FundSeeder is a platform designed to identify and connect talented traders with potential funding opportunities. It allows traders to link their trading accounts, track their performance, and benchmark their skills against others globally. By showcasing consistent performance, traders can gain visibility with investors looking to allocate capital to skilled managers.

FundSeeder is open to traders of all experience levels, from individual retail traders to professionals managing portfolios. There are no specific qualifications required to join—anyone with a brokerage account can create a profile and start tracking their performance.

FundSeeder provides tools to help you track and improve your trading performance, including analytics, benchmarking, and reporting. By linking your brokerage account, you gain access to performance metrics that highlight your strengths and areas for improvement. Additionally, high-performing traders may be featured to investors, opening doors to potential funding and partnerships.

FundSeeder uses objective, data-driven analytics to evaluate trading performance. Our quantitative assessment is centered on the FundSeeder Score which is calculated using the following components:

• The Probabilistic Sharpe Ratio developed by David H. Bailey and Marcos Lopez de Prado in “The Sharpe Ratio Efficient Frontier”.
• Accounts with an expected one-year-forward maximum drawdown of less than 15% are rewarded.
• Return distributions with “heavy tails" are penalized.
• Traders are rewarded when their most recent performance is consistent with their total performance.
• All things being equal, traders with longer trading history will be preferred to those with shorter history.

The platform focuses on identifying traders who demonstrate skill over luck, with an emphasis on disciplined, repeatable and uncorrelated strategies.

Yes, data security is a top priority at FundSeeder. All user data is encrypted and stored securely. We do not share your data without your consent, and your trading account credentials are never accessible to us. Our platform integrates directly with brokers via secure API connections, ensuring your privacy is maintained.

Creating an account and using FundSeeder’s core features is free. There may be optional premium features in the future, such as advanced analytics or enhanced visualization packages, but the basic tools for performance tracking and showcasing your trading talent are provided at no cost.

Connecting your brokerage account to FundSeeder is very simple and straightforward. We currently connect to Interactive Brokers, Charles Schwab and TradeStation accounts. Visit the links on each brokerage for detail brokerage-specific instructions.

For investors, FundSeeder has two avenues for capitalizing on the talent across our manager: our multi-strat fund and investing in the traders individually. The flagship product of RQSI is an amalgamation of all of the top traders on our platform. Visit rqsi.com to see more information on the RQSI FundSeeder Harvest Fund.

FundSeeder does not have access to your trading account. We connect to your broker via secure APIs that allow read-only access to your trading data. This ensures we can analyze your performance without any ability to modify or interfere with your account. Visit our security page for more details on data integrity.

FundSeeder has been through ups and downs since launch that have interfered with our ability to allocate to our traders. With RQSI’s partnership, we have finally gotten over this hurdle and allocated $29.5 million to 8 traders, starting in January 2025. Visit Our Traders to hear the stories of some of the traders we have allocated to.

If you choose to leave FundSeeder, your data will be permanently deleted upon request. We respect your right to privacy and ensure that no information is retained or shared after you delink your brokerage account.