How can successful traders find investors easily?

by asking friends and family to invest in their demonstrated, proven skills

nothing else, realistically, will come under the heading of “easily”

at various points in my trading career i’ve been directly or indirectly involved in “raising trading capital” and can offer you a few thoughts, as far as it’s possible to do so in a forum post

you may not like some of what i say (there will definitely be others here who don’t, as well - i can never recount much from my trading experiences in this forum without some people wanting to argue with it, but i can’t help that and it doesn’t change the facts!)

the bottom line, in my opinion, is that there are FOUR big, important things to be aware of, in this context

firstly, apart from informally with family/friends as mentioned above, raising capital from investors is a real minefield (at least in any Western country) because of all the (necessary, understandable) legal constraints of registration, licensing, investment promotion, etc etc, and really expert legal advice, not just from any lawyer but from a specialist, is absolutely essential

secondly, however you look at it, one way and another it’s ultimately going to rest (very reasonably and understandably!) on having an independently verified, independently audited track record of some kind - the details of that vary from country to country, from method to method, and so on, but in general the “accepted industry standard” tends to be that you need at least a two-year record showing at least several hundred trades and without ever having had a peak-to-trough drawdown bigger than 4% of the account - you might find a little bit of variance from that, but really not much (some investment sources might tolerate 5% or 6% drawdown, i suppose, but anything more than that and you can forget it; note that the drawdown is overwhelmingly more important to investors than the profit (well, you’d feel the same if you were investing risk capital, wouldn’t you?)

thirdly, these days it isn’t nearly as important as it was, because there are some (just a few!) reliable, decent, honest funding companies (they’re not prop firms, of course, though in this forum people often refer to them that way) that don’t have arduous or ridiculous conditions but are completely fair, honest, ethical, reasonable, transparent and all the rest of it - and if someone can’t trade safely and consistently enough to pass their time-unlimited evaluations, there’s no way they should be trading anyone else’s money anyway

fourthly - and perhaps the most significant and important point of all - most people have a slightly inflated impression of their own trading skills and abilities, and almost everyone who imagines that their only real problem is their inability to raise trading capital is very deeply mistaken indeed: in this context two things are for sure - (a) if someone can’t trade a tiny account safely, steadily and profitably over a few hundred trades, they sure as hell can’t trade a big one safely, steadily and profitably, and (b) other than friends and family and maybe occasional, extremely gullible people, nobody with their head screwed on the right way round is going to give money to someone trading spot forex or similar CFD’s if the person can’t demonstrate their skills by getting funding from a funding company set up for this purpose anyway

so, all in all, although i may be wrong, i can’t really see how this (or any other) forum can help such a person to raise capital

last afterthought: there’s nothing to stop anyone from “selling their tips” by using a service like “Collective2” (though i would stay well away from “Zulutrade”, myself!!), but again the principle of the independent, verified track record is going to be more or less as mentioned above, anyway, so the reality boils down to the same thing - it’s still all really about “extended proof of safety of funds”

as a politician would say, lol, those are my beliefs and principles, and if you don’t like them, i have others, too :sweat_smile:

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