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I have been watching the 2022 Australian Open. I love to watch individual spots because I learn a lot about my business from the human emotions, failures, successes, and situational events that occur.
The one that caught my attention this week was during the semi-final match between Rafa Nadal and Matteo Berrettini. Lesson: You need predictable consistency to win the war of investing.

In the 4th set of their semi-final match, Berrettini needed to win that set to stay in the game. He was down 1 set to 2 against Nadal. He knew that if he lost the 4th set, it would be game over. He started playing unbelievable Tennis – as described by the Euro-sports anchor. I watched him win 4 love games in a row in his service game. It was later analyzed that he won 23 points consistently on his serve. He was on par with Nadal and edging closer to taking the set. Nadal had no answers to Berrettini’s upper hand in the game.

Suddenly, while they were both balanced on serve, Berrettini was in trouble. After 5 clean love games in a row, he was down a break. Nadal seized the opportunity and closed out the set and the match.

I started wondering, why would someone who played so well suddenly drop in consistency? In a flash, he was out of the tournament!. Tennis is a very unforgiving sport, a slight error can mean the end of your grand slam. You need to be consistent. Alas, very few men and women are consistent. It is very difficult for humans who excel in an area to perform at a high level consistently. However, it is very easy for humans to remain consistent and do bad things! E.g. a player who can consistently play poorly in a tennis match and lose the match; it is rather difficult to consistently play well and win. That is why those who manage to do it are few in number and are well paid for it.

In investing, it is similar but worse. You have to stay consistent. Doing the right things and taking the right decisions. Failure to do this could be the end of your capital. In the case of Investing, not only may your grand slam be over, there may be no opportunity to play next year because you could lose all your funds. Therefore, make sure you are investing using an investment vehicle that is consistent.

How does Berrettini ensure he can be consistent in his next grand slam? Practice, Practice, Practice. Is this foolproof? No. Despite the practice, emotions could cause him problems. His serve may still fail him. He could even serve properly and the ball ends out of court!

At 5Mastery, we have solved this problem in our investment operation. We took out the part that humans cannot do consistently and gave it to a guy who can – computers. I am sure Berrettini will pay top dollar for a machine that can consistently position his arms, legs, breathing, racket tension, etc in a way that he can serve aces. To his detriment, however, he does not have such a machine and it is not allowed in his sport. Fortunately for us, we are allowed to use machines to compete with men in investment and trading. Machines will come on top over a long period of time because they are consistent.

Is 2022, is your investment strategy consistent? Do you have a Hedge Fund that is 99% automated to deliver you profits consistently? We have developed such a strategy in our trading and investment and it has been operating consistently since 2018, delivering profit every year since then. You can see our performance here.  It is based on Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning.

Knowing what to buy or sell is easy. Buying and selling in form of trading are easy. The most difficult part is flawless consistency in execution, always, even while the crowd is against you and when everyone else is losing their heads. Humans do not do this well – mainly due to emotion. We give that job to the computer in our Automated Trading and Investment system and let the consistent results speak for themselves.

Disclaimer: Not everything in trading and investing can be automated. We get that. That is why our automation scope is not 100%. It is 99%. That is still a lot. It is the reason we are so consistent in our results. In 2021 for example, we had 10 months of consistent positive results in our overall fund portfolio. That led to a fantastic 2021 return to our investors. You can read more on this here.

Watch out for my next lessons.

In the meantime, you can join our newsletter by clicking here, you will enjoy more articles like this and get to attend our free webinars. You may well be on your way to investing in a Retail Hedge Fund that is more consistent than a grand slam tennis champion.

Sam Adegoju
www.5mastery.com

Thank YOU!
We start this newsletter with thanks to YOU. You have been a strong support to us during 2021. In case you are wondering “What did I contribute?”. You reading our newsletter is a contribution as it motivates us to write more content, some of you put your trust in us and invested and of course your much appreciated constructive criticism which helped us improve as a company. As we go into 2022, we continue to count on your support.

