CharityHedgeFund

Not really sure we have any feelings of guilt...guilt about what?

That is correct. The individual decides if/when and the size of the trade. We give them what to do and at what price, they decide.

If you look at Performance, it shows you the maximum amount of margin we have used. From memory, somewhere around $38k. This means, had you done everything we did, you would have utilised $38k to generate those P/Ls. But we would not want anyone shadowing us with less than 100k in liquid assets, not at our size. But if we send an Alert to Buy/Sell 4 lots of something, there is no reason someone could not do it with 1 lot. Therefore the $20k-30k mark is really the absolute minimum.

Times are so different now, that our experience is absolutely of no reference to you, in the slightest. When we started almost NO ONE with degrees in finance/economics went into trading side...they all went into corporate finance.When trading exploded, we found ourselves in right place at right time. We literally had 0 competition. And that is how we could set up on our own. When we set up, we were the (believe it or not) SECOND hedge fund in the whole of Europe. Incomparable to the present time and fierce competition.

Backtesting is rubbish. It can give you any result you wish to create. Our REAL track record goes back to 91. We do not show it for several reasons: 1. Legal - we are forbidden by non-compete clauses on sale of our funds. 2. It is not generated using just these instruments. If you traded 200 instruments to generate a track record and then you restrict yourself to 10, what meaning does the previous track record hold? As far as I am concerned it is like comparing apples to oranges. But you are missing the point. We are not running a hedge fund. YOU decide if to follow and f and when to get out. YOU do all the trading. We give you Buy/Sell, price, quantity and stop loss, you follow if/when/with how much you want to and get out if/when you want to. We only show you what would have happened had you mirrored us exactly. But you are ultimately in control. Finally, the Alerts are/should be LESS interesting than the Bias Tables. There we show you OUR positions. That is worth a hell of a lot more...imho.