Where is the right place seeking funds for trading?
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Big Daddy. He's a mobster in NYC. Gotta kiss his shoes tho
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You have to start with building a verifiable track record. Then you have to build a business around that strategy and yourself. Investors focus on your track record as the first filter to determine if they will invest, however they make their final decisions based on the managers and the business they created.
Bob
Post an audited track record that has good performance in all market conditions, acceptable drawdowns, in an instrument or instruments with solid liquidity and they will come like flies.
However if you had that, you would not need investors as you would be compounding your own capital.
Conclusion, chances are you wasting your time.
but i have no capitals. my trading record is not back-testing record (because even it is profitable in back-test level, ppl may lose in real market). I have been trading the market manually and monitor my positions in every second using simulators in the past 2 months. So, my record is real (not back-test) except that it is on simulator level. Due to the nature of my trading(not by any news, not any reports, not any indicators, no outrights also, only natural observations), I need more capital (around USD 400,000) to place orders. i know my trading is a little bit special so i don't know how to persuade investors to give me more capitals. but i can tell investors that the open trade loss will be less than a very small value and investors can stop my trading if exceed this value. do you think this is persuasive?
in average, my monthly return is 15-20% and sharp ratio 0.42. As for my special trading style, technically, profit/loss need to be redistributed. Hence, the daily P&L will have some great positive and negative values. So the standard derivation of daily return is high, resulting the low sharp ratio. so sharp ratio may not be an appropriate measure to evaluate my performance that's why i said my trading is very special but do very profitable. do you know who will be interested in these "out-of-the-box" trading methods? I know traditional prop firm won't be interested coz they will ask me to follow many rules...
my trading style is very special but only earn money...do you know where can i find investors who are interested in "out-of-the-box" trading methods?
I agree
it always smells fishy...when beginner so-called star traders ask for money to trade. If you're as good as you say...you can grow your own account exponentially with compounding.(if you don't have any seed capital...then get a job and save for it.)
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I agree
(if you don't have any seed capital...then get a job and save for it.)
somehow you are right. however, there is many trading methods. some people may need a rather larger capital which himself/herself cannot afford this amount (just like me). also some methods would have liquidity problem, which means that there is a limit on compounding. for example, for my method, with around USD 400,000 capital, I can achieve 15-20% profit each month. This initial capital amount may be the max already so no compounding next month...
yes you are right, if I cannot find investors, the only mean is saving money by by myself. However, for my special method, to start trading, already requires a certain capital...
anyone can tell me how to persuade investors...
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