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If [0] those returns are accurate, can be proven, and your strategy can be scaled up to multi-million dollar positions, you should take it to a hedge fund/prop shop/etc. and be able to make 7 or 8 figures. Your bonus should be dependent on performance; you may be able to negotiate a % of the profit. Those companies don't care about your background if at the end of the day you make them money.

[0] Granted, that's a huge "if".



I forgot to add the "worst" bit.

It was mostly a gut feeling, after lots and lots of research.

My question basically is, if I show I have been really good in the past - without a specific model - is there anyway I would be taken seriously.

Thanks


and how do you prove some method scale up without either already being on the million dollar scale or disclosing your secret sauce?


The reason financial transactions don't scale is volume - your $100 trade can move a penny stock to $.02 from $.0002 a share if there is no volume.

Some markets can absorb an enormous amount of volume, such as the FOREX market.

Now, when you start making good trades in a "big" market, intelligent players can mimic / play off of them, so it is hard to prove in that regard.

At a minimum though, you could prove that it works on assets that are not volume-dependent.


Short of spending a million dollars right then and there, you can use historical market data. Or datasets provided by the person you're trying to prove it to. Keep in mind that after a certain volume, your model would start influencing the market itself.




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