Milestones

CategoryActivity Description
Stage1: Technology

Showcase the technology expertise of the founding team
– Gather asset data from multiple sources and avoid false/wrong data (Yahoo finance, Paid sources, API via Broker accounts, open platforms)
– News information from multiple sources
– Generate trading signals
– Provide trading signals for financial assets (buy, sell, trade size, time frame, reasoning of the signal)
– Use multiple strategies based on technical indicators
– Forecasting of events in market and Evaluation of the prediction probability (backtest)
– Build machine learning algorithms to provide probability of a certain macro event on a financial asset within a time frame
– Provide the description of the reasons behind the prediction
– Build a market research tool on financial assets
– Gather data from Google trends
– Gather data from website rank
– Gather positive and negative sentiment on a financial asset, business, country
– Gather macro news impact at country and industry level
– Comparison of above tools with similar service providers
Stage 1:Manual Trading 

Showcase the  trading capability of the founding team
– Showcase technology, market research expertise
– Build trading consistency of upto 10 million dollars with the duration and trade logs (as confidential documents)
Stage 1:Algorithmic Trading

Showcase the algorithmic trading capability of the founding team
– Create a pipeline beginning with Trading signal generation
– Trade strategy and Trade approval
– Trade positioning based on confidence (risk management)
– Execution of the trade in the financial market
– Monitoring of the ongoing trade on profits and losses (risk management)
– Review the pipeline for continuous improvement, (risks, growth, metrics, and strategy)
Stage 2: Vision & Strategy
– Describe the vision and purpose of the fund aligning with founding member’s past expertise, planned strategy and the expected RoI for investors
– Market neutral strategy
– Global macro strategy
Stage 3:Onboard Investment 

Showcase our capability and raise investments from institutions, family offices and HNI 
Prospectus | Private Placement Memorandum (Deck preparation)

Overall Vision [A technology and research focused group of Quants]

Technology expertise
– Data science capability (AI/Machine Learning)
– Algorithmic signal generation
– Algorithmic trading

Targeted Markets
– Focused on financial markets with enough liquidity and volatility(metals, crypto, global indexes, currencies)

Trade Plan & Strategy
Market research feeds

Risk management
– Define particulars of trade plan and strategy
– Trade logs
– Trade review

Team Culture 
– Independence, Expertise, Collaboration, Intelligence, Innovation

Advisors (Experts in our strategy)

Core Team
– Managing Partner,
– Chief Strategy Officer
– Chief Market Researcher,
– Chief Trader
– Chief Risk Officer,
– Chief Compliance officer
– Chief Culture Officer (HR/Training/Psychology development)
– Chief Technology Officer

Team Track record (past stats)

RoI 
– 2% management fee and 20% profit fee or
– 1% management fee and 30% profit fee
– Minimum cap: 500k, Max per entity: 5mMax. fund size: 2b$ USD

Investor agreement document
Management fee and profit %

Risks, Strategy definitions, Confidential information

Get Anchor Capital

Build strategic partnership with HNI, institutions and businesses
Stage 4: RegistrationBrand name
Simple, Reputable, Positive
Hedge fund registration
Decide the country (AU, HK or USA)
Choose a name for the company
Register the fund 
Website creation
Law firm partnership
Expertise in financial law and hedge funds
Consultation on the type of hedge fund entity to create (avvo.com)
Stage 5: Fund Promotion
(Expansion of the fund to onboard more investments)
Blog | Articles (Inbound marketing)
Podcasts
Conduct special events
Stage 5:Team Hiring
(Expansion)
Device a plan & strategy to incentivize and {select, engage and retain }  experts to join as advisors and as well as part of active team)

Criteria: past successful track record, compatibility, common vision(principles, beliefs), alignment and expertise in the chosen assets/strategy

Listening and  multi-level intelligence

Availability to work in the contracted duration on the expertise.

Monitor & Measure
Build redundancy
Advisors

Hire leaders in AI/Data Science Technology, Market research, Trading
Stage 5:MiscellaneousAccounting
– Tax file number
– Registration as investment advisor
– Registration with IAR & SEC

Admin
– Find and setup an office space

Operations
– Corporate by-laws
– Compliance manual, code of conduct
– policy and process related to conducting business and trade

Trading
– Find a “prime-broker”