December 2021 Performance
December 2021 Performance was as follows (all values net of fees):
High Yield: 4.72
Legacy: 4.47
Overall Fund Performance: 4.72

2021 Total year Performance
2021 Performance ended with a smile on the faces of our investors as we recorded:
High Yield: 95.67 – it is not a typo error, we recorded over ninety-five performance returns!
Legacy: 49.64
Overall Fund Performance: 65.12

You can see the detailed performance by clicking here

December 2021 Webinar Summary
Congratulations to those who attended the webinar. We did a promotion for them that allowed some to take the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join the BVI Hedge Fund. We hope some more can join in 2022. The webinar also covered how you can join this Hedge Fund and why you should join. Here is the recorded video link.

In Other News…
The BVI Hedge Fund has taken off and the Nigerian Hedge Fund has closed.
Ellington 5Mastery Ltd Fund started operation on January 3rd, 2022, as a fully licensed and regulated Hedge Fund. We are glad to achieve this milestone.
Going forward, you will no longer hear about the Nigerian Fund as it no longer accepts investors. We will continue to grow and report on the BVI Fund
We wish you a good return on your investment in 2022.
Click here to Invest in this Fund
Click here to book a 1:1 to discuss with us

Ellington 5Mastery Team

Performance

We are happy to report our Fund Performance in November as follows:

To see the Fund Performance information click here

See www.5mastery.com for more information about our service.

New Milestone

We recorded the 16th month that our High Yield strategy has produced positive monthly results consecutively.

That brings me to the next question: How long do you need to see an automated system that uses Artificial intelligence with Machine Learning to trade currencies perform consistently before you are convinced it works, and you will join? Happy to let you readers know that as many as 7 new investors took the step to join us in November. To these happy customers, we welcome them and thank them for their trust in our system and our business. We also congratulate them. Why? As you will see later, they are the last set of investors that joined the Fund before it is closed to new Investors forever!

Nigeria Fund is now closed to New Investors!

We will no longer accept investors for the Nigeria Fund. The one we have been reporting to you since we started. It is the end of an era. The current investors will continue to enjoy the service and enjoy the trust and leap of faith they took but no new customers will be accepted.

Why? As we have explained many times, here are some of the reasons:

1. With an asset under management now about 3M USD, we have hit the limit allowed by Nigeria SEC for Funds before they are registered as public mutual funds. For the records, the maximum is 1Billion Naira. We are not a mutual fund since it will mean we will be serving everyone in the public. That is not our mission and hence we need to stop accepting investors to enable us to remain compliant.
2. Relating to reason 1 above, we cannot keep going as Nigeria has no regulatory framework for Hedge Funds. That is where we belong.

Our response is to move to a country that has the framework to protect our investors and us. Welcome to the British Virgin Islands.

As reported last month, we have secured a Regulatory license to operate in this country and that is where we now focus our efforts.

Ellington 5Mastery Ltd Opened bank A/C with BMO Harris Bank

We are happy to report that after a marathon of procedures and checks, BMO Harris bank has now accepted us as a client. This gives us access to a Canadian & US Bank for our Fund.

The opportunity for our investors is exciting. They have the regulatory and tax advantage of a BVI-based fund coupled with the financial stability and access to a bank in the USA – the world’s largest economy. For us, it is a testament to our drive for transparency, solid regulatory structure, and partnering with the best service providers in the industry. This takes our count to 3 big service providers behind us, namely: Deloitte as our auditors, NAV Consulting as our Fund Administrators, and now BMO Harris as our Bank and as our Fund Custodian and Bankers.

This is the bank Investors will send their deposits when they invest with Ellington 5Mastery. Here is their website: www.bmoharris.com

We are live on Bloomberg!

Our Fund, Ellington 5Mastery Ltd, the BVI regulated fund scored another milestone last month when it was admitted and registered with Bloomberg. Our BVI Fund has been successfully listed on Bloomberg. The ticker symbol is ELL5MST VI

What does this mean for us? Well, several things, some of them are:

1. It helps us to prove our validity to potential investors. So, if someone says, “is it a genuine company/Fund?” You can easily answer – Yes. They are even on Bloomberg. This is their Ticker Symbol.
2. We are beginning to play with the big boys. It means that you can access our fund’s performance in a Bloomberg Terminal and get the latest information such as fund structure, Fund Mgr, Asset Class, performance, etc.
3. We have passed another validation by another third party – Bloomberg. That is positive.

