Market Size of Hedge Funds in Futures

Among the amount of investments 12% were in Europe and 10% in North America for a total of S$75.63 Billion. See below chart.

4% of these investments or S$3.052 Billion are in “FX and Derivatives” which is the business Strategyland Research is involved in. See below chart.

Over a 3 years period, the potential penetration of automated trading industry commonly known as BotTrading™ could be estimated conservatively at a minimum of 1% of this S$3 Billion. That would represent investments of S$300 Million or US$175 Million (still based on 2002 data!!). Strategyland Research Pte Ltd would have the major share of this 1%, possibly 100% since as of today being the only company offering such products worldwide.

With a cost of running a Strategy at US$ 10,000.00 for Hedge Funds about 17,500 strategy units need to be running concurrently.

With an estimated count of 100 strategies running per Server unit (avoiding overload, and securing fast computation and analysis), that would represent 175 servers in operation for Singapore only. We will later provide more information about the market in other countries in Asia.

We wish to make you known that the number of On Line Traders in Asia (except Japan) as reported by IDC. This quantity of 42 Million users is impressive. Korea is presently the country recording the highest activity of On line Traders. See Chart below.

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