Thank you for signing up for the beta program - we are really really excited that you are joining us in this endeavor.  With your help, we can create a service that helps many users exploit small edges in the market - the same small edges that allow many professional traders to earn a living. 

But, before we move on, we would like to scare you a bit.  Edges in the markets are small and, sometimes, fleeting.  Capturing these edges to earn a living is very very hard work. You are, after-all, competing with some of the brightest minds in the entire world. We hope to help our customers navigate their way but we do not want to instill false hopes that we have some kind of magic bullet or "secret" that no one else has. A lot of the key to success in trading is just plain hard work, keeping it simple and making fewer mistakes than most others.

Having said that, we can move on.  In order to get started, here are some basic housekeeping things you need to know:

Your Login
Many of you signed up for the beta program without registering a separate account on our website.  This means that you were assigned a random password which you, in all likelihood, do not know at this time.  In order to get your password, please go to the LOGIN page, enter your email address in the first box and select the "Password Reminder" link.  You will receive an email with the information you need to access the site.

Getting to the real-time chat room
After your have logged into the website, you can access the real-time chat service by going to Member Services->Enter SMILive Chatroom.  Or, you can click here to enter.  You may have to download the adobe meeting room plugin but you will be prompted to do so if you need it.

Links and Pages you may find userful
Here are some pages that you may find immediately useful:

1. Some basic strategies along with indicators and some worksheets
(This link has a couple of basic Tradestation workspaces and related code that relate to the recent market action)

2. Our basic discretionary pattern library

3. A discretionary methodology overview: An introduction to trend reversals

 Please note that you will have to login in order to fully access some of the links above.

How you can help us right now
You can help us right now by going through the website and letting us know of things you find that are either unclear or unhelpful, links that are broken, grammar, spelling and other oddities.  Suggestions for items to add to our FAQ page would be helpful as well.  If you think certain items should be removed, please let us know.

You can also critique this email - let us know if we have left out any information you think may be helpful to other beta users or other users in general (we will use a form of this message to welcome new users).

We will, of course, be awarding 2 $100.00 AMEX gift certificates to our most valuable contributors to this beta process.  As time goes on, we will work on other ways to reward everyone that is taking a chance on us and helping us to create a fabulous product.

We would like to thank you once again for coming aboard and we look forward to helping to make your trading journey an easier one.

- The Structured Markets Education Team

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