FAQs

1. Are we now ready to start a business in the BVI Fund? Answer = Yes. We already started.
2. Do we have any investors already invested in the fund? Answer = Yes. We have 2 that started in November 2021. Must are following up and rushing to fill their joining forms.
3. What are the requirements? Answer: Minimum investment of 100K USD
4. What if I don’t have 100K USD to start? Answer: You cannot invest with us. However, if you attend the next webinar, you will find out how others have been able to invest without having 100K. Come to the webinar and find out how.
5. Is the minimum investment likely to go up in the future? Yes. Once we reach 5M USD Asset under Management, it is likely to go up to 200K USD.
6. Is there a difference between how the current Nigeria Fund is managed compared to the BVI Fund? Answer = Yes. Nigeria is managed as individual accounts, BVI is managed as a pool of funds in line with the regulatory structure. For more differences – come to the next webinar.

Register for the Next Webinar

Topic: Why & How you can Invest in Ellington BVI Fund

Attend Morning Session – 9 AM Netherlands time
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Note: It is the same meeting ID and passcode for the two sessions: Meeting ID: 883 658 1722 Passcode: 253213

You can always Talk to Us
We are just one email away. You can email us to schedule an appointment to talk about your investment goals/challenges/raising your initial funds etc. We are always here to help. Our goal is to help the middle class grow SMALL Capital to BIG investment. This opportunity will not last for long.

Till Next Month

Ellington 5Mastery Team

What Are You Selling?

My family has just arrived back in the Netherlands after a 4-year assignment in Australia. One of the first things I looked for was a good laundry service.  I like my clothes to be well arranged. As you may also have guessed, Hedge Fund Managers are synonymous with suits however, not in the way lawyers are – we have some leeway on the flexibility of dressing. I found an excellent laundry service provider.

You can listen to the audio of this article with some animations here

The first service went very well – Alles goed (all good as we say in Dutch). Second service? Well, also excellent and uneventful. Third Service? “De prijs is een beetje hoger, meneer!”. You can use google translator for that. The attendant, whose English is as bad as my Dutch (so we were even), said, “The price is a little higher, sir!”. I asked why. She did not answer. Instead, she sought the help of another customer who came in to translate to me in Dutch. I told the good Samaritan that I understood her, but I also had the right to ask why the price had gone up. So, the Samaritan Translator asked her, “Why has the price gone up?” Her answer was, “everything is going up in price, so we have to increase our price.”

What are you selling? What can you increase in price when everyone is hiking their price? This week the Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey apologized to UK citizens when he granted an interview to the BBC saying that current inflation at 3.1% is projected to hit 5% next year. It is not too different in the Americas as the FED reported rising inflation in the USA. I heard someone say, “3.1%? I think my country is either 300% or we don’t even know the figure”. Whatever your country’s inflation rate, I still ask you what are you selling?

For many, what they are selling is their time received in the form of salary. Unfortunately, they cannot increase the price quickly like my laundry service provider. Neither is it as easy as we do in zoom – “please promote me to a Co-Host.” That would have allowed many to influence their salary increase more and set it to where it is comfortable. Since many cannot easily increase their salary and it is not granted if they asked or must go via a union to negotiate once a year or do a protest or resign or as many resorted to do – complain by the coffee machine – I ask you again, differently this time, “What are you going to sell to cope with the rising inflation?”

I have a proposal: Sell your salary in the form of investment and challenge your fund manager to make good returns. If you invest in a Fund like the Ellington 5Mastery Fund, a natural phenomenon increases “your price”; it is called compound interest. That is the best way to beat any inflation. Albert Einstein is reported to have called this the eighth wonder of the world – (I have no proof that this is from him, but he is often quoted to have said this. While it looks cool, I don’t think he said it because he is too smart to have said this. In my opinion, it should have been called the first wonder of the world, not the eighth!).

