I thought it would be easy or easier as well. I started trading for myself years ago and figured if I could build a decent track record it would attract capital. Ended up putting my own fund together but the costs to audit, compliance etc just became too much to justify it. For fun I stuck one of my strategies (Futures Growth Fund) on collective2 but even with one of the best track records there it doesn't attract much capital. I even posted best returns in the BattleFin 4.0 Pro tourney but the capital sponsor backed out saying they now wanted a fully automatic strategy which is very costly to do. Unfortunately, its not as easy to raise capital as you would hope.