Our portfolio manager, James Taylor, has more than 15+ years of proprietary trading experience, including stocks, futures, currencies, and options. Mr. Taylor has managed customer accounts for three years.  Mr. Taylor is a trained technical market analyst with 15+ years experience building automated market-timing/ trading systems; experienced in inter-market analysis, trend analysis, probability theory, time series analysis, technical and fundamental analysis, derivative pricing, hedging and risk management. 

Our employees have more than 25 years of combined experience as consultants for America's largest financial services firms, building risk management, portfolio management, quantitative pricing, and trading systems.  We have consulted for leading mutual fund companies, hedge funds, and investment banks. 

Our portfolio manager, Mr. Taylor has a masters degree in finance and economics from the University of Illinois, and a bachelors degree in computer science from Purdue University.    He has carefully studied investment methodologies of top investors by reading hundreds of books on trading / investment strategy / technical and fundamental analysis, and attending training workshops by top performing CTAs.  Mr. Taylor actively monitors global business, economic, and political news and their impact on markets. 

While investing in futures and options can carry significant risks given the amount of leverage that is possible, that risk can be reduced by structured positions such as covered calls/puts and spreads.  Tech Trading manages risk on all positions taken for our customer accounts.  This risk management does not completely eliminate risk, and it does not imply that investing in futures and options is less risky than investing in stocks and bonds; in addition, the use of covered positions and spreads may not mitigate an investor's risk due to the leverage and volatility associated with futures trading.  

However, It is our strong belief that such risk management is often not taken by 'advisors' who manage stock and bond investments for their customers.  It has been common practice for 'advisors' to blindly allocate a percentage of customer assets across stock and bond investments, simply changing this allocation based upon the age and risk aversion of the investor.    (e.g. as an investor aged, the 'advisor' would transfer a higher percentage of their assets from stocks to bonds.) We feel that they do not understand the extreme risks present in these markets now, and they believe and trust that these investments will continue to be inversely correlated (when one underperforms, the other would outperform). 

We believe that both stocks and bonds have the potential for sharp declines as the financial condition of the U.S. government continues to deteriorate and interest rates are finally forced higher by the marketplace.  Investors who have a portfolio of stocks may be diversified, but remains unhedged and exposed in the event of a market decline.  For more information on our views, and related news headlines, read our economic report, and our collection of economic factoids, DataPoints, which will detail the imbalances present in the global economy. 

Given the wide-spread and large losses that investors took from declines in the stock and real estate markets from the bursting of the last two asset bubbles, we believe that common-sense is not so common, especially among investment 'advisors'.  Many of America's largest mutual fund companies suffered steep losses and redemptions when these markets collapsed.  They were caught completely off-guard and were surprised when these events occurred, despite the fact that these events were very predictable and the excesses and overvaluation were very well documented in the major financial press.  Each time we experience a financial mania, the talking-heads in the media claim that this time is different, and rationalize away the extreme valuations, and project even higher prices.

Tech Trading saw these collapses coming, warned our clients, and profited from these events.  We documented those predictions in our economic report, and we are positioned to profit from the current set of market imbalances.  Investors should feel confident that their advisor is paying attention to what is happening in the real economy (good or bad), and is taking precautions to protect and grow their hard earned savings.

Tech Trading's approach to trading is to take positions and to assume market risk only when technical models identify high confidence patterns typically associated with profitable trades. The system will wait for a low-risk entry point before entering a trade in order to minimize the draw-down, and confirm the market’s new trend direction. Tech Trading uses trend following systems that incorporate some of the qualities of reversal/trading-range systems, which allow the system to trade in many different market environments.

Tech Trading’s investing methodology is: always invest in the direction of the underlying economic fundamentals and uses sophisticated computerized trading systems to:

We look for trading opportunities that provide the following:

Tech Trading has a proven track record, achieving proprietary returns averaging 66.8% per year for the last two years (net of 2% management fee and a 20% incentive fee.)  For more information, please refer to the Performance section in Tech Trading's Disclosure Document.

Unlike hedge funds, which normally have a lock-up period of 1-12 months, Tech Trading does not have such a restriction, and allows client redemptions from their accounts at any time.  All accounts are held in the name of the account holder.  Tech Trading only has discretionary authority to trade customer accounts, and will never have access to their funds.   Customers will be able to easily wire money in and out of their account, most of the time, on the same day.

Tech Trading believes that a money manager should earn NO INCENTIVE FEES if the manager does not produce profits for the customer.  In other words, we show you the money, or we don't charge incentive fees, period.

We founded this business to help protect investors' hard-earned money and to give them piece of mind.  We feel that now, more than ever, the public needs skilled, informed investment advice.  We live in very challenging times, and investors do not have time to lose in recovering assets and preparing for retirement.  We take our fiduciary responsbility to protect our clients' assets seriously, and we put our money where our mouth is, investing in the same positions we take for our client accounts. Our current investment program, Maximum Alpha, allows small investors to participate with a minimum investment of $25,000. We are committed to helping smaller investors who cannot participate in our program by providing free investment counseling, and free investment software to help them self-manage their own investments.