We can do this at Ellington 5Mastery because we have perfected a trading strategy after 21 years of research. It uses Artificial intelligence coupled with Machine learning to trade a few currency pairs. It is 99% automated. It does not sleep, it is fearless, it is disciplined, and you know what, it makes loads of money for our investors.

“If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work [for money] until you die.” — Warren Buffett

Below is the return table of our Customer No. 2 (he was the second customer who invested with us). Let us call him Joshua (not his real name, if you want his real name, contact us, we will give you including his email and phone number – that way, you can call to verify – that is a better way to validate.)

Month	Net profit	% return	Opening balance	Closing balance
2020/10	701.88	3.51	20,000.00	20,701.88*
2020/11	956.40	4.65	20,701.88	21,523.53
2020/12	968.33	4.5	21,523.53	22,473.74
2021/01	281.51	1.27	22,473.74	22,382.80
2021/02	1,160.80	4.15	22,382.80	43,543.60**
2021/03	4,110.82	9.48	43,543.60	47,381.01
2021/04	2,383.37	5.11	47,381.01	48,927.16
2021/05	5,275.58	10.78	48,927.16	54,202.74
2021/06	932.19	1.76	54,202.74	53,801.30
2021/07	7,242.65	13.56	53,801.30	60,659.35
2021/08	6,464.52	10.8	60,659.35	65,954.69
2021/09	4,773.49	7.39	65,954.69	69,152.77
2021/10	7,467.84	10.8	69,152.77	76,620.61

Investment Return Table
* started with 20K euros
** added 20K euros

Analysing this unedited return table (except for the Remarks column), we can see that in October 2020, Joshua invested 20K euros in our High Yield investment. By February 2021, after collecting his annual bonus, he doubled his investment by putting in additional 20K euros. In total, he invested 40K euros. At the end of October 2021, 13 months later, he has a net return of 74,175.50 euros (it is not 76,620.61 as shown in the table because our 20% performance fee in October had not been deducted – this was done on November 4th reducing his total to 74,175.50). That means in 13 months, he returned 74,175.50 minus 40,000, which equals a return of 34,175.50. In percentage terms, his gross return is below:

Total return: 131.89% Banked return: 131.89% Per day: 0.30% Per week: 1.52% Per month: 6.54%

For those who love to do the calculation manually, remember that he did not deposit all his money once; therefore, you need to factor that into your percentage return calculation.

Can you see how compound interest was put to work for Joshua – that is your best inflation antidote (I must add that you need to invest in a currency that the government will not arbitrarily devalue overnight too). Can you also see Joshua’s net profit now becoming a decent passive income? One secret is that this is just one of Joshua’s 3 accounts with us. He has achieved Financial Freedom in just 13 months – we set the goal of helping you achieve Financial Freedom within ten years; someone did it in 13 months!

What did Joshua sell? He sold his salary in the form of investment. He sold part of his annual bonus in form of investments. He sold part of his holiday in the form of investment. He sold the price and pressure to buy a Gucci bag until later. Finally, he sold the price of a few beers at the bar.

I now finally ask you: What are you selling? The market woman will increase the price of her onions; the petrol seller will increase his petrol price; the meat seller will raise his price. Who is buying all these things – YOU! They all display it waiting for you to bring your salary that hardly increase or that inflation has eaten a better part of to come to them. They smile at you and pretend to admire you, what they admire is your salary, and they keep taking it. Please, sell something!

We are here to help you sell something. Here is a starting point to start selling something. Register here to invest.

If you would rather discuss with us, you can schedule one on one with us at https://calendly.com/5mastery

If you want to know more about our investment, here is an excellent video link for you. Watch any or all the videos here.

With all you have now known, what are you going to sell?

Till Next Time.

