Why we started Campus Fund and Instantly Fund Traders
Posted:
Oct 30, 2024
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Why We Started Campus Fund
A glimpse into history: Prop firms emerged from the need of capital on the trader's side, as (significant) buying power is needed to make trading worthwhile. Typically, exceptional traders could access (more) capital via traditional proprietary trading companies, where traders would be allocated a trading desk on a trading floor, and allocated capital. A majority of the gain was taken home by the trader, and the other part was for the firm. Access to proprietary trading companies was and is limited, and has a high barrier to entry for the common trader, as well as physical constraints, which is often one of the reasons we start trading: To experience boundlessness.
The rise of prop firms showed a bright future, experiencing this boundlessness while still having access to capital, even as a beginning trader. However, as it turns out, these challenge prop firms, rely on unsustainable business practices, which have become the industry standard, and as a result, those firms started infinitely and desperately compromising their own traders, by implementing not only unattainable challenges, but even for those who manage to pass, denying payouts (not mentioning countless other practices that compromise the trader). What was one day an attempt to uniting traders, has become a syndicate against them, something we like to call misaligned incentives.
From a standpoint of aligned incentives, we found ways to utilise technology to create mutual alignment between company and trader, and we started an all-in-one trading platform, funding our own - invited- traders with up to $360.000 in capital, without passing a single challenge. Our users can access up to $1m in funding, and grow further on our own trading floor. Within our own ecosystem of companies, we have the ability to detect, incubate, accelerate, house and scale our own anomaly traders.
