Monthly Update

Month ending January 2010

 

1.  Commentary

January was another flat month for Zone Capital with a small loss of 0.2% posted on our track record month. Given the underperformance of our systems at present, risk levels have been wound back to our minimum while we continue to wait for the market to start favouring our systems once again.

We have now been testing a new concept in high frequency automated trading that has been developed since late last year and will be putting real money against the system by the end of the month. If the results continue to be positive a small allocation of client funds will also be traded shortly thereafter.

Despite the length of the current drawdown we continue to believe that we will soon have systems that can perform in the current market and are pleased that the drawdown has been kept under 5%.


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 2. Performance

 

 

Jan 10

Nov 09

% Return

(0.2%)

(0.9%)

 

 

 

3.  Track Record* Update

Cumulative Performance

 

 

 

Summary Performance Statistics

 

 

Since Jan 04

Cumulative % return

840%

Annualised % return

45%

Maximum Drawdown

18.7%

Sharpe Ratio

1.4

Sortino Ratio

5.1

 

*Track Record, as presented, is based on the trading account of FuturesTech Pty Ltd (an entity wholly owned by Malcolm Morley, a director of Zone Capital) for the period January 2004 – December 2006 and for the Zone Trading Trust 1 thereafter.  The returns above are after deducting pro-forma fees, consisting of a 2% pa management fee plus a 25% high water marked performance fee.  Zone Capital does not represent in any way that the past performance of the Track Record is any indication of likely future performance.

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