An aligned way to invest in systematic futures trading.

What you're investing in.

NQHero Fund is a small, intentionally-sized limited partnership that runs a portfolio of fully automated day trading strategies (algorithms) across multiple futures markets. Multiple independent strategies trade simultaneously across asset classes — index, metals, and energy — with strict, pre-defined risk parameters on every trade. Profits are distributed to investors monthly. You get paid first. The General Partner gets paid last.

How profits get split.

The fund has three classes. Bigger commitments get better terms. Dave is going Class C — our most preferred terms.

How the split works, step by step

Step 1 — Your fixed dividend comes first. Class C earns 30% per year on the invested amount, calculated monthly. The math: $100,000 × 30% ÷ 12 = $2,500 per month, paid to Dave's account before anyone else gets paid. This is the floor. Over a year, that's $30,000 locked in.

Step 2 — Then we hit the hurdle. The "hurdle" is just a fancy name for "the amount the fund needs to make before any profit-sharing happens." For Dave, the hurdle is his $30,000 fixed dividend. Until that's paid in full, Kobe earns nothing.

Step 3 — Anything earned above the hurdle gets split. Dave keeps 80% of every dollar earned beyond the dividend. Kobe gets 20%.

A simple example

Imagine the fund has a decent month and earns $20,000 in profit. Here's how it flows for Dave that month:

Two parts working together each month: the dividend gives Dave a reliable floor ($2,500), and the profit share on top adds the upside when the fund performs well. The better the fund does that month, the more Dave earns on top of his fixed dividend.

For comparison: a typical hedge fund charges 2% management fee per year on the invested amount regardless of performance, plus 20% of profits. We charge zero management fee. Kobe only earns from the profit split, after Dave's fixed dividend is satisfied.

The single biggest reason for consistent results.

We don't put all our eggs in one basket. Think of it like a business that has multiple revenue streams across different industries — if one slows down, the others keep generating income. That's how this portfolio is built. Diversification is what produces consistency. Disciplined, automated execution is what makes it repeatable.

Shared Capital Diversification — Doing this as a group also diversifies each investor's risk, Dave's included. Pooled capital means the fund operates at a level where every safety layer (capital adequacy, hard stop, gradual scaling) actually does its job. Solo, none of this works the same way.

This isn't buy and hope.

I developed these strategies from years of my own trading experience. They're proprietary and unique to the way I trade — nobody else has them. They've been backtested and forward-tested for the last four years on real market data — every trade simulated against actual price action, every result measured. Below is the portfolio's annual performance compared with the Nasdaq 100 (a typical buy-and-hold benchmark). Numbers below are based on $400,000 starting capital — the amount we'd run the portfolio at to safely absorb the worst drawdown 10 times over.

2022 is the most important year on this chart. The Nasdaq fell 33% — the worst year for index investors in over a decade. NQHero gained 46.2% in the same period, because our strategies profit from both directions and have strict risk controls. This is what diversification across strategies and markets actually looks like in practice.

These results are gross of trading costs (commissions, exchange fees), which run roughly $2,000 per month and are deducted from monthly distributable profit. They're calculated on $400K starting capital across our portfolio of 12 strategy-asset combinations on NQ, YM, Gold, Silver, and Energy futures. The fund will launch at $325K — slightly under our preferred capital level — and we'll scale down position sizes proportionally to keep the same risk profile. Smaller positions, same approach, same level of safety. Past testing does not guarantee future performance.

Who's in the fund with you.

The fund is made up of 6 shares purchased across 4 investors: 2 Class C, 1 Class B, 3 Class A. Dave is committing to one of our two Class C shares, which gives him our most preferred terms.

Gradual scaling. No rush.

When the fund launches, we don't deploy all of the fund's money at full size on day one. We move through stages as a group. Each stage has to prove itself before we move to the next. There are no fixed timelines — we move forward based on results, not a calendar.

This isn't a race. It's the long game. The whole point of this approach is to give every safety layer a chance to prove itself with smaller stakes before deploying at full size.

The most important rule we have.

First, an honest reality check: drawdowns are expected and they will happen. Every real investment has down periods. The point isn't to avoid them — it's to position ourselves with enough capital and enough diversification to absorb them comfortably and keep operating until the strategies recover. That's exactly what this fund is built to do. The hard stop below is the bottom of the floor, not the expected outcome.

What different fund-level outcomes mean for Dave's $100,000.

Annualized view of the same waterfall walked through in Section 02. The fixed dividend stays constant at $30,000 per year. The profit share scales with how well the fund performs.

Forward-tested out-of-sample data over four years suggests these targets are achievable. They are not guarantees. The fund has not yet traded live. Past testing does not predict future performance.

The mechanical details.