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as an investor, i do wonder "if its working well consistently, why wouldn't they keep it a secret?" So that makes me immediately suspicious as to why I'd want to use it if it wasn't working well enough for you to use yourself.

Just curious how you answer that question b/c if returns are good enough, you should be able to raise money for a fund w/ no problem.

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It's definitely a great question! The answer is simply that we didn't have enough investment capital for it to be meaningful, though we do still trade on it to build our track record to show investors. All of our angel investors came on board only after first using the product. But also we feel like we have priced it so that people can try it out fairly painlessly and decide for themselves if they find it valuable. Though we haven't had any unsubscribers to-date ;)

Why not go out and raise investment capital?

Also consider managing a portfolio on www.covestor.com to both profit from your work and build a public track record.

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