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On the FX side, for the USD based pairs I stick with futures and for non-USD OTC.

Regarding scalability - Most of my trades are in FX, Gold and Crude. In FX for example my typical trade is for 500,000. On IB most of the times I see bid/ask for upto 10M(depending on the pair) within a few pips. I think If I was managing upto10 times what I am right now - about $6M, I...

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Intradaybill - Thanks for your analysis and the results. I double checked for dec 2009 and dec 2010 and the returns were indeed 13.88% You are right I wonder myself if I just got lucky over the last 3 years. The main reason for that is I trade based on basic chart patterns and then I...

A little bit more info on my performance- From Jul2008 todate I have cleared about $1.04M of actual money. This is less than as calculated per monthly returns, but I have been withdrawing regularly for expenses and taxes. I have recorded every trade I have made in excel, so I can manage...

These are actual monthly returns. But every month I have been taking out about $10,000 from my account for expenses(family of 4 and paying off a small amount of the line of credit). Then at the end of the year I pay appx 25% in taxes. From 215K in July 2008, my account size is now around...

I started with about $215K After all the expenses and taxes and paying off part of the the line of credit, I havent been able to accumulate as much.

Folks, Would really appreciate any comments. Just wanna get an idea if the returns are any good before I start approaching some people for funding. I dont wanna get my hopes up for no reason. Thanks

Folks, I see lot of encouraging posts about people starting their own hedge fund or atleast managing friends and families money. I have been trading full time for almost 3 years now. I trade mainly FX and commodities- Here is my month by month performance since July 2008- 2008- 6.81%...