My Job As: A Trader

freeze4real · 25-06-2013 11:11PM

Hi Idu,

I see that myriad is looking for trainee traders, is this for a whole year ?

Idu · 26-06-2013 06:28AM

Trainee course will be a 3 month internship and then at the end of the 3 months if we feel you have potential you'd be signing up as a trainee. After that it depends on your own progress and profitability etc. There's no set time frame

freeze4real · 26-06-2013 08:51AM

Idu wrote: »

Trainee course will be a 3 month internship and then at the end of the 3 months if we feel you have potential you'd be signing up as a trainee. After that it depends on your own progress and profitability etc. There's no set time frame

Hi Idu,

when will these new course start ?

Edit: starts in september.

Thanks Idu

eVeNtInE · 30-06-2013 03:47PM

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Idu · 02-07-2013 06:22AM

I didn't know anything about the markets, beyond a basic understanding, when I started.

Plenty of books can give you a good insight. There's a list of them somewhere on the Investment and Markets forum

freeze4real · 02-07-2013 07:42AM

Idu wrote: »

I didn't know anything about the markets, beyond a basic understanding, when I started.

Plenty of books can give you a good insight. There's a list of them somewhere on the Investment and Markets forum

Idu can you talk about those who participated in the first training course.

Where are they now ?

Idu · 02-07-2013 01:24PM

I'd rather not talk specifics but we're happy with how the first class is progressing. It's a long road to becoming a successful, profitable trader and the first class only started 2 months ago

Mcoffs1129 · 10-07-2013 08:58AM

Hi Idu,

I have an interview with myriad trading this Friday. I was wondering have you any advice on what questions they may ask me? Thank you very much in advance.

Idu · 11-07-2013 06:37AM

Interview will be very general. It's more of a get to know you thing than a maths test or anything like that. 2nd round interview is slightly different with more maths based questions

continental9 · 11-11-2014 12:09AM

Hi Idu,
I would love to work for a prop firm, I from central Europe so the closest to me is Positive Equity (Split). Not sure if I got you right but first 3 months for new people were not paid then if you got accepted to become a trainee you would still need about 6+ months on average to start trading with live account and make some money.
#1 Are Trainees paid while they're going through this (How much per month approx??) or is it 1st year no payment and later paid by profit?
#2 You started at Positive Equity, got real good and decided to open your own prop firm so you don't have to split profits you make with the owners

+ other benefits? You used your own money you made to start the prop firm and split it among your traders or other investors got in with you on it?
#3 I am stock trader, so was there a possibility at Positive Equity to trade stocks or only Futures?
#4 Is it possible to work for you from home here from central Europe and trade stocks? I can trade on demo for some time to show you the results. Profit is profit, why be limited only to Futures?

Thank you!

greenhoff · 30-12-2014 01:50PM

Idu wrote: »

Interview will be very general. It's more of a get to know you thing than a maths test or anything like that. 2nd round interview is slightly different with more maths based questions

Hi There,

I am not sure if you are still on this thread, but given your experience in working at a few Dublin Prop Houses wondering if you wouldn't mind giving me some advice!?

I started getting onto trading 2 years ago, when I decided to do something different. I had a previous successful business background in and around banking as a consultant, but had never done any electronic trading of futures trading ever. I had a strong interest so decided to take the plunge and see if I could do it. The learning curve is tough and steep on your own. I would imagine learning this in an institution would have been a lot easier.

I spent a lot of time looking at systems and learning the basics about the market, then doing a lot of testing etc. I do not have a math or programming backround, so some of this was hard at first. It also took a lot of work on myself to stay disciplined and focus on technicals and stats rather than fundamentals and various random ideas away from the system, but I believe a talented discretionary trader who builds his own system and sticks to it will do better than most automated systems. The most difficult thing for a retail trader or someone trying to develop this coming from a different background is learning to think in probabilities and accepting the randomness of it all

My system works across all time frames, but to build up some income I will be focusing on shorter time frames. I look at 1-3 trades a day across all asset classes.1) Commodities, mostly energy 2) Currencies 3) Equity Indices and some Fixed Income It is a pattern recognition system looking at supply and demand imbalances with odds enhancers/context rules!
I have spent the last 3 months full time trading simulation with the records audited through TradeStation and reconciled with my own spreadsheets where I manually input the trades and produce data. It tracks everything from strategy, timeframe, entry, trading period, equity curve, expectancy and a lot more.. Over the last 3 months for example I have been very dilligent in this as I am close to getting funding with investors.

65 Trading days almost 100 trades using various timeframes, but mostly shorter time frames, with entries taken off a 5/15 and 60 min chart. Trading in multiples of 3 to scale out with one exit for stops. I customised the account to 30K starting capital and stayed with 3 lots per product and within the margin throughout the sample.

Results over that period are 273% ROI. 13 weeks>no negative weeks. 50 days profitable with 9 negative days with 6 B/E days.. The expectancy is high, but I do not have much comparison as I do not know many traders.

Over the next couple of months I will be looking to trade live with investor money, but I would really prefer to work for someone and get a quicker learning curve regarding execution and some other strategies. I came into this late and I am 40 so would any prop houses consider someone like me or would I have to show years of live results?

Any thoughts on this, or any advice on the above figures would be helpful

Thanks

My Job As: A Trader

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