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Posted August 6, 2026 at 10:50 am
Algo Advantage host Simon talks with trader Kieran Duff about his journey creating a platform that allows traders to “trade their way” and attract outside money to grow their assets under management (AUM).
The episode is available on Algo Advantage blog: https://www.algoadvantage.io/podcast/054-kieran-duff-trading-for-a-living-is-easier-now/
Excerpt
In this pod I mixed things up and spoke to a trader without a big fund, a published book, or decades of experience – but that’s what makes it so educational for the rest of us. Within a few short years he’s accumulated a solid track record, and instantly commercialised it by attracting outside money on one of the few platforms that allows a trader to ‘trade their way’ and increase their assets under management (AUM). This is in contrast to the most visible ‘other option’ for getting funded – the prop firms – which are extremely problematic – as I’ll show. The third pathway involves getting licensed and building out a hedge fund (or similar) which is a costly exercise, and in most countries, shipped with extreme regulatory burdens. Not something that you usually want to do until you’ve already got a track, and some external AUM.
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