QEP Certification

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Certain Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) programs are available to qualified eligible persons (including Non-United States persons) as defined by CFTC Regulation 4.7 (QEPs). By signing this certification, you certify that you are a Qualified Eligible Person.

A Qualified Eligible Person must meet the following two requirements: 1) the investor must first be an accredited investor. The most common ways for this are to either have a net worth of $1,000,000 or more OR an annual income of $200,000 or more for the last two years OR, combined with a spouse, $300,000 per year for two years, 2) the investor must meet an additional portfolio requirement, which is having $4,000,000 in securities holdings OR the person must have on deposit with a Futures Commission Merchant at least $400,000 in exchange-specified initial margin and option premiums, and required minimum security deposit for retail forex transactions).