Milestones
| Category | Activity 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: Registration | Brand 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:Miscellaneous | Accounting – 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” |