Trading System Descriptions & Track Records
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Trading Systems and Track Records
longtermtrading.com offers 6 unique and profitable long-term commodity trading systems - WaveRiderTM, Ready-Set-GoTM, AnomalyTM 1 and 2, CountDownTM, and CoatTailsTM. Each of the systems come with TradeStation Easy Language or stand-alone Windows software and have the following features in common:
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Trades
Long-Term with Weekly Data
Utilizes Simple and Time-Proven Market Concepts
Rigorous
Backtesting and Full Disclosure
100%
Mechanical & Completely Nonoptimized Parameters
Tested
on Standardized Portfolios
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All of our systems are designed to be traded with weekly data with no changes in parameter settings. Trade lengths vary from a week (if you are quickly stopped out) up to several years depending on the system. Only the high, low, and close of the entire week's price activity for each commodity is needed to generate the next week's trading signals. Imagine having every night free to do what you want and only spending a few hours every weekend to completely update your TradeStation charts and generate new trading signals for the next week. What are you going to do with all your time??
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Each of the systems has a single entry, a single trailing stop, and a money management stop. They utilize time-proven market concepts that are straightforward and easily understood. We do not subscribe to the "more-is-better" philosophy currently in vogue in trading circles and certainly promoted by the brokerage industry. More indicators, shorter time-frames, and more trades almost always result in more confusion and mistakes and are the quickest way to separate a trader from their money. You have only to look at the intraday trading carnage on the NASDAQ for confirmation.
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All of our systems are backtested on over 550 years of market data with a standardized market portfolio and this information is fully presented in our track records for your viewing. We do not allude to market riches that cannot be substantiated by rigorous and complete backtesting. We don't even want those poor customers that are forever seeking the newest Holy Grail. We cater solely to the technically sophisticated customer that demands full and honest disclosure of a system's historical performance in an straightforward, objective manner. We also fully disclose all system trading rules and parameters - no black boxes here.
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All of our systems use the exact same parameters for every single commodity in our standardized system test portfolio - even the money management stop! That means that you use the same exact rules for corn that you use for coffee, Japanese yen, T-bonds, or Lean Hogs. Admittedly, we could have made our superior track record look absolutely unbelievable by playing optimization games but these do a grave disservice to the investing public. We firmly believe that if a system cannot profit handily in all markets over extended time periods without any optimization then it shouldn't even be offered to the public…period.
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We don't cherry pick the markets to find the commodities with the best historical track records to show our systems in the best light. Every single system we develop is tested on the exact same stringently selected set of commodities. Within each of the 8 main groups of commodities, the 3 largest commodities in terms of daily contract volume are selected providing that they have an average daily trailing volume of at least 5,000 contracts per day and have traded for at least 10 years. This is designed to represent a real world, tradable portfolio with broad diversification in only the most liquid markets. We make no exceptions to this rule. We will never share results of testing on highly illiquid and untradable markets to entice an unsuspecting customer base - no rough rice, no platinum, no T-bills, or any of the myriad of other minor commodities trading with volumes of only a few hundred contracts a day.
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We are the only vendor that guarantees that all of our systems are 100% mechanical and backtested with a standardized testing portfolio without any optimization. Every one of our systems is less than $1,000 and we throw in two very valuable money management tools with each as a bonus. With our economically priced products and bonus money management tools, we offer exceptional value to any investor determined to get back on the road to profitability. Compare our prices and our features with any other system vendor on the market - then think what you can do with the $500 - $5,000 you'll save on the system purchase, the countless thousands of extra dollars you'll make in the markets, and the extra several hundred hours each year you'll save in market analysis time.
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