A trading system or investment system is a set of rules--the shorter and simpler, the better--to buy and sell a security at a profit with least risk.

Sounds easy. What to buy? When to buy it? When to sell? Those are the only questions that matter. Your knowledge, skill, experience, hope, and other emotions determine the answers. The answers are your 'system'. There are as many systems as there are traders and investors in the world.

Most rely on tips. Most of the rest use someone else's system. It's easier. You delegate the crucial future of your wealth to a well-meaning friend, company, or stranger. What a decision!

You ask how they make their decisions. Their answers are their systems. According to your understanding, your level of confidence in what you are being told, and how easy and efficient you judge the relationship will be, plus how much it will cost determine whom you decide to hire.

SYSTEMS ON THIS SITE

This site is a systems machine. It produces different models of systems. If you are reading this, then you have judged the site favorably enough to spend some of your time here, maybe even paying for some of it.

Since systems are our business, in addition to offering a handful of paid subscriptions, we continually generate new ideas on ways to use all the data on the site which underlie our current, formal, published systems.

The rules that govern these systems have been scrupulously backtested and 'proven' worthy of consideration for use. 'Proven' means that there is the suggestion of probability that your future for wealth may be favorable under their use.

CONTINUOUS SERIES

Since our search for better systems is continuous, we see no reason not to share with you ideas we generate. These appear in a biweekly series, notice of which is sent to general subscribers when each idea is posted.

There is a giant difference between the systems-ideas series and the paid, formal systems on the site. The latter have been tested and validated. The former have not. These you can use or research further on your own. In any event, their use, until verified, should be cautious.

GOAL

Tasks have goals. Our goal for any system under development with us is that it produce 40 to 50% returns annually (we have not achieved that yet)--with limited maximum drawdown--say, 20%, and a Copernicus Factor of 20 to 30 over five years.

TESTING AND RESULTS

We discuss this topic more thoroughly, perhaps tediously, in another place. You may want to take a look since it is the very ground upon which validation and potential use rests. See Results.