Boyi Adegoju
Guest Writer for
Ellington 5Mastery Fund
www.5mastery.com
account@5mastery.com

Performance

We are happy to report our Fund Performance in October as follows:

High Yield: 10.00% (Net of fees = 8.00%)
Legacy (Low Risk): 6.20% (Net of fees = 4.96%)
Overall Portfolio: 8.70% (Net of fees = 6.96%)

To put it in perspective: if you had invested 100K at the beginning of September with us, you would have returned minimum gross return of 10,000 USD in our High Yield Strategy.

Let me ask you: How much was your salary in USD in October? Could it have made a difference if you have 100K in an investment like this?

New Milestone

We recorded the 15th month that our High Yield strategy has produced positive monthly results consecutively.

That brings me to the next question: How long do you need to see an automated system that uses Artificial intelligence with Machine Learning to trade currencies perform consistently before your a convinced it works, and you will join? Happy to let you readers know that as many as 4 new investors took the step to join us in October. To these happy customers, we welcome them and thank them for the trust in our system and our business.

We hope you will join us as soon as possible while the 50K USD minimum investment lasts. It will not last long as you will see in the next subheading below.

Our Fund secured License and Regulatory approval from BVI FSC

Congratulations to Ellington Management and Staff as the hard work has paid off. On October 19th, 2021, the Financial Services Common of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) approved Ellington 5Mastery Ltd as a Hedge Fund. This means we are now licensed to begin business in the BVI as a Hedge Fund providing this wonderful service worldwide.

To our current investors, we thank you for your patience. To our service providers, lawyers, accountants and fund administrators – we are grateful for your efforts.

Next and last milestone before we being operation is the opening of Bank Account for the new fund – that is at advanced stage. We expect this to be ready before end of November.

Therefore, this month is your last chance to join at the 50K minimum starting capital. Do not delay.

A well attended Public Webinar

Our October webinar with the title “50 Ways to raise 50K USD” was well attended. Many learned ways they can raise money. However, the most important concept out of that webinar was the formula for Financial Freedom. Participants learnt about this. It was well received, and many has asked us to publish it, so here it is in the next subheading.

We will not be running new webinars until we start operating in the BVI. This is to ensure we are providing consistent information based on new regulations.

Despite the above, you can always contact us via email for a one on one thirty-minute consultation.

 

The formula for Financial Freedom
Will you like to know the formula to achieve Financial Freedom? We will tell you. First, let us define the term.

In Ellington, we define Financial Freedom as a status where your passive income is equal to your salary or your monthly upkeep. To put this in perspective, if you invest with us and your monthly return from the investment equals your salary or equals your monthly upkeep, then you have achieved financial freedom.

Why do we say a salary or monthly upkeep? The reason is that some of them have a very low salary. If we make that as a basis of Financial Freedom, then it may well become a continuous rat race rather than freedom. Therefore, if you are not happy with your salary or your salary cannot adequately care for your basic needs, then replace that with how much you need to live comfortably in a month – this is what we call your monthly upkeep. What are some components of monthly upkeep? Attend our webinar to get those details – now you know what you may have been missing if you do not attend our webinar.

Now to the formula: In order to achieve this, you need an investment that is consistently generating profit such as ours. It should be dependable and numerically possible to estimate its average return. For us at Ellington, the average return we use for calculation is 3%. That is, you can expect our fund to return to you a net average of 3% per month.

Using an investment like ours, we can therefore calculate this as:

Financial Freedom Passive Income (FF) = Capital Invested (CI) X 3%

Suppose your salary/monthly upkeep is 3,000 USD. We can calculate the Capital you need to Invest to Achieve Financial Freedom as follows:

FF = CI X 3%

CI = FF/3%

CI = 3000/3%

CI = 3000/0.03 (3% is the same as 0.03)

CI = 100,000

If your monthly upkeep is 3,000 USD and you invest 100K in our Fund, it will ensure you achieve Financial Freedom.

You can always Talk to Us
We are just one email away. You can email us to schedule an appointment to talk about your investment goals/challenges/raising your initial funds etc. We are always here to help. Our goal is to help the middle class grow SMALL Capital to BIG investment. This opportunity will not last for long.

