Darwinex UnCut

Javier Colón explains the impact of the new D-Score on key Darwinex assets such as the Darwinia competition and Rebates.

He also explains how Darwinex makes proprietary capital allocation decisions, what factors influence the same, and the challenges Darwinex faces in deploying company capital vs those faced by individual investors.

Javier Colón sheds light on where the new D-Score leaves existing Investment Attributes at Darwinex.

Specifically, he sheds light on the Performance attribute's future, given the correlation to the new D-Score as a result of the latter's formulation via a DARWIN's Quote.

Javier Colón shares his experiences with DARWIN portfolio creation, his considerations, investment criteria etc.

He states that these findings are in no way the ONLY ways to construct DARWIN portfolios, and encourages the audience and the wider community to leverage the DARWIN API to improve upon the New D-Score, create their own if they so wish!

Considerations, logic and specific details around the calculation of the new D-Score.

Javier Colón shares what Darwinex has learned through time and over various iterations of the D-Score that have lead to its current state as deployed on the Investor Platform.

He sheds light on the problems with the current D-Score, and how over time it became increasingly difficult to iteratively improve upon it due to its depedencies on Darwinex Investment Attributes.

In this first episode of the D-Score Series, Javier Colón talks about the history of Darwinex and all its Diagnostic Algorithms.

Javier takes listeners back in time to the origins of the D-Score and Darwinex itself, highlighting everything that has contributed to their evolution to this.

He sheds light on the need for Darwinex's Investment Attributes to begin with, what purposes they were intended to serve, and how the D-Score came about in its first form.

In this episode we go through a possible sequence DARWIN manager can follow to attract investor capital to their DARWIN. With focus on the stage where they go from one investor, which is themselves / DarwinIA, to two investors which already involves third-party capital. Brought to you by Darwinex: https://www.darwinex.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video-description-above-fold&utm_content=from-one-investor-to-two-investors

Most relevant subtopics covered in the video with their timestamp:

00:53 - The hardest leap to perform is to go from zero investors to one investor.

01:20 - The next quantum leap: to go from one investor to two investors.

01:59 - At some point, you sort of become meta popular in the sense that you are popular because you were popular and then you become popular.

02:35 - How to ease the burden from zero to one.

03:24 - How to ease the burden from one to two - empowering the people who want this the most, which is each and every one of the individual Darwin managers to seek people who trust them the most.

05:20 - Summary of the sequence of attracting investor capital presented previously.

For a transcribed version of this video, visit https://sonix.ai/r/xauLBDBodQdp5Bbhm4ftwm4o/share

Videos referenced:

* On the legalities of attracting of promoting your DARWIN without and investment advisor license: https://youtu.be/lcoN663Xbhs?t=330

* Derek Sivers - How to start a movement: https://youtu.be/Qu3xpp5BbHU

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In this episode, we describe the key differences between Traders and Managers - and why it's crucial for individuals to be able to identify themselves as one or the other (they are not one and the same).

Managers are Traders, but Traders are not Managers.

Brought to you by Darwinex: https://www.darwinex.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video-description-above-fold&utm_content=traders-vs-managers-investors-which-one-are-you

Specifically, Juan Colón - CEO @ Darwinex - explains how important it is for people to understand these differences, as they literally make all the difference between managing proprietary vs proprietary and 3rd party capital investments.

Key points in the video for your convenience:

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01:59 - What is the difference between a Trader and a Manager?

05:29 - What do Traders do differently that doesn't make them Managers?

06:09 - What makes Managers different to Traders then?

07:59 - What is Darwinex looking for, Traders, Managers or both?

09:14 - Darwinex is for Alphas: Traders who already are or aspire to be, Managers.

09:57 - What do Managers need to be Managers and not just Traders?

10:21 - What is the difference between an Investor and a Manager?

10:50 - What Darwinex IS and what it ISN'T (very important to understand this)

12:03 - Who Darwinex is NOT for?

Resources referenced in the conversation:

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1) What is an Alpha? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxsL3FLd06U)

We very much await your feedback here on YouTube, via voice message from https://www.speakpipe.com/Darwinex and on the community forum: https://community.darwinex.com/t/trader-vs-manager-vs-investor-which-one-are-you/7824

Risk disclosure:

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If you've been trading for some years, chances are you remember more than one so-called "flash crash". A video by Darwinex (https://www.darwinex.com/). Check out the whole Brokernomics series in one place: https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-mini-series/7130

This video is about what flash crashes are and how they come about.

We cover:

- What can trigger a flash crash

- What happens next, after the trigger event

- What's the role of stop orders

- How leverage exacerbates the crash

We also touch upon how liquidity fragmentation relates to flash crashes. We explain liquidity fragmentions with available information about US commission-free broker Robinhood.

To know more about liquidity fragmentation, read this letter by Interactive Broker CEO Thomas Peterffy at https://blog.darwinex.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2018-IBG-AR-dragged.pdf.

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Where is Darwinex going about blockchain?

To be clear, we have no plans to take Darwinex to blockchain yet. We have no clue how to do it.

But there're elements of our business model which are smart contracts, i.e. "blockchainable". E.g. the certification of traders' track record.

But there's much more.

- We're all about protecting traders' IP so they collect fees on their performance. But who vouches for Darwinex itself not replicating the IP without paying fees?

- Alpha producers bring a lot of value to Darwinex and get paid for it. This is fair. But is there room for making them also shadow shareholders of the company?

- Or sales guys who're good at attracting investors. Is there a way to reward that better than affiliate schemes?

In summary, Darwinex is as much by its customers as it is by its founders. Blockchain offers an opportunity to reward value that suits this model.

Are you a practitioner in the blockchain sphere or know someone who is? Please bring them on so we can have a conversation with them!

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