true N/opmtrader, good brains/CVs are not the only ingredient to successful trading, you need input from people with actual trading experience. I'm aware of this.

In order to accelerate the process I've started collecting CVs so please don't hesitate to email me if interested at alex.darre@btinternet.com

We are still in the early stages. Several people of high calibre have expressed interest but there is a lot of work left to be done on model development and risk management.

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: gericoSA, I don't understand if this thread is a joke at all, anyway, I'm going to suggest you something: when giving away money from your pocket, pretend at least a joint-venture 50-50%: any profit will be subdivided with THE trader who made it, and any losses will be ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: abumazenDid you get the impression that some people think some other people are useless?Most of the people in this forum (other than me) are known to have skills. From what little I know of the social dynamics, I can't think of anyone who would be interested enough to o...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: abumazenGiven the level of expertise of different members of the forum, I was going to recommend to you that you somehow exploit them in the screening of each other's proposals. Problem is, I imagine many people might want a management retainer up front to begin to get ...

<t>it's time to move to the next step. I have received several messages of very high quality showing that there are some outstanding individuals on Wilmott. I thought about how to take things forward and came up with the following approach which, hopefully, will not be deemed pure utopia but possibl...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: spongebobQuoteOriginally posted by: abumazenQuoteOriginally posted by: MarsdenAnyway, my advice to this guy is to start with much less than $300,000, more like $10,000.MPThats good advice, however it might not be feasible depending on the strategies/approaches/markets t...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: MarsdenYou, SA, should lay out in writing as many of the limitations that you'd like to have apply as possible, and I assume that you'd retain both approval for all transactions as well as the right to pull the plug on the whole experiment at any time. I think it would ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: MarsdenSA, I can't see what's really in it for anyone who takes up your offer. He spills his guts to you, and after some realworld testing, you decide whether or not you value his thoughts enough to provide him some reward. More likely, I have to think, is that you find...

<t>DCFC, I suggested IB and WL because the capital I will initially provide is $300,000 so I was looking for what I believe is a cost effective solution when compared to the initial capital. If you can think of a better set-up, don't hesitate to let me know.I haven't drafted any contract so far but ...

<t>I was just asking if there were any good wilmotter out there that could build an automated trading system using IB and WL. I would have provided the capital. If the system made money, we could have used the track record to start a proper hedge fund. I also mentioned that people didn't need to lea...

my post didn't bear any spam element and I dare you to post it so people can judge. I changed to the StrangeAttractor pseudo because of fear of censorship.

<t>I posted a new topic on Sunday where I was asking Wilmotters if any of them would have an interest in starting a managed account that we could turn into a HF if the track record allowed it. I was offering to provide the initial capital and posted that I was looking for someone who could build an ...