Jim Dean Elite   Posts: 1059 Joined: 10/11/2012 Location: L'ville, GA  User Profile | I truly sympathize with the "pain factor" of the investment cost for trading software. Like many of you, over the years I've bought then later put aside thousands of dollars of software, in the search to find a more effective, balanced, powerful toolkit. And, a company that I can comfortably put my trust in. That is why I've homed in on Nirvana. If you look thru the thousands of posts I've done on the various forums, you'll see that it's rare for me to "promote" particular Nirvana products - mainly because the needs and goals and resources of each person are different. Nirvana is a very CREATIVE company - as a result there is a huge selection of things to choose from. I try to limit my recommendations to options that I think are likely to be highly valuable to many types of people. I've consistently promoted OT Pro, for instance, since it opens up unlimited worlds for customization of Indicators, Systems and Stops - enhancing OT across the board - and leveraging almost all of the plugins by opening the door to incorporating their specialized function-calls (indicators) into your own way of doing things. I've also promoted Strategy Wizard as the most valuable plugin, since it saves huge amounts of time by automating experiments, and it too "leverages" other canned and custom strategies by allowing you to tune them. Through that process, you discover hidden interactions - ones to avoid and ones to focus on. I've occasionally promoted a few of the other "method" plugins like Seasonality and GroupTrader, but they're in a third tier compared to Pro and SW. I say all that to say this: I've come to believe that OmniVest's value falls into the "great for almost everyone" category - equally to the value of OT, Pro, SW, Seas, and GT combined. It's a different beastie - addressing the BIG picture of money management and risk control and portfolio management re diversity and hedging and market conditions and group rotation. Taken together, those capabilities are more important, even to a "details" guy like me, than my personal intellectual hesitancy using "graybox" systems. OmniVest is still growing - but it's past the "toddler" stage now and really coming into its own over the next several weeks and months. It will IMHO "put Nirvana on the map" in ways that OT and VT could never accomplish. It holds the key to appealing to hundreds of thousands of people (if they wake up to smell the roses). That is why I'm taking the time to encourage y'all to get into it now. The cost of doing so will definitely rise over time - and the door of opportunity to get lifetime access and unlimited strategies will close as it's popularity grows. So I hope y'all will forgive me for "bubbling on" about OmniVest. It's cost is nontrivial, but definitely worth every penny. I've come to think of OT as the laboratory, and OV as the bank. [Edited by Jim Dean on 3/25/2014 9:11 AM] | |
