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Managed Futures

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Are you a winning trader?

PFGBEST is committed to the discovery of new and emerging CTA talent. PFGBEST’s Managed Funds Division identifies and establishes long- term relationships with select CTAs to expand its managed funds marketing programs. By entering the CTA challenge PFGBEST is able to monitor, track and promote winning CTAs. The winner of each quarter, based on the best risk-adjusted performance, becomes eligible to trade a PFGBEST account in the amount of $250,000. The CTA winning the CHAMPIONSHIP SHOWDOWN will be allowed to trade a PFGBEST account of $1,000,000.

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Contest Results

2008 - 2009 Showdown Winners

Lindakivi Capital Management

Lindakivi Capital Management is the winner of the 2008-2009 6th month $1,000,000 showdown, with a ROR of 35.61% and a risk ratio rate of return of 2.69.

Lindakivi Capital Management has 2 principals: Indrek Raud and Sandrina Mayela, with a combined trading experience of over 20 years. The Theseus Program is fairly unique: it combines writing out of the money options trading strategy with seasonality trading. In their carefully made trading decisions, the principals consider among other things; liquidity, volatility, and time left to expiration. As an added benefit, Theseus Program is exposed to a wide variety of markets: energies, metals, grains, currencies, index futures and softs.

2009 2nd Quarter Winners

Ken Kinkopf

Ken Kinkopf was the winner of the 2nd quarter of the 2009 CTA Challenge with a Monthly ROR of 15.29% and a risk-adjusted ratio of 6.04.

Ken was also a the first place winner in the PFG quarterly CTA challenge ending May 2007 and November 2006 as well as the 1st place winner in the 2007 Six-Month CTA Championship Showdown Challenge.

Mr. Kinkopf is an associated person and principal of Kinkopf Capital Management LLC. Mr. Kinkopf is responsible for all trading decisions and the general management of the firm. Ken Kinkopf uses a systematic technical analysis approach that incorporates fundamental data that is programmatically analyzed and then statistically evaluated to produce a trading system that is robust with the ability to react to system changes over time.