How to Develop a Winning Trading  System 
that Fits You
 

Audio Program 

 

NEW  Revised Edition

Van Tharp is proud to launch his updated and revised system development home study program. 

Gain all the benefits from Dr, Van Tharp's years of modeling traders and from his research on how good trading systems are developed. 

His conclusion from this research is that the average person doesn’t have a chance at profitable trading because they concentrate on all of the wrong things.  You won’t learn this information watching the financial news, reading financial magazines, or reading the mainstream financial newspapers because the media will totally ignore the most significant aspects of system development, including: 

-Objectives, 
-Expectancy, and 
-Position Sizing.

 

After writing two Market Wizard books, Jack Schwager also concluded that the most important characteristic of all the top traders and investors he interviewed was that they had adopted an investing/trading system to fit them.

This program helps you determine what type of trading system suits you personally and how to create it. 

If you want consistency and you want to make an additional $10,000, $75,000, $250,000, or even a million dollars in extra cash profits from the market over the next year or two -- then you should read this entire letter.  Learn little-known, closely guarded secrets that are not published in books and that you’re not likely to find unless you accidentally stumble upon them yourself.  

This new program has 11 audio CDs of new material and retains 9 CDs from the classic home study course covering information no longer taught in our workshop.

The material covered in Program One is taught exclusively by Dr. Van Tharp and covers little known secrets for developing customized, winning trading systems. This  is timeless information and therefore it is not linked to any particular market or timeframe.

We retained sections from the original systems development recording taught by Dr. Tharp and systems expert Chuck LeBeau because this original section, Program Two, contains material that is no longer covered in the workshops and can only be found on this audio program.

Material covered includes the psychological pitfalls of system development, understanding that you only trade your beliefs about the market and not the market itself, and key concepts of system development including some of Dr. Tharp’s trade-mark concepts such as expectancy, R-multiples™, System Quality Number™ and position sizing™.

You will learn trading concepts that actually work in areas such as trend following, band trading, value trading, mental scenario trading, seasonal tendencies, spread trading and arbitrage.

Among many other things, this program will familiarize you with the key parts of a system, give you good examples of each part, and help you develop appropriate setups, and an appropriate entry and stop loss.

Course Objectives:

• To familiarize you with the psychological pitfalls of system development. At the very least, it’s critical that you understand that you only trade your beliefs about the market, not the market itself.

• To help you understand the key concepts and steps in system development, including expectancy, R-multiples, system quality and position sizing.

• To help you understand the power of objectives and how objectives influence your results, to give you practice strategizing with some objectives in our simulations, and to help you understand what is required of system development objectives. If you understand the power and importance of objectives and use this sort of strategizing to meet them, then your whole approach to system development will change.

• To help you understand some of the key concepts that you could trade that actually work:

• Trend following, especially trends based upon fundamentals.

• Band trading.

• Value trading where value is defined as buying things at pennies on the dollar.

• Mental scenario trading.

• Seasonal tendencies when these are "real" and not statistical abnormalities.

• Spread trading and arbitrage.

• To help you define what "R" will be for you in your trading and develop appropriate setups, entry, and a stop loss.

• To familiarize you with the key parts of a system and give you good examples of each part.

• To help you decide what criteria you might have to meet before you are willing to trade a system. These are going to be based upon your own values, not someone else’s.

• To make you more familiar with the key to meeting your objectives—position sizing—so that you have a good chance of meeting your objectives.

• To teach you how to determine just how good your system is whether it is a Forex day trading system or a stock value investing system.  We can do that now and you can finally learn whether or not you have a decent system.

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What Kind of Trader are You?

Are you a low-risk investor who just wants to make small, consistent profits each month with only an occasional loss?   Learn how to develop a system that will allow you to develop a unique methodology that will give you that kind of consistency!

Are you a gutsy trader who’d like to make yearly profits of 100 percent, 200 percent or even 1,000 percent per year?  It’s possible, although risky, and you can learn that too.  The interesting thing is that you can do it in such a way that the only money you are risking is the money you’ve already made from the market.  That’s real leverage!  And, you’ll learn about it in the creative money management section.

Only about 5% of the world’s traders and 10% of the world’s investors, consistently make big money. What these winners do is not complex. In fact, simplicity is one of the keys to making money. And you can do it too! I’ve modeled this process and can teach you how to develop your own trading system that fits your own style of trading.

Our job is to teach you what you need to know to become a peak performing trader or investor.

Why develop my own system? Isn’t it easier to just go buy a system with proven results?

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of trading systems that work.  But most people, after purchasing a preexisting system, will not follow the system and trade it exactly as it was intended.  Why not?  Because the system doesn’t fit them or their style of trading

One of the biggest secrets of successful trading is finding a trading system that fits you.  In fact, Jack Schwager, after interviewing enough “market wizards” to write two books, concluded that the most important characteristic of all good traders was that they had found a system of methodology that was right for them.

When someone else develops a system for you, you don't know what biases they might have. But when you develop  your own system, it will be compatible with  your own beliefs, objectives, personality and edges.  And that will make it much easier for you to trade. 

Furthermore, most of the system development software for sale really encourages some of the trading biases that I see as detrimental to overall trading success.For example, give a system developer enough leeway and that person will have a system that perfectly predicts the moves in the market and makes thousands of dollars on paper with certain historical markets.  Most software allows people to optimize to their heart's content.  Eventually, they will end up with a meaningless system that makes a fortune on the data from which it was obtained, but performs miserably in real trading.

Most system development software is designed because people want to know the perfect answer to the markets.  They want to be able to predict the markets perfectly.  As a result, you can buy software now for a few hundred dollars that will allow you to overlay numerous studies over past market data.  Within a few minutes, you can begin to think that the markets are perfectly predictable.  And that belief will stay with you until you attempt to trade the real market instead of the historically optimized market.  Many trading accounts have plummeted from this very thinking.  One “sure-thing” trade placed without proper position sizing can wipe some traders completely out of the game.

Our job in this course is to teach you what you need to know to develop your own system. The material you will learn is not market or time-frame specific. So whether you trade stocks, futures, currencies or gold, etc., or whether you place 50 trades per day or 50 trades per year, you will learn all of the components that work in any system.

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Three Critical Secrets You Can Adopt to Develop a Superb Wealth-Building Formula

If you concentrate on these three secrets -- which 95 percent of all traders and investors totally ignore -- then you can vault yