LF - one suggestion. Get them to give everything to you in writing, all the conditions, absolutely everything. Don't rely on what a scout told you on phone. If the trailing stop is on realized profits and not open profits, tell them to clarify this clearly in the PDF. What I really find odd is why there is no place on the PDF for the trader to sign! Anyways. Cheers.
Good luck Please be sure to report back how your experience goes. You are one of the few here that I know will give an honest assessment
Absolutely. Regarding the PDF, I suspect that this may be just be a draft and not the actual contract. Thanks, Volente. As it looks now, I will be entering the Combine later this fall when my private situation allows it and provided that I don`t discover anything negative that I`m currently not aware of. Hell, I may not even be able to pass the Combine, but I will at least try.
It is on realized profits. If you can't trust what they say on the phone, why do you want to do business with them in the first place? Sounds like the making of a shitty relationship. They are very up front with all the rules. Either abide by them or don't and move on. It's that simple.
Common, I am not being unreasonable if I am telling to have everything in writing. When you open a fully funded brokerage account, then also you sign an agreement. Verbal stuff doesn't hold. Please don't get angry at me
You are asking for a contract before you are even live with them. Sounds pretty unreasonable to me. -Edit, you can also go ask any of the live traders questions if they want to talk to you and ask them, or do you think they are all lieing too?
Lol. The whole scheme is so damn complicated. It just looks like a scheme where Patak doesn't lose if it's head or tails. The coin could probably land on its side and Patsk won't lose. Probably a raw deal for desperate traders. Whateva.
Wrong, Wrong, Absolutely Wrong! Volente has been saying this in the other thread for sometime now. I will write it down more clearly so that everyone is clear on this point. For an individual trader, yes it is there money to a large extent. As an individual trader, you are going to pay for combine + as a live trader, they are keeping USD 1.26 per round trip from you in comms. So, on an individual trader basis also, they are building a little bit of reserve on which they are extending risk to an individual trader. Game completely changes however if you consider all Patak traders as a group: From the perspective of Patak traders as a group, a live trader is risking other trader's money and NOT PATAK's money. As I said earlier - its an elaborate scheme. In fact, it is as risk-free business as it gets and I bet 10% of ET regulars have the resources to put together a competing business like TST in a fortnight. LOL. That would be interesting. 100 clones of TST in 3 months Lets look at the numbers: Consensus is that 1% of traders pass combines in their first attempt. Lets increase it to 5%, so 95% traders are paying for combines. Lets say, they have 500 traders doing 200$ combines for a 50k account. So, at 5%, 25 would pass it and their combine income gets refunded. So, 475 will pay for the combines. TST's combines revenue = 475*200 = 95k per month The risk they are taking on live traders before they cut-them off = 2 times the daily loss limit. Daily loss limit for 50k account is 1k, so total loss before they cut a trader = 2k. So, if all these 25 live traders lose money from day 1 of live trading, Total exposure of Patak on these 25 traders = 25*2k = 50k. Still, Patak made a risk-free profit of 95k-50k = 45k. And this doesn't include the commissions income. LOL. So, the marketing is successful in fooling the trader think that Patak is backing them. When the fact of the matter is other combine traders are backing a live trader. Doesn't mean anything. Any normal person will be courteous while meeting someone else, especially if he is in the business of scouting traders. Madoff was also nice - he raised billions. Patak is a small fish compared to Madoff. If it is a winning proposition, then traders at Patak must be making 30k, 50k, 100k a year. As Lucias has asked, Let Mr. Patak respond on this. Because if only 5 or 10 people are making that kind of money among the thousands who apply, then this is not a winning proposition.
I am in Chicago and no firm does this. Does patak even have traders? Why when i search on linkedin there are no patak traders?