big dog day trader

Posted by Jack Cahn on Nov 28, 2011 in Big Dog | 4 comments

As a trader when you got it, you got it, when you don’t you’re out of the busi­ness. So if think your a big wheel, get a leg up, run with the Big Dog.

In the 1990’s the basics of Big Dog trader was white labelled to a guy who wanted to break into the future’s trad­ing busi­ness. Under the typ­i­cal white label is a con­fi­den­tial­ity agree­ment where both par­ties agree not to dis­close the rela­tion­ship. In return he got the sys­tems and I in turn revived roy­al­ties. From every­thing I can see he is no longer in the busi­ness. But no mat­ter, no names will be men­tioned here, just the fact that he was head pro­gram­mer for a lead­ing online home mort­gage lender, he felt he could con­vert his pro­gram­ming tal­ents into trad­ing tal­ent.  So he went out and pur­chased all the top name sys­tems under a white labelled, renamed them as if they were his – and they were by agree­ment – and he failed!

eclisped day trader | breakout

Posted by Jack Cahn on Sep 25, 2011 in Eclipsed, TraderAssist® | Comments Off

In the begin­ning there was the sim­ple open­ing range break­out sys­tems and the daily true range break­out day traders. Dur­ing the 1980’s they proved to most traders that given a wide enough daily ranges equat­ing into large dol­lar sums, that the sim­ple break out pat­terns could proved prof­itable. Great Traders from Larry Williams to Ralph Vince used them. No need to for fancy or com­plex ideas to make a profit. The sim­pler the idea the less that could go wrong. Today, the break­out sys­tem is a new bread of cat were we have learned how key in on those mar­kets that are con­ducive to break out trad­ing. No more need to take rules that were applied to the first gen­er­a­tion of trend fol­low­ing trad­ing sys­tems and apply them to the faster pace type of trading.

One of our break­out “algo” traders is “Eclipsed-DT Phase II”. It shows that break­out trad­ing — after 20 years of expe­ri­ence — remains one of the bet­ter styles to choose from when day trad­ing the high fly­ing com­mod­ity mar­kets of today. We keep real time tabs on it. Since release some returns are almost too good to be true, for a sim­ple day trader’s algorithm.

wolverine trading strategy

Posted by Jack Cahn on Aug 16, 2011 in Algorithmic Strategies | Comments Off

Wolver­ine is a robust swing trader with an aver­age hold­ing period is 4 to 5 days. It is based on sim­ple idea of the ini­tial momen­tum serge pre­ced­ing the price move. It enters long or short trades with the expec­ta­tions of cap­tur­ing a profit over sev­eral days. Wolver­ine is not always in the mar­ket like some other strate­gies that cope with risk all the time via a “stop and reverse tac­tic in order not to miss the next big move. Wolver­ine picks it entries selectively.

Our stud­ies show Wolver­ine is pro­duc­ing a reg­u­lar profit with typ­i­cally no more than 30 trades per year. This strat­egy was pro­duced by CBI over ten years ago under a dif­fer­ent name. Today we have made it faster and more sen­si­tive to shifts in momen­tum. Our pro­gram and test­ing team has improved the for­mu­las to sus­tain prof­itabil­ity for the upcom­ing years.

The TradeStation9® and NinjaTrader7® ver­sion fea­tures are plug and play with a user doc­u­ment. Trader/Developer sup­port is avail­able via our blog. We offer a tuto­r­ial on the meth­ods behind our para­me­ters set. How­ever, Wolver­ine is a set-and-forget strat­egy; it is unchal­lenged for the last 5 years in this type of trad­ing style and today is renewed for many years to come.