[gringoDan]

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".

[ionwake]

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

[gcb0]

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

[ohaideredevs]

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.

[bduerst]

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.