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The “hot†Trading Systems Trap
By: mark soltys
I was recently scanning some performance databases of various trading systems and CTAs and noticed that almost all the tracking services have some form of a “hot listâ€. These were usually a list of the best performing systems or CTAs over a given period. The typical time frames for measuring performance were usually 30 days, 90 days and a year.(read
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The Small Futures Account Conundrum
By: mark soltys
I recently scanned a Commodity Trading Advisor Data base to look at minimum account sizes for managed accounts. I found minimum account sizes ranging from $25,000 to $5,000,000.(read
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Notionally Funding A Trading Systems Or Managed Futures Account
By: mark soltys
When an investor looks at the performance of a trading system or Commodity Trading Advisor, one of the most significant statistics is what the required minimum account size is.(read
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The Managed Futures Small Account Conundrum
By: mark soltys
I recently scanned a Commodity Trading Advisor data base to look at minimum account sizes for managed futures accounts. I found minimum account sizes ranging from $25,000 to $5,000,000.(read
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Managed Futures Choosing A Commodity Trading Advisor
By: mark soltys
Over the last seven years, the amount of money invested in managed futures has more than quintupled! According to hedge fund tracking firm Barclays, assets under management rose from about 41 billion dollars in 2001 to more than 219 billion dollars today!(read
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A Trading Systems Worst Case Analysis
By: mark soltys
Somebody once asked me “if there were only one performance report I could look at to decide about a trading system what would it be?†My first reaction was that this was a silly question.(read
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Robust Trading Systems
By: mark soltys
With computers as powerful as they are today it is easy to optimize a trading system causing it to look exceptional, but an optimized system is not a reliable system.(read
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Day Trading Systems
By: mark soltys
I am often asked about day trading systems. Usually what I'm referring to are stock index systems (E-minis & S&Ps etc).(read
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Choosing A Managed Futures Investment
By: mark soltys
Over the last seven years, investment in professionally managed futures has more than quintupled. According to hedge fund tracking firm Barclays, assets under management rose from approximately 41 billion dollars in 2001(read
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A Trading Systems Start Trade Report
By: mark soltys
Somebody once asked me, “If you had to decide about a trading system by only looking at one performance report, which report would you choose?†My first reaction was that this was a silly question.(read
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