Navigator Managed Futures Trading Program Summary

In addition to offering highly rated commodity trading systems and software, longtermtrading.com also manages commodity futures accounts under its Navigator Managed Futures Trading Program. The following summary describes the program and trading methodology and Advisor, the program risks, and performance results from a real, time proprietary trading account using the systems utilized by the Navigator program.

FUTURES TRADING IS SPECULATIVE AND INVOLVES A HIGH DEGREE OF RISK. IT IS SUITABLE ONLY FOR PERSONS WHO CAN AFFORD TO LOSE THEIR ENTIRE INVESTMENT. PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS MUST REVIEW THE ENTIRE PROGRAM DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT BEFORE INVESTING.

DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES OF THE TRADING PROGRAM – longtermtrading.com offers the Navigator Managed Futures Trading Program as an alternative investment vehicle designed to be highly non-correlated with stock and equity investments. The Navigator Program trades a diversified mix of energy, metal, grain, meat, tropical, currency, and interest rate futures on US exchanges. It does not trade stocks, stock options, or single-stock or stock index futures.

ABOUT THE ADVISOR – longtermtrading.com, the Advisor to the Program, is registered as a Commodity Trading Advisor (“CTA”) by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is a member of the National Futures Association. Since 2001, longtermtrading.com has developed and sold a number of highly regarded and publicly-rated mechanical commodity futures trading systems as discussed elsewhere in this web site. The trading systems used to guide investment decisions made by the Advisor to trade Clients’ accounts in the Navigator program, however, were more recently developed and are proprietary and used exclusively for managing futures investments. They are otherwise not available for acquisition from longtermtrading.com or elsewhere.  

Mr. Alan Pryor is the sole principal of longtermtrading.com and the developer of the trading systems sold by longtermtrading.com and the more recently developed futures trading systems used to guide investment decisions in this program. Prior to longtermtrading.com, Mr. Pryor held a variety of executive and technical positions with emerging alternative energy and environmental-related companies over the course of over two decades. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A., Biology and B.A., Chemistry, 1975, cum laude) and the University of California, Berkeley (M.S., Environmental Health Sciences - Industrial Hygiene Engineering, 1978).

THE TRADING SYSTEMS AND RISK CONTROL - Two distinct and unique proprietary trading systems developed by the Advisor serve as the basis for the trading program – a short term system with an average trade length of about 1.5 days and a long term trading system with an average trade length of from 9-10 weeks. The two systems operate using quite different time frames and different technical indicators and are designed to provide greater diversification and help partially protect portfolio value in the event one system or the other performs less than average over a period of time. The Systems are completely mechanical and rely upon the application of patterns of historical price fluctuations. 

Initial risk management is of the utmost importance and is reviewed and calculated before any new positions are initiated. The Advisor’s money management approach involves moderately aggressive trading. However, not more than approximately 2.5% of the Account’s total equity will generally be initially risked on any one trade generated. However, the program will generally trade at least a minimum of one contract on each trade regardless of the calculated initial risk percentage per contract provided that not more than 7.5% of the account’s total equity capital will be initially risked at any one time through new trade exposure in any one commodity sector. Trades with risk greater than that specified will not be taken.

PROPRIETARY ACCOUNT RATES OF RETURN

Note: Past Performance is not Necessarily Indicative of Future Results.



Note: Past Performance is not Necessarily Indicative of Future Results.

Note: Past Performance is not Necessarily Indicative of Future Results.

MARKETS TRADED - Initially, the Advisor will trade a diverse portfolio of 30 domestic US commodity futures:

FUTURES TRADING IS SPECULATIVE AND INVOLVES A HIGH DEGREE OF RISK. IT IS SUITABLE ONLY FOR PERSONS WHO CAN AFFORD TO LOSE THEIR ENTIRE INVESTMENT. PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS MUST REVIEW THE ENTIRE PROGRAM DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT BEFORE INVESTING.

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