Trading futures and forex involves significant risk of loss and is not suitable for everyone. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Futures are a leverage instrument, and because only a percentage of a contract's value is required to trade, it is possible to lose more than the amount of money initially deposited for a futures product. CME Group is the trademark of CME Group, Inc. The Globe logo is a trademark of Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc.

 

An investor must read, understand and sign a Letter of Direction for WorldCupAdvisor.com (WCA) Leader-Follower™ subscription service before investing.  Performance shown is for proprietary accounts owned by Jan Smolen, Kurt Sakaeda and Patrick Slevin, and is not necessarily indicative of subscriber rate of return and drawdown due to fill price, slippage, funding level and other factors. While great care is taken in the preparation of information presented on WCA, subscribers must rely on their account statements for subscriber-specific performance of any WCA program. Net-profit calculated using advisor’s initial investment, WCA subscription rate and standardized commission rate available through any authorized AutoTrade™ trading service broker. There have been no funding additions to these lead accounts. A unit is equivalent to the quantity traded by the advisor on each trade, and may vary from program to program. Drawdown is the greatest cumulative peak-to-valley percentage decline in month-end net equity during the life of the account.  Subscribers funding with a balance equivalent to the advisor’s initial investment subsequent to the program inception date could experience a drawdown that exceeds the advisor’s historic drawdown on a percentage basis. Subscribers should take this into consideration when determining the funding level of their account. Subscribers who elect to have their accounts carried by a Futures Commission Merchant that does not execute for a selected program may incur give-up fees and additional transaction fees that are not included in the results above. These lead accounts are entered in the 2018 World Cup Championship of Futures Trading (WCC) or the 2018 Index and Interest Rate Futures Championship (IIRFC).  WCC & IIRFC accounts do not necessarily represent all the trading accounts controlled by a given competitor. Accounts trading in the WCC & IIRFC may be subject to commission rates different from those following the AutoTrade program. WCC & IIRFC competitors may control accounts that produce results substantially different than the results achieved in their WCC & IIRFC accounts. WCC & IIRFC entrants may trade more than one account in the championship. These accounts' net return in the World Cup Championship are higher than the programs' net return in the WCA AutoTrade program over the same period due to commission differential and the absence of subscription fees in contest calculations.