Capital Preservation

Capital preservation is a primary concern to our trading team. Our combined trading systems never allow more than five percent of the total equity in your account to be in play at any time. Typically less than two percent is exposed in open trades at any given time. Appropriate stop-loss measures are always employed to minimize the downside risk of draw-down should market conditions suddenly shift.

Broker

Our Forex Broker is VantageFX.

Trading Systems

Our trading team utilizes a variety of technical and fundamental analysis tools as well as up to five proprietary automated signals for the trades executed for our managed program. Currencies include the USD, CAD, CHF, GBP, EUR, JPY, AUD and the NZD.

The strategies objectives are to produce returns which are non-correlated to traditional investment vehicles such as equity and fixed income markets. After 2009, any systems that were not performing were either terminated or re-calibrated to fit the current environment and change in volatility levels.

Our trading methodology is based upon short term technical models. All positions have fixed risk parameters and profit targets established at the outset of every trade. We apply Ichimoku, Bollinger, Momentum, Pivot, Price Action and Fibonacci models for trading the Majors and JPY pairs. Our trades are based upon proprietary Institutional grade systems using the aforesaid models and are executed via a combination of automated and discretionary systems weighted 70%/30% between the two. Typical trades can be anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 hours in duration. This shorter term approach to trading reduces overnight and event risk in an ever changing 24 hour market.

We use three main models to identify trading opportunities in the market. All of the systems within the models are rule-based, meaning a specific set of quantified variables has to be met before a trade can be taken. On all trades, quantified risk is established at the outset and fixed based upon the strategy. Our primary models are detailed below.

1. Pivot / Price Action Models - based upon 10 years of proprietary quantitative and statistical data, we have two pivot and three price action models for finding intraday trading opportunities. These models take advantage of statistical anomalies in the market. They are completely algorithmic and executed via software (not black box), meaning they and are only activated by the Fund Manager in the optimal environments.
   
   
2. Momentum Models - designed to take advantage of swings in the market, this system uses a combination of proprietary indicators to target specific momentum changes. We have three systems for this model, two of which take advantage of short term swings (4 hours - 3 days) while one specifically looks for micro swings (less than 1hr). All of these systems are systematic-discretion based, meaning they are rule-based but there is no software or algorithm executing the trades.
   
   
3. Ichimoku Models - using our proprietary Ichimoku systems, we look for trending based opportunities on the intraday and short term time compressions (4 hours - 3 days) to capture 80% of a trending move. All of these systems are systematic-discretion based, meaning they are rule-based but there is no software or algorithm executing the trades.

The combination of these systems and analysis methods spread out over a variety of currencies and multiple crosses with small/controlled risk parameters and shorter time exposure offers a high yield program while maintaining a diversified and guarded approach to Forex investing.

Forex trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.
In extreme market conditions "slippage" may occur, potentially affecting fills.
High leverage and low margin can magnify or lead to both substantial profits and losses.