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Historical Archive

Industry Collaborations

Authenticated exhibits documenting Argo Futures Group’s historically significant professional relationships with recognized traders, researchers, firms, and market participants, 1997–2021.

Eleven documented relationships

Collection scope

These exhibits document a distinct part of Argo Futures Group's history: the traders, managers, exchanges, and clearing firms with whom the company developed programs, educational events, and institutional relationships.

Exhibit register

The Collaboration Record

Each entry opens a dedicated exhibit containing the surviving narrative, scans, biographies, and period context associated with that relationship.

Original Bond King collaboration brochure cover

Exhibit I / Circa 2004–2006

The Bond King Collaboration

Documented historical collaboration between Argo Futures Group and Tom Baldwin, known in the industry as the Bond King. Primary-source materials include the original Argo Futures Group brochure and supporting archival evidence.

Tom Baldwin — Treasury-bond trader
Invitation to the 2006 CME and Dan Gramza seminar

Exhibit II / 2006

CME / Dan Gramza Seminar Collaboration

Authenticated invitation and RSVP materials documenting a 2006 Charlotte seminar involving Argo Futures, Dan Gramza, and an unnamed CTA specializing in credit spreads.

Charlotte seminar — S&P credit-spread strategy
Steve Kapptie collaboration publication

Exhibit III / Late 2000s

Steve Kapptie — “The Natural”

Argo Futures Group’s first organic emerging-CTA collaboration, arising from an existing individual client relationship. Authenticated primary-source materials include the original Argo Futures Group introduction publication.

Emerging CTA — individual client collaboration
NDX Capital collaboration publication

Exhibit IV / Late 2000s

NDX Capital Management — “There’s Only One #1”

Authenticated exhibit documenting Argo Futures Group’s collaboration with NDX Capital Management, presenting the advisor’s Shadrach, Abednego, and Methuselah programs. Historical rankings and performance figures are preserved as period source material.

Established CTA — multiple managed-futures programs
Clarke Capital Global Magnum campaign material

Exhibit V / Late 2000s

Clarke Capital Management — Global Magnum

Authenticated exhibit documenting Argo Futures Group’s collaboration with Michael J. Clarke and Clarke Capital Management in connection with the Global Magnum managed-futures program. Historical performance figures and campaign materials are preserved as period source material.

Established CTA — direct-mail collaboration campaign
Financial Commodity Investments collaboration material

Exhibit VI / Late 2000s

Financial Commodity Investments — “Diversity—Diversified”

Authenticated exhibit documenting Argo Futures Group’s collaboration with Financial Commodity Investments (FCI) in connection with the Option Selling Strategy and Credit Premium Program managed-futures programs, including the related Sidney Fund, LP structure. Historical program records and strategy descriptions are preserved as period source material.

Established CTA — option-writing and credit-premium programs
M7 multi-advisor collaboration brochure

Exhibit VII / Early 2010s

M7 — The Multiple-Advisor, Seven-Manager Collaboration

Authenticated exhibit documenting the M7 joint venture between Argo Wealth Management Inc. and PFG — a multi-advisor managed-futures program combining seven selected CTAs using risk, diversification, trading-style, and market-exposure considerations.

Argo Wealth Management — PFG joint venture
Alpha Precision collaboration brochure

Exhibit VIII / Late 2000s to early 2010s

Patrick McKenna — Alpha Precision

Authenticated exhibit documenting Argo Futures Group’s emerging-manager collaboration with Patrick McKenna, U.S. Air Force veteran and commodity trading advisor. Argo helped McKenna understand the professional managed-futures business, refine the presentation of his strategy, and develop the Alpha Precision program identity.

Emerging CTA — military discipline and Argo’s professional guidance
White Indian STAIRS program report

Exhibit IX / Early 2010s

White Indian / STAIRS

Authenticated exhibit documenting Argo Futures Group’s collaboration with the White Indian / STAIRS systematic trading program. Primary-source materials are preserved as period archival evidence.

Systematic trading collaboration
Aurora Hill high-frequency foreign exchange program overview

Exhibit X / 2012–2014

Aurora Hill, Ltd. — Mean Reversion FX Program

Authenticated exhibit documenting the Aurora Hill, Ltd. limited partnership and MR8 Mean Reversion–FX Program, offered exclusively through Argo Wealth Management, Inc. The program traded spot foreign exchange on an intra-day basis with no overnight exposure, combining the strategy architecture of Stig Ostgaard with the institutional FX dealing experience of Phil Rausch and Greg Cieply.

Argo Wealth Management — limited partnership offering
Period material connected to the PFG institutional relationship

Exhibit XI / Early 2010s

PFG — Institutional Clearing Relationship

Materials documenting the institutional relationship between Argo Futures Group and Peregrine Financial Group (PFG), including the M7 joint-venture structure and the circumstances of PFG’s 2012 collapse.

Peregrine Financial Group — clearing and joint-venture partner

Method

A Source-Led Collection