A Pioneering Managed Futures and CTA Research Firm
Stark & Company was originally founded in 1987 by Mr. Daniel B. Stark as Stark Research Inc. Mr. Stark has nearly 30 years of futures experience beginning in 1981 as a local floor trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. There he traded his own proprietary account while aggressively studying Fibonacci and Elliot wave principles, various chart formations, cycles, and a variety of trading methodologies.
In 1987 Mr. Stark acquired the rights to the Norwood Index. The Norwood Index is one of the industry's first benchmark indexes, which began tracking 9 commodity futures funds in October 1978. The Stark Fund Index today tracks the performance of more than 200 futures funds worldwide and is the oldest continuously published index on managed futures fund investments.
For more than 20 years, Stark & Company has been researching the managed futures industry while compiling and publishing performance and analytical statistics on futures traders and funds in a variety of products, newsletters, and reports. All of the firm's research data is now available through the STAR CTA Database.
Today, Stark & Company provides access to a unique and qualified team of professionals with over 70 years of combined experience in portfolio structuring, asset management, institutional research & due diligence, marketing, operations & compliance, and trading.
The firm is a data provider to PerTrac, a leading performance analysis software vendor.
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YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY CONSIDER WHETHER YOUR FINANCIAL CONDITION PERMITS YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN A MANAGED FUTURES ACCOUNT, COMMODITY POOL OR OTHER FORM OF FUTURES INVESTMENT OR TRADING. IN SO DOING, YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT FUTURES AND OPTIONS TRADING CAN QUICKLY LEAD TO LARGE LOSSES AS WELL AS GAINS. SUCH TRADING LOSSES CAN SHARPLY REDUCE THE NET ASSET VALUE OF THE POOL OR ACCOUNT AND CONSEQUENTLY THE VALUE OF YOUR INTEREST IN THE POOL OR ACCOUNT.
FURTHER, MANAGED COMMODITY ACCOUNTS AND COMMODITY POOLS MAY BE SUBJECT TO SUBSTANTIAL CHARGES FOR MANAGEMENT, AND ADVISORY AND BROKERAGE FEES. IT MAY BE NECESSARY FOR THOSE ACCOUNTS AND POOLS THAT ARE SUBJECT TO THESE CHARGES TO MAKE SUBSTANTIAL TRADING PROFITS TO AVOID DEPLETION OR EXHAUSTION OF THEIR ASSETS. YOU MUST BE PROVIDED A COMPLETE EXPLANATION OF EACH EXPENSE TO BE CHARGED ANY OR OTHER FORM OF MANAGED ACCOUNT BEFORE YOU INVEST TOGETHER WITH A STATEMENT OF THE PERCENTAGE RETURN NECESSARY TO BREAK EVEN AT THE END OF YOUR FIRST YEAR IN THE INVESTMENT.
THIS BRIEF RISK DISCLOSURE STATEMENT CANNOT DISCLOSE ALL THE RISKS AND OTHER FACTORS NECESSARY TO EVALUATE YOUR PARTICIPATION IN A MANAGED FUTURES ACCOUNT, COMMODITY POOL OR OTHER FORM OF FUTURES INVESTMENT OR TRADING. THEREFORE, BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO PARTICIPATE IN COMMODITY TRADING, YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY STUDY THE DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT PROVIDED BY THE COMMODITY POOL OR TRADING MANAGER. YOU SHOULD PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL RISK FACTORS ATTENDANT TO ANY INVESTMENT BEFORE YOU INVEST.
YOU SHOULD ALSO BE AWARE THAT COMMODITY POOLS AND OTHER MANAGED FUTURES ACCOUNTS MAY TRADE FOREIGN FUTURES OR OPTIONS CONTRACTS. TRANSACTIONS ON MARKETS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING MARKETS FORMALLY LINKED TO A UNITED STATES MARKET, MAY BE SUBJECT TO REGULATIONS WHICH OFFER DIFFERENT OR DIMINISHED PROTECTION TO THE POOL AND YOU. FURTHER, UNITED STATES REGULATORY AUTHORITIES MAY BE UNABLE TO COMPEL THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE RULES OF REGULATORY AUTHORITIES OR MARKETS IN NON-UNITED STATES JURISDICTIONS WHERE TRANSACTIONS FOR THE POOL OR ACCOUNT MAY BE EFFECTED.
THE INFORMATION PRESENTED HEREIN IS NOT AN OFFER TO SELL SECURITIES OR FUTURES ACCOUNTS OF ANY KIND.
ALL TRADING INVOLVES A HIGH DEGREE OF RISK. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. THERE HAVE BEEN NO PROMISES, GUARANTEES OR WARRANTIES SUGGESTING THAT ANY TRADING WILL RESULT IN A PROFIT OR WILL NOT RESULT IN A LOSS.
