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Allocation of capital

Firstly, thank you for your service :-) . Secondly, my question is related to the administration of the portfolio, but I hope it is still in the realms of the Saturday session. In your "Trade Alerts" you provide a percentage of capital to allocate to the specified stock. I am a little bit confused at this point. Let say you specified – 4%. What does it really mean? Does it mean 4% of the starting capital? Or is it 4% of the whole total, the value of the open positions + available cash? Or maybe something else I haven’t thought of at this stage yet? Could you elaborate on that?

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Hi Robert,

It refers to the percentage of the overall portfolio, which combines open positions and cash. Assuming a portfolio value of $1m, split between $900k in equities and 100k cash, and we put 4% into a new position, the allocation to the new position would be 40k. We do use a proprietary system that we’ve build to administer this on scale, however, manually calculating would work fine for an individual portfolio.

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