Zeus Equity Signals now available - 80%-90% winning equity picks for over 3 years

Hi everyone, Zeus Equity Signals is now online and has been the product of nearly 5 years of programming work on my part. In a sea of get-rich-quick stock picking hype, I have taken a different approach which has been consistently growing my portfolio for over 3 years through small, easily achievable profit targets. I believe in taking consistent small targets over and over, rather than trying to hit the "jackpot" each time. Taking small, consistent profits truly builds wealth in a realistic way over time.

I personally own a server room with 160 CPUs of computing power. As a programmer I knew there had to be a way to harness that incredible power to screen the markets really effectively and deeply. I developed my own software and proprietary screening system to download the data for 9,000 stocks, 15,000 mutual funds and 500 major indexes, and then use almost every known technical analysis indicator to search through each one to find confluence of overlapping daily and weekly buy or sell signals. Each one has to have confluence in at LEAST 7 different technical indicators. Then, those that qualify are scored according to a proprietary scoring system I developed based on momentum and fundamental indications. Those that have the highest score are the highest probability stocks to hit target within a week.

I call my network ZEUS, after the god of gods, because of it's incredible power to screen the market across 160 CPUs.

I've been trading signals on this system for 3 years and the statistics are exciting and verifiable. Of all of the signals being generated on my ZEUS network, 80%-90% are winning picks that hit my 1st target. Of those winning picks, average time to target is less than 7 days with average heat per trade being about 3% risk.

I have limited the participation in this program to only 100 people to keep it small and manageable.

If you are looking for truly high probability stock signals, mutual fund and index screening, my ZEUS network is actually the real deal. You can find us at:

www.zeusequitysignals.com

Fascinated with Forex liquidity

I have been busy working on my systems for trading the forex market and I have to say that I am completely impressed with how liquid this market is. It is the largest market in the world with so much money being traded that it cannot be manipulated or cornered by any one, or numerous, entities... it's just simply too big. I really like this aspect of it but what I am really finding that I enjoy about it is the speed with which my orders are filled on both sides. It is faster than anything I have experienced before. I simply don't experience any slippage like I used to with futures, although futures are still enjoyable to trade. But forex is FAST, I mean really fast. I have been having success with a couple of systems that I have written reviews about which can be found on my forex review site at: ForexDayTradingWorld.info.

I highly recommend that everybody give forex a serious look as a trading vehicle.

Interested in other trading ideas for Index Futures?

I always try to keep an open mind about new information, or old information that I haven't learned yet regarding Index futures trading techniques. I found a website which offers solid reviews and evaluations of some of the most popular trading systems specifically for Index futures. One of their systems I'm actually starting to use in my own part time trading and it has so been producing better results than other systems that are based on indicators such as CCI. It's definitely worth a look at. Combine any system with TradeLogger's free easy to use equity curve money management system and you now have an edge for your account.

Trading Index Futures

Forex - OK I finally tried getting into forex

My trading has been quite limited in the last year or so due to my focus on my animation company and my time spent going back to college. But due to the fact that the forex markets are open all the time, somewhere, I decided to devote a little bit of time with a new system that I have, combined of course with usage of TradeLogger to help me mitigate losses. As a programmer I am a big fan of automated trading for a variety of reasons. One, auto trading operates with consistency, humans do not. Auto trading systems also run without emotion, either greed or fear. Humans obviously do not and that in itself interferes with consistency. An autotrader can take a loss and then enter the next proper trade without fear or hesitation. It can likewise take a profit without letting greed get in the way and keep you in a trade longer than you should and increasing or chances of having a winning trade turn into a loser.

I am currently utilizing several trading robots that each work on different forex market conditions. The complete system is a combination of several trading strategies: trend following, breakout trading, scalping trading and grid trading. It’s continuously updated from outside servers, and it produces consistent profit no matter what the market conditions are like. They may not always be huge profits, but I'd rather take consistent smaller profits than sporadic big profits with many losses in between. The nice thing about this system is that it is totally 100% automated. No more thinking required, and we all know that in trading, thinking can definitely get in the way. It's about reacting not thinking.

I recommend this system to anyone looking to increase their consistency in forex markets. To find out more about the system I use check out:

FOREXBLING - The Jewel of Automated Forex Trading

You'll be glad you did.

Follow me on my new blog about my career change

Hello everyone, it's been a while since I have posted here. Mainly because I've been busy with a variety of software projects and other things that don't have anything to do with trading.

I have decided to go back to school to get a degree in either medical imaging (radiography) or my bachelor's in nursing. Both of which are highly competitive degrees to gain acceptance but I'm determined to give it my best shot.

Anyway, I'm posting regularly about my career change and all the steps that I am going through. I figured it would be interesting to follow to many people my age who are thinking about doing something totally different and going back to school for it.

I invite you follow me at My Career Do Over.

Tough 2 weeks, but out of the hospital

Hi everyone, it's been a tough 2 weeks but I am so pleased to report that I am out of pain and back home and feeling almost normal again. I had a severe attack of pancreatitis due to gall stones. It hit me like brick 2 weeks ago and dropped me to the floor...ouch. Within a few days I was in surgery to remove the gall bladder and get rid of those stones. The whole ordeal shaved off about 8 or 9 pounds from me and left me really weak. Fortunately I had a great doctor and team over at Providence Portland hospital. I received fantastic care and I can't praise their work enough.

Thank you to all my friends who sent cards and good wishes. I'm still a bit tired, but I'm almost normal again. I just can't wait until I get back out and resume my jogging, but the doctor said to wait 3-4 weeks.

