Indicator Effectiveness Testing and System Creation

David Vomund, Chief Analyst, AIQ Systems

David Vomund is president of Vomund Investment Services, which publishes VIS Alert.com, whose market timing is rated by Timer Digest as one of the ten best for the ten-year period ending December 31, 2004. He will reveal the results of extensive indicator testing. The most effective and least effective indicators will be identified, and David will also demonstrate several effective mechanical equity trading models. Although this session is geared to equity traders with holding periods of about three days, longer-term mechanical systems will also be discussed.

Diverse Trading Strategies That Work

In this session Steve Hill, CEO of AIQ Systems will introduce four diversified trading strategies and show how you can use one or all of these systems as part of your investment portfolio. The four strategies have been designed and tested by leading analysts and money managers to enhance their own portfolios.

Covering long term trading time frames to short term trading and from stocks to exchange traded funds to group/sector rotation, these strategies have something for everyone. Each strategy will be discussed, including trading objectives.

The four strategies

Style Index Rotation Strategy by David Vomund                                
       
Instead of being locked into one trading style, it is best to employ a strategy that has the flexibility to rotate to the best performing market segment. That’s what our Style Index strategy is all about. The Style Index strategy trades securities that track various market indexes. These “style” indexes include large-cap growth, large-cap value, small-cap growth, small-cap value, and so forth.   

The MAPS System by Steve Palmquist                                      

Pullback systems have been popular for a long time and are based on the observation that trends tend to continue, and pullbacks in the trend offer a defined risk entry. Pullback systems based on up trends generally work best in a bullish market environment, and should usually be avoided in a bearish market. Pullback systems based on down trending stocks generally work best in bearish markets and should be avoided in bullish markets.

The Best of Times, Worst of Times by Jay Kaeppel                         

The strategy is designed to take advantage of industry group rotation employing both strong and weak group analysis. The Best of Times involves buying stocks from groups that are already moving up. The Worst of Times involves buying stocks from groups that have declined over a longer period of time, and are then set to reemerge as leading performers. 

The Efficient Stocks Strategy By Dr. Van K. Tharp                              

Efficient stocks are stocks that are moving up without a lot of volatility in a steady and consistent manner. The Strategy looks at the change in price over four different time periods and then divides that change in price by the average true range over the same periods. The average of the four different efficiencies gives you the best overall efficiency.