Ken Kinkopf was the founder and president of Kinkopf Capital Management, LLC. Mr. Kinkopf was an associate member of the National Futures Association (NFA) and registered with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as an associated person and principal of Kinkopf Capital Management. Ken Kinkopf founded Kinkopf Capital in April of 2005 and was responsible for all trading decisions and management of the firm through September of 2021.
Kinkopf Capital provided individual and institutional investors alternative investment opportunities in the managed futures arena specializing in the S&P Index Futures. Diversification into this unique asset class has been shown to provide risk reduction through portfolio diversification over time.
Mr. Kinkopf has over 30 years of market forecasting experience and has sustained in all market conditions during the period. Ken has extensive expertise in trading the S&P 500 Equity Futures since 1989. He is committed to Risk Management and believes that discipline will allow his investment strategy to remain viable in the face of market adversity. Ken has been trading systematic, non-discretionary trading programs since 1999.
In May of 1991 until 1996, he co-foundered and became president of K&D Financial Corporation in New York, which provided sell-side financial advisory services in the managed futures industry. The company was registered with the CFTC as a CTA and was a member of the NFA. Mr. Kinkopf managed client accounts using a discretionary trading system. In addition, he also provided technical advice for two forecasting advisories and wrote articles discussing several of the statistical tools and techniques used in his forecasting models.
Mr. Kinkopf is a guest speaker and technology consultant. He spoke at Terapinn Quant Invest, High-Frequency Leaders Forum, and Wall Street & Technology events. He has written white papers on Quantitative trading methods and technology required for systems implementation. Ken Kinkopf also was a World Cup Advisor sponsored by Robbins Trading. Mr. Kinkopf was one of eight global speakers invited to present forecasting strategies at the Taiwan 2007 Futures Trust Enterprise Forum in Taipei to help foster the development of trading in the emerging market.
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Top 10 Total Return for 12 months ending June 2021 - Morgan Hedge Award 4
Top 10 Total Return for 36 months ending April 2021 - Morgan Hedge Award 4
Top 10 Total Return for 36 months ending June 2020 - Morgan Hedge Award 4
#1 in Top 10 Total Return for 12 months ending June 2020 - Morgan Hedge Award 4
Top 10 Sharpe Ratio for 36 months ending August 2018 - Morgan Hedge Award 4
#1 in Top 10 Annual Composite Return for 36 months ending August 2018 - Morgan Hedge Award 4
Top 10 Total Return for 36 months ending January 2018 - Morgan Hedge Award 1
Top 10 Total Return for 12 months ending January 2017 - Morgan Hedge Award 1
#1 in Top 10 Total Return for 12 months ending June 2016 - Morgan Hedge Award 4
Top 10 Sharpe Ratio for 36 months ending February 2014 - Morgan Hedge Award 1
Top 10 Total Return for 36 months ending February 2014 - Morgan Hedge Award 1
Top 10 of Top 20 Hedge Funds for 2012 (trading less than 100 million)- Bloomberg 1
Top 10 Traders of 2012 - Futures Magazine, March 2013 Issue 1
#1 Stock Index Trader for 2012 - CTA-Info Flash Reports 1
#1 Stock Index Trader for 1,3,5,7,10 year periods (ending Dec 2012)- CTA-Info 1
Top 10 CTA in 3,5,7,10,13 year periods (ending Dec 2012) - CTA-Info 1
First Place in five (5) CTA Challenges - PFG 2006-2010 3
Won $2,000,000 in trade allocations- PFG 2006-2010 3
Top 10 Traders of 2009 - Futures Magazine, March 2010 Issue 2
#1 Stock Index Trader for 2009 - CTA-Info Flash Reports 2