Thanks again everyone and good trading to you!

The best trading system in the world

The Best Trading System In The World: That's what I was told when I first came through the doors at Woodies CCI Club. Of course everyone says they have the best trading system in the world but mostly those are people who are selling it too. Funny for obvious reasons. No, Woodies system wasn't being sold per se, just how you needed to use it and what broker you needed to trade it with is all. Which is fine with me I guess, promotion is promotion and business is business and if you can market your brokerage in the guise of a free trading system, then that's their prerogative. That's not what I wanted to mention however. I was going to talk about the Best Trading System In The World (spoken with stadium-sized echo).

When I started trading WCCI a couple years ago one of the big things that was taught was keeping statistics about the markets you trade. How far they move in your favor based upon your patterns, how much on average they move against you before it's a winning trade. This is in fact a wise thing. It's never a bad idea to keep your finger on the pulse of the market, the ones that you trade, to always know how its heart is beating. Combined with money management (that's code for making sure your losses are smaller than your wins), statistics will give you some idea of what to expect and give you an edge, and in trading you don't need much of an edge as long as your wins are bigger than your losses. The problem with the WCCI system is it teaches you to keep your losses bigger than your wins, always. 15 tic stop loss and 10 tic targets on the ER, 25 tic stops and 10 tic target on the YM and so on. No matter how long you trade that way, even if you can win 75% of the time, you're equity curve is going to be heading south. Yet people still trade it believing that the "runner" contract will be the holy grail and make up all the difference when you hit the big 100 tic run occasionally.

As a bit of a math head I'm here to tell you that I have traded it that way, I have written programs to crunch the numbers and I have analyzed it from every angle. The reality is, the big runners AT BEST will get you back close to break even at the end of the month because all along you've been taking larger losses then your wins over and over and over. But here is the true story, the most interesting bit of information:

When I was trading in WCCI, once or twice a month we'd do a little game to demonstrate how effective money management in trading can really help you. He called it the Coin Flip. It was a trading method based on a complete random flip of the coin, but employed money management. At the flip of a coin, we would go long or short into the market (usually the Russell), and not exit our trade until we got stopped out or reached our target. No runners, all in/all out. Our stop was 10 tics, our targets were 20 tics or sometimes more. Once we were out of the market, we'd flip the coin again and re-enter long or short based upon heads or tails. We'd be in the market all the time and then evaluate how well we did by simply keeping our losses to half the size of our wins. We rarely had a losing day, seriously.

Since those days I've written a simulator that does the same thing with various markets. Just a random flip of the coin to enter the market, keep your losses to half of your wins and keep trading. Here's the reality, the Coin Flip system hands down beats WCCI as a trading system, consistently out-winning all the fancy signals with the Sidewinder, Chop Zone Indicator and so on. It's funny because when we would do the Coin Flip in the room and always do well, people would comment "why don't we just trade the coin flip with money management?" and our leader would usually laugh or growl about how absurd that would be, that this is just a demonstration. It demonstrated something all right, that no matter how good your system supposedly is, if you have it in your system to take 15-25 tic losses and only take 10 tic targets, you are going to LOSE in the long run. If you have a crappy or mediocre system and take losses that are half the size of your targets, you are going to do fair to well. These days WCCI doesn't perform the coin flip in the room anymore...I wonder why? Because it clearly shows that it does better in the market than all the fancy WCCI panels and code and surely it became clear that it was embarrassing as a comparison to His own system. It was a good demonstration though and at least got people to think in the most simplest of ways.

So, if you want the secret to the Best Trading System In the World, just look no farther than the coin flip with a 2:1 or 3:1 money management ratio. You can't get any simpler than that and if you don't believe me, paper trade it for a week and you'll soon see the reality.

Some benefits to our high gas prices

As I feel the pinch at the pump as everybody, I've wondered over the last year what benefits, if any, could come from higher gas prices. For years I always thought that the technology surrounding our standard combustion engine vehicles was stagnant. More effort was being put into marketing vehicles with iPod adapters than new fuel efficiencies it seemed. But since high gas prices are here and is creating an enormous ripple effect through our economy, all of a sudden, car manufacturers can't come out with new technologies fast enough. You have Honda now introducing a test vehicle in southern California that is a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle with zero emissions and runs on hydrogen which is the most plentiful fuel source in the universe.

At some point in the future, gasoline will be extinct. Will vehicles disappear too? No, vehicle manufacturers will miraculously roll out vehicles that work just as well if not better on many other sources of fuel. Of course they could have been rolling them out years ago but the need just wasn't there as it is today. Personally, I'm delighted to see the new alternative fuel based vehicles being pressured to emerge and as long as gas prices remain high and going higher, there's no doubt we'll see more of these vehicles appear with greater frequency. Necessity is the mother of invention and works well in lighting a fire under the butts of those that need a kick start. I just hope, that the manufacturers make these vehicles affordable enough to be feasible to switch over. Right now hybrid vehicles are the rage for people to buy, but they still don't make financial sense until gas prices reach $10/gallon. The average person is not making a hybrid pay for itself just yet by in large. But as we make our way to $10 gas, I'm sure the auto makers will give us even more creative options for pushing the wheels faster than ever.

Here's an interesting link I found about converting your car to burn water & gasoline...click here.

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Housing marketing continues to slide southward

Well, a matter that is definitely on the forefront of most people's minds is the housing market. Along with part time trading of futures and running my 3D animation business, my wife and I have been involved in flipping homes the past few years. Fortunately we sold our last property just before the credit crunch hit and we have been on the sidelines just watching the market for signs of an upturn. We'll continue to watch.