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Does anyone know what is the minimum account required to set up with any of these guys? I need a broker/platform that will: *Give me leverage. The same as IB x4 is fine. *Give me access to various international markets, eg. China, Brazil, Russia, Hong Kong, etc, and other emerging but...

Maverick, Top posts brother, top posts. Thanks for taking the time.

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Inability to pass their high water mark has a massive impact on hedge funds closing. Why are Citadel losing all their top guys? Their main funds were down 50% in 2008 and even though they rose about 60% last year, they are a long way from breakeven. And they are about flat this year. But...

What does "ultra" high frequency even mean anyway? Average trade duration in the seconds?

LOL ! Too true. But to be fair to the OP, the fund management business, like any business, takes time to build up.

This would be a good idea if he had $8million. The minimum investment for most real hedge funds is around $1-5million. In fact one of Cohen's funds had a minimum of $25mil. If you did have the money to get into a hedge fund my pick would be John Arnold's Centaurus Energy. Google him. He...

I'm not sure how it is in the States but in Australia or Singapore the cost for setting up a Hedge Fund would be roughly as follows. And this is for top tier Lawyers, Accountants and Custodian/Administrator. First year. $35-50k: Legal advice, structure of Management, offering documents...

Never even considered ETFs. I am looking at indivudual stocks as they give you much more leverage and the obvious opportunity for increased diversification.

Hi Winston, Firstly thanks for your response. Yes I do realise those are some of the larger, well known, HFs. Do you have any idea if they started out with such high fees or if they increased at a later stage? If you don't know, that what would you think? Also do you know of any...

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+4 for Cutten's post. I agree wholly with what he suggested.

Hi, While "2 and 20" is the conventional fee structure, there are several funds that charge more than this. From the top of my head, I know SAC charges 5 (?) and 50, Rennaisance 5 and 44 and Tudor 4 and 30. Did these guys have this fee structure since inception OR did they start with "2...

What does this mean? Hedge fund managers are mostly very active in philanthropy.

I agree. I would expect Longterm trend following strategies to work well in developing economies equity markets.

Hi Benjamin, I am looking at Turkey, Poland, South Africa, and Indonesia. And Russia to some degree. I like Latin America (in particular Mexico, Peru, Brazil) but my broker (MS) doesn't offer access to invest in direct stocks in that region. Emerging markets have outperformed...

I'm suprised 350k gets you on the under 30 list. Look at the main list, the bottom guys are in the 10-25m range. This is from 2007 http://business.guardian.co.uk/page/0,,2054487,00.html

What I would personally do if I'm happy with in-sample and out-of-sample backtesting is paper trade the system until you have completed a statistical significant number of trades. This may be 3 months or 12 months or more. If paper trading was in line with what you would expect given the...

Top top thread guys. I am following with much interest.

Hi sonyericson, It seems the only ones discussing trend following here are you me and the OP. Anyway I define a trend as the following. There can be uptrends and downtrends. Uptrends are a series of bars in which there are higher highs and higher lows. Downtrends are a series of...