What is this guy doing?

yc47ib · Feb 21, 2021

cruisecontrol said:
That is quite naive. Once your data is on there it is potentially vulnerable going forward. Even if it's not a fraud or inside job, look how many huge leaks/hacks happen all the time.

I'm guessing your strategy is very capacity constrained since your account is so small and you keep doing withdrawals. Perhaps this is why you don't care. But generally speaking for someone with a strong edge I would not recommend putting it at risk just to see your graph on the site.

Thank you, I might take back the control from Fundseeder when I feel somthing is not right, I am assuming it is a Kosher company with all the data security measures, on top of those by IB.

Letting one account growing too big is never a good idea as a trader, IMHO.

topdog · Feb 21, 2021

topdog said:
Can you please disclose your

- average winning trade result ?
- average losing trade result ?
- how many (%) loosing trades ?

You don't have to disclose $ amounts. Give %, points, ticks or pips.

Thank you.

@yc47ib
So you don't have to disclose traded instruments, scaling strategies, position sizes or anything like that, what would give a hint what you're doing.

Just disclose those 3 simple things.

cruisecontrol · Feb 21, 2021

yc47ib said:
Thank you, I might take back the control from Fundseeder when I feel somthing is not right, I am assuming it is a Kosher company with all the data security measures, on top of those by IB.

Just to clarify, I am not making any kind of allegations against fundseeder. I have no reason to believe they are not legit. I just think it is not appropriate for me or people in a similar situation (high sharpe capacity constrained). Starting a fund to earn 2/20 makes no sense economically, so putting my strategy on there was only for vanity. Then I realized it might come with a significant risk as well.

yc47ib said:
Letting one account growing too big is never a good idea as a trader, IMHO.

For me trading is a business not a hobby. Growing the account as big as it can get is the whole point. You need a lot of money in the account to make a lot of money, since that's how exponential growth works.

To be honest I don't really get where you are coming from here. If you spent enough time to develop such a great strategy, why limit your returns if you don't have to? Do you have huge tail risk or something?

topdog · Feb 21, 2021

topdog said:
@yc47ib
So you don't have to disclose traded instruments, scaling strategies, position sizes or anything like that, what would give a hint what you're doing.

Just disclose those 3 simple things.

And of course the # of trades.

sef88 · Feb 21, 2021

yc47ib said:
Thank you, I might take back the control from Fundseeder when I feel somthing is not right, I am assuming it is a Kosher company with all the data security measures, on top of those by IB.

Letting one account growing too big is never a good idea as a trader, IMHO.

You have very impressive results. Hope to learn more from you if you are willing to disclose the nature of your strategies.

yc47ib · Feb 21, 2021

This account does not trade US instruments, thus not much to share, sorry to everyone who asked. If you personally trade non US instruments, you can PM me, I opt not to disclose which country's instruments this account trades.

topdog · Feb 21, 2021

yc47ib said:
This account does not trade US instruments, thus not much to share, sorry to everyone who asked. If you personally trade non US instruments, you can PM me, I opt not to disclose which country's instruments this account trades.

Why don't you disclose the following ?

# of trades
# of losing trades
Average winning trade (% or points)
Average losing trade (% of points)

topdog · Feb 21, 2021

topdog said:
Why don't you disclose the following ?

# of trades

# of losing trades

Average winning trade (% or points)

Average losing trade (% of points)

I mean what is the problem you cannot disclose these simple statistics about your system ?

Or is this a some kind of snake oil project ?

sef88 · Feb 21, 2021

topdog said:
I mean what is the problem you cannot disclose these simple statistics about your system ?

Or is this a some kind of snake oil project ?

He may not trade in a discrete manner (me too). I'm unsure. You can probably understand his trade distribution from his stats like sharpe ratio, drawdowns, etc.

topdog · Feb 21, 2021

sef88 said:
He may not trade in a discrete manner (me too). I'm unsure. You can probably understand his trade distribution from his stats like sharpe ratio, drawdowns, etc.

But he/you still have to open and close positions. Every position gives you a result. No matter discrete or not. Hedged or what ever.