Inside the Founders Circle: The FTS Daily Signal
A look at the daily deliverable our Founding subscribers receive, and why we run it at two very different sizes.
Each trading session, our Founding subscribers receive the FTS Daily Signal Report: a same day read on eighteen global futures markets, generated off the official end of day settlements. It is the most operational thing we publish. Where our intelligence report explains the world, the FTS signal tells you exactly how our systematic model is positioned across rates, equities, currencies, energy, and metals, long, short, or flat, market by market, with the book carried into the next session. Today we want to pull the curtain back for our regular subscribers and show you what that looks like, and why we run it at two very different account sizes.
The signal. The engine is systematic and rules-based, with no discretion in the daily read. It measures volatility normalized trend across multiple horizons in each of the eighteen markets, so a quiet market and a wild one are judged on the same footing. Positions are sized by risk parity, meaning every market is held to a common risk budget rather than a common dollar amount, and the equity sleeve is always net hedged, never pointed a single direction, which is where much of the program’s stability comes from. Signals fire off the settlement print and execute into the close, and the position book is refreshed every session. That discipline, and the parameters behind it, are the part we keep proprietary. What subscribers see is the output: the direction, the posture, and the running performance, laid out clean every day.
Two sizes, two purposes. We publish the same signal through two lenses.
The $25,000 model is the accessible one. It is a hypothetical track sized so the strategy is legible to anyone: you can see its shape, its drawdowns, and its day-to-day behavior without institutional capital. Think of it as the teaching version, the clearest way to understand how the program breathes.
The $500,000 institutional book is the real dollar version. Running the complete eighteen-market book in whole, tradeable contracts, including full-size Treasuries, takes institutional capital to keep the risk in a professional band. $500k is the floor where the entire book can be held in real contracts at an institutional volatility, without dropping markets or over-concentrating the account.
It is the size an allocator would actually deploy, and it is tracked in true dollars off the very same daily signals.
Same engine, same signals, two honest representations: one built to teach, one built to trade.
This is the daily rhythm inside the Founders Circle. If that is the kind of edge you want running in your own process, that is where it lives.
Here is a brief blurred sample of the $25k daily output for the Founders tier which updates by 4:30pm EST so that those playing along can see the changes before the end of the day:
Here is a brief blurred sample of the $500k institutional daily output where the book is running the real dollar full version. Given the complexity of the program and the size of the markets that can scale, this is the conservative base actual minimum that we feel an institutional client would be based at:
We will be back shortly with a full intelligence report: the usual deep read across the MEGA9s, the Futures Market Trend Program, and the rest of the book. We are continuing to refine our work and we hope that our subscribers notice the progression. As always our goals are simple, to make you a more informed and intelligent, savvy market participant and to engage in a way that provokes your mind toward a more non-linear process.
If your an investor or a trader and your looking for an engine that has already done the work and your searching for a strategy that you can tweak, refine and build from then we believe this new endeavor is for you.
Every investor is different, risk tolerance is different, but what should be a standard is DISCIPLINE.
-Team Magnelibra
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