Ed Downs Elite    Posts: 645 Joined: 2/7/2007 Location: Austin, Texas  User Profile | It's true - the market was up a lot, but of course, nobody knew that was going to happen in advance. My return was similar to yours, though some users were up in the 30% zone. I'd like to say something about how last year's market gave rise to the new enhancements that were just added to the platform in V2, and are being added now. We had some periods of fairly long trends last year - up and down - more than 14 days each. Reversion to Mean Strategies (which is what all the "R" strategies are), work best in choppy markets that move up and down to provide reversion opportunities. In strong trends, Reversion Strategies will buy in downtrends and sell in an uptrends. I know everyone saw this happening, as did I. This is why we added Market Filters, new types of Strategies to V2, and now are adding Dynamic Lists. However, since the Strategies are so different (Darvas, iTLB, and so on) configuring portfolios will take a little more thought. This is why the current survey has so many requests for automation. We will continue to work the problem to provide the most robust fund management solution possible. This year, I expect that users who use the product to its fullest potential with the new features and the ones we are now adding will do well. ----- DiamondJag - the new Strategies should work much better on a small account ($5,000) because they stay in trade longer. I like the Intrinsic Trend and iTLB Strategies for this purpose. | |
