time commitment: bare minimum, check your fund once a week, and spend one hour per week trading. its different for all managers, but i did pretty well checking in every day, spending about 5 hours per week. It is probably going to take at least 6 months, more likely a year to get your fund to the $100 mark, can you last that long?
ability: if you are familiar with all the game aspects (shorting, derivatives, starbonds, news, etc) then go for it. Youve made a lot of money in 3 months which is good, but it took me a lot longer than 3 months before I was ready to manage, but its up to you.
fund idea: make sure it has a point, like a reason for being. you can use the search to see all the past funds. look through those to see if your idea has already been used. and once you send it in, you may not hear from hsx for a long time, or maybe ever, or maybe real quick. you never know.
the main thing is, players buy funds to make money and if the fund doesnt make any, then thats not real fun for us. so make sure you want to put in the time. and if you dont, you can always tell hsx to give your fund to someone else.
good luck
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