In this issue:
I. Commentary by Steve Ward, CEO
II. 2009 Readers’ Choice Awards
III. One way to stop this newsletter
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I. Commentary by Steve Ward, CEO
1. The IMPORTANT election. This is a very important election and the stakes could not be higher. With the world economies and capital markets in tailspins, consumers will be spending far less on artificial intelligence trading software (even though they SHOULD now be spending more). In order to keep bringing you the level of help from us you have become accustomed to, we need to keep the new buyers coming. That means NeuroShell Trader Professional needs to place first in Artificial Intelligence in the important election – the Reader’s Choice Awards of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities (TASC) magazine. Why? Because many of our new users choose us based upon that string of awards on our home page and the winners list in TASC.
New users help us continue to enhance NeuroShell as well as support it. Currently we are testing distributed processing (multi-core/cpu and multi-machine optimization), multi-timeframes in the same chart, and position management (incrementing and decrementing positions and algorithms for position sizing). Your purchase of NeuroShell a few years ago doesn’t help us keep these things going, but your vote today will if you are a subscriber of the magazine!
So do the folks at Ward Systems a favor for that FREE HELP they give you all year long, and do yourself a favor, too, by voting now before you forget. Only a small percentage of our users are subscribers, so you can see how important your vote is. The next article in this newsletter tells you how to vote.
2. Recession or depression? I am not an economist, so I am not going to publish my guess on whether the world is really in depression yet or not. It certainly feels like one coming though, doesn’t it? Worldwide, not just the USA. But I am going to tell you my ideas about how to survive whatever it is.
A few years back I started preaching in newsletters about how this wasn’t you father’s stock market. Even as the crash of 2000 finally ended in 2003, and the market started moving up again, stocks that your father or grandfather would have treasured were still losing money and getting hit badly in the new world economy. My grandfather may be looking down scratching his head about giants like GM, Ford, AT&T, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and many others. My point, then as now, was to suggest that steady, careful investing over time is not necessarily the way to happiness in your golden years, no matter what the advisors say. Unless you are as good as Warren Buffett, that is, but he’s been hit pretty hard too in this latest crash. It seemed like oil, gas, and energy were going to be sure bets in this century, but now even a mighty barrel of oil has lost half its value, at least for now.
The last decade or so has also seen all the jobs go to third world countries, leaving workers in the former “industrialized world” to either join the retail sector or get jobs in technology or “money moving”. Lately, the technology jobs are getting outsourced, and now the money movers are getting pink slips, too.
So what can you do? You can join the world of trading. Yes, it isn’t as easy as blindly following your advisor’s advice and it is not for everyone, but if you approach it right and have the right tools, you can prosper no matter what happens to the world markets.
For the tools part, you already have some of the best. However, many of you recipients of this newsletter are not using our trading tools, because you are using the AI Trilogy for non-trading models in science or business. You already have the experience in artificial intelligence, so why not take it to the next level and start leveraging your hard earned money by trading a portion of it with our trading tools? You already understand models and data, which are the keystones of successful trading.
Many more of you are already traders, but could you increase your income by having MORE of the best tools? Would you build a house with just one tool? Are you still trying to make money in today’s environment with some very old Ward Systems tools? Time to take a look at our add-ons and those of our partners:
http://www.neuroshell.com/addons.asp
Also, make sure you take a good look at our latest innovation, ChaosHunter:
www.chaosHunter.com
Mention this newsletter and we’ll give you 15% off of our add-ons and ChaosHunter if you purchase before US election day is over (November 4).
Once you have the right tools and start trading you will still need something else. Over and over we see our users throw away some very good models because they aren’t perfect. They may show some drawdown or not be the slam-dunk you think you should have. Seasoned traders don’t usually suffer from this illness, but most of the rest of us do, especially the most analytic among us. You need to have realistic expectations, both about how good the models will be, and about how long it will take you to learn to trade them effectively. Even the best boxers sometimes get hit, and the best surfers sometimes get wiped out. The best traders sometimes have to take a loss.
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II. 2009 Readers’ Choice Awards
Your vote counts and we don’t just mean in the US Presidential election. Ward Systems Group needs you to vote in the Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards.
Many prospective buyers rely on the TASC results for their buying decision and we’re asking you to help us out. Your vote is to your benefit as well because the more software we sell, the more we can continue to provide responsive technical support and add requested features. We both benefit.
Get your copy of the November Stocks & Commodities magazine and visit www.Traders.com. Look on the left side of the web site for the 2009 Readers’ Choice Awards and click on the Vote Now! link.
1. On the page that is displayed, enter your subscriber ID from your magazine address label (look at their example to see which numbers on the label are the subscriber ID). After you are logged in, look for the Artificial Intelligence Software (Expert, Neural) category. Be sure to mark your ballot for NeuroShell Trader Professional (Ward Systems Group Inc.)
2. Do the same for the Standalone Analytical Software, $1000 and more category. Look for NeuroShell Trader Professional.
Be sure to vote before December 31, 2008. Please do it now so you won’t forget later.
The winners will be announced in the February 2009 Stocks & Commodities Bonus Issue and at the Traders’ Expo in New York in February.
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III. One way to stop this newsletter
It is really easy. Just change your email address and don’t tell us.
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