+2400 % in 5 years - What's the next step ?

VPhantom said:
That's also the kind of guy who's going to have the most regrets on his deathbed: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/04/27/the-top-5-regrets-of-the-dying/

Life is about balance, not blind ambition IMHO.
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Regrets are for losers. :confused:
life is all about making choices. we all constantly have to choose. -- no point in reflecting back in what coulda, shoulda been. there is no right or wrong choice...the choice we made is the choice we made.

Life is free will. -- it's not like we had a gun to our head, and our choices were made for us.
 
Chris Mac said:
Again a thread with a guy with "amazing performances"... OMG. Again and again same stories...
You got your answer in your question. If you were confident about your method, you will not ask for the "next step". You will just compound your own money. Period.

CM
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It's not amazing...It's really good as Rachmaninov is trading short/medium term ag spreads( Real market calls not microstructure or latency edge ) but not amazing as the type of retarded results some scalpers or HFTs get. He probably drove a 20 K account to 500000 K in 4 years and got a 30% DD to get there...Definitely good but not unheard of...:)
 
Rachmaninov said:
Hi guys,

I trade ag futures on my own since 2010 with an average of 90 %/year, no negative year, max drawdown at 30 % and volatility around 30 %. I have a good knowledge of both ag fundamentals and statistics. Turn over around is 1000 times/year, fees eating 10-20 % of my p&l. I hold my positions between few days and few weeks. Its partly algo/trading.
I think I could trade 3-10 m € with my current trading style.

What could be my next move ?
HF pocket ?
Prop trading group ?
Investment banks ?

Thanks,

R
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You won't do 30%/yr with 10MM and your AIs won't want that much vola, even at this level of investment. It's hard to sell a 3 Sharpe when you're risking 30% peak to trough. Especially in ags. Just IMO.
 
I know that you are right but I dont understand why they think like that. If they dont like this vol, they just put 33% of the capital in the funnd and 66 % in bonds and they get 10 % vol/10 % drawdown.
And they pay less fees on average...
 
TraDaToR said:
It's not amazing...It's really good as Rachmaninov is trading short/medium term ag spreads( Real market calls not microstructure or latency edge ) but not amazing as the type of retarded results some scalpers or HFTs get. He probably drove a 20 K account to 500000 K in 4 years and got a 30% DD to get there...Definitely good but not unheard of...:)
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Yeah, scalpers can do much more than 100 %/year
What seem really difficult is to make 100 %/year when you have billions
 
koolaid said:
idiots always post these bait like threads to scam people into giving them money. a fool is born every minute.
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:D -- it's definitely very rare, but it happens.
(But most likely the people who make claims about it are full of it or they are only telling half truths.)
 
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