2013 BladeTrader: +25.26% vs. S&P 500: +23.56% 

HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS

2012: +25% vs. S&P 500 +13% 

2011: +7% vs. S&P 500 +0%

2010: +42% vs. S&P 500 +13%

2009: +49% vs. S&P 500 +23%

2008: +5% vs. S&P 500 -38%

2007: +20% vs. S&P 500 +4%

 In our last communication, we had recommended selling covered calls at 1750 and looking for other opportunities.  1750 appears to be holding, but the market for the last 5 years has mostly been a bear trap.  The compromise to open the government, extend the debt limit and then revisit this in early 2014 has the market churning higher on political speculation.  Still, a longer term issue is the constant "kicking the can down the road" and let another congress deal with the mess only makes for much greater issues for our families.

"Never fight the tape"  is a good motto and in fact all signals are green, but this is no place to be euphoric.  Make sure you are on the look out for a collective group of items that might stop this bull in its tracks for a few months.  Treasuries are rallying (price space) and stocks are rallying.  Over the last several months stocks have one this battle, but having both melt requires constant watch.

I will be hosting a training seminar on the November 3rd.  It is a 25 seat seminar on where we are and how we trade.  I will be covering everything we do and our current performance thus far.  I will also be demonstrating our software and its modeling capabilities as well as answering questions via GoToTraining.  I will send out an invite this evening to our email list, but I have already reserved a few seats so we will have 20 open seats, they will go fast so register when you can. 

This training session is free but will later training sessions will be tied to a DVD series I will be putting together for our website and training seminars.

We will be talking about trading, so there will be no investment agenda for individuals.  The software trades the same for everyone, but I wanted to expose some myths out there around High Frequency Trading, Technical Analysis, Fundamental Analysis, and a serious technical approach to trading vs. day trading.

I hope many of you can attend, it will be our first training seminar and as such it will be ad-hoc in a lot of ways.  So, if you're interested in how we have managed to beat or meet the stock market for nearly 8 years, join in the training seminar and I will show you how we do it.