You can register with us to start investing here.

Till Next Month

Ellington 5Mastery Team

Performance

We are happy to report our Fund Performance in September as follows:

High Yield: 6.4% (net of fees = 5.12%)
Legacy (Low Risk): 3.9% (net of fees = 3.12%)
Overall Portfolio: 5.12% (net of fees = 4.16%)

To put it in perspective: if you had invested 100K at the beginning of September with us, you would have returned a minimum gross return of 6,400 USD in our High Yield Strategy. Many of our investors did better than this.

We hope you will join us as soon as possible while the 50K USD minimum investment lasts.

Please remember, you can always get the weekly performance update on the home page (first image on the page) of our website here.

Educating Ourselves: Hedge Fund 101
Start to get yourself familiar with how a proper Hedge Fund is structured and run. Watch this 6-minute YouTube video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX1eFeaTiYM

Are you trying to raise your 50K USD and struggling?

If you are interested in how to raise 50K USD, there are more than 50 ways to do it. It is mostly limited to your imagination. Come and attend the next potential Investors’ Webinar where we show you:

1. some ways others have raised their money and how you too can raise yours.
2. In the Webinar, we will also cover why our Investment is one of the fastest ways for you to get out of the rat race by 2022.

You can click to register for the events here at any of these times and dates:

Friday Oct 15^th, 2021 @22:00 NL(CET)/21:00 Nigeria Time/16:00 EST (USA)
Saturday Oct 16^th, 2021 @ 11:00 NL(CET)/10:00 Nigeria Time/5:00 EST (USA)
Sunday Oct 17^th, 2021 @22:00 NL(CET)/21:00 Nigeria Time/16:00 EST (USA)

Events Date: Friday Oct 15^th 2021, Saturday Oct 16^th 2021 AND Sunday Oct 17^th 2021

Time: 10 PM NL(CET) Time/9 PM Nigeria Time/4P EST USA/ – Oct 15 and 17^th

You can always Talk To Us
We are just one email away. You can email us to schedule a 121 appointment to talk about your investment goals/challenges/raising your initial funds etc. We are always here to help. Our goal is to help the middle class grow SMALL Capital to BIG investment. This opportunity will not last for long.

Till Next Month

Ellington 5Mastery Team

 

One Year Anniversary of Automation

In June we celebrated a 1-year milestone of re-opening this business to the public. As well as a 1 year of successful Automation trading. In this one year, our model investment vehicle – the High-Income Fund, generated 12 consecutive positive returns. In the 12 months under review, the model fund returned 83.5%. It averaged 5.9% monthly return.
Please note that Ellington’s total portfolio feared less than this result because we have some of our funds in lower risk levels. Having said this, the portfolio return of 65.1% annually is something we are grateful for.

Why is June’s return so low?
June’s return for the Model Fund was 1.5%. that is the lowest in 12 months. We have ultra-low volatility in the Market. The Market did not move! We can only take what the market gives us. We have no control over the market moves. We see this as a test of our system. We were disciplined and allowed the automated system to do its job. We did not try to force a trade by changing to manual or overly tweaking a working system. For those who started with us in June, please know that there are brighter months ahead. Also, any month that we return something positive, no matter how small, is a good month.

New Customers
We welcome some customers in June. We look forward to a good relationship with them. We are still welcoming customers, please feel free to let people know about this investment.

Clarity on Minimum Deposit
The minimum deposit remains 40K USD. It will go up to 100K in the future. Please note that due to regulatory reasons, we cannot accept less than 40K. The law allows us to only deal with qualified investors. Anything less than 40K will cause us a violation of the law.

Take care of Your Mental Health
Health is one of the pillars of the 5 elements of 5Mastery. You need good health to enjoy your money. Despite the pandemic, you should please pay attention to your mental health. Just try and find ways to laugh more and create more humor. It may be good to turn the TV off bad news and listen to Good News.
Thanks for entrusting your fund with us – we take it seriously.

Looking forward to a profitable July.

Team Ellington