Providing individual investors and traders with the edge
Let's look at recent statistics from September 1999 to September 2009 stock market as measured by S&P 500
lost 20% of its value!
That means that if you invested in the stock market back in 1999 you are still waiting to get to break-even and
this is even before accounting for inflation! Even in this scenario you had to hold stocks through all volatility
during NASDAQ bubble in 2000
and recent Housing bubble
which many investors were not able to withstand and sold stocks
at exactly wrong time. That means that buy & hold investor approach that so many people have been using simply is not working.
Harsh reality is the next decade is not looking much better either with all government run deficits and bailouts of
big banks and financial institutions.
This was and continues to be very difficult environment for long term investors. And yet traders were able to make consistent
profits during this same period. Traders do not need the market to go higher the way buy & hold investor does.
In fact those people who actually trading the market instead of investing in it are finding out how flexible shorter term approach can be.
There are multiple ways to profit even during big declines.
But what if you don't know anything about how to pick right stocks and only bought and sold stocks based on just some rumors
that you've heard. This is where our Stock Trading Systems can help you.
Our
trading systems scan thousands of stocks each day to find the best picks.
All stocks are selected from a list of largest US and international corporations.
All our
trading systems are tested on thousands of stocks using decades of historical data.
We monitor each stock in our porftolio for the right sell time to maximize profits.
Each
trading system holds at least 20 different stocks to reduce risk associated with individual stocks
through diversification.
Active Trading Systems
LM900.157377
This system trades stocks listed in S&P 900 (large and mid capitalization companies). The system maintains somewhat concentrated portfolio of 20 stocks with average of 19 trades/week. Even though it is long only system with high correlation to market movements the system did recover from recent market declines at the end of 2008 and start of 2009 but it experienced high volatility during that time.
LSM900.241554
This system trades stocks listed in S&P 900 (large and mid capitalization companies). The system maintains diversified portfolio of 50 stocks with average of 40 trades/week. Recent market declines had less impact on it because this is long/short system.
LSM900.123836
This system trades stocks listed in S&P 900 (large and mid capitalization companies). The system maintains somewhat concentrated portfolio of 20 stocks with average of just 10 trades/week. Even though it is long/short system it did experience high volatility at the end of 2008 and start of 2009 because of small portfolio size.
LSM900.349564
This system trades stocks listed in S&P 900 (large and mid capitalization companies). The system maintains portfolio of 22 stocks with average of just 20 trades/week. Unlike other trading systems it did not experience high volatility at the end of 2008 and start of 2009 because of good balance of short and long positions and maintained quite low maximum drawdown of 28%. This is currently our favorite system which we use in our own trading.
LSM500.248544
This system trades stocks listed in S&P 500. It maintains portfolio of 20 stocks with average of 20 trades/week. Majority of these trades are long and just 5% are short which means that it is going to have high correlation to stock market movements. Because system is limited to S&P 500 stocks its returns are lower than other systems which can select stocks from broader sets but on the other hand it provides more safety because it only trades large publicly held companies like ExxonMobil, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Apple etc.
LSM900.221443
This system manages a portfolio of 20 stocks selected from broad market list representing the large-cap and mid-cap of the U.S. equity market (S&P 900). It executes 18 trades/week on average with 75% of these trades being long and 25% short with small margin. Maximum expected drawdown is 30% for period of six month.
LS900.398003
This system manages a portfolio of 20 stocks selected from broad market list representing the large-cap and mid-cap of the U.S. equity market (S&P 900). It executes about 20 trades/week on average with 90% of these trades being long and just 10% short without using margin borrowing. Maximum expected drawdown is 25% for period of six month.
LS900.1166926
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