching the IASG.com database over the last few years, is that the funds with very consistent month over month returns, and small drawdowns attract capital very quickly even with moderate returns. While those with big equity swings or long drawdowns dont attract much capital...

I've been quite happy with tickdata.com

It'd be really interesting to see the performance stats on one or two of your better systems with and without the filters (ie entry only) to see how much of a difference they end up making. -bulat

You can get it dirt cheap at www.anfutures.com -bulat

Does anyone know of a quick and easy way to get the exact price of ES and NQ at pit open time (9:30am EST) within a few minutes of the open, without getting some overpriced charting service like ESignal? -bulat

Great explanation, thank you. I think I mostly understand what you are saying except for this "target" definition. For instance, say you are building an Opening Range Breakout system. What would constitute a target of 1 vs a target of 0? -bulat

I'd like to ask you a question on a slightly tangential topic, the testing of identifyers. Say you are building a system (ie buy open + .2*AvTrueRange) and are compiling patterns to filter trades. You test three identifitiers: (these are just examples) open[1] > close[1] high[1] < high[2]...

Having conducted this exact experiment, I can tell you that after examining millions of basically random patterns, and finding a whole bunch that are consistently "better than random", I tested the consitently good patterns, on an out of sample time period. About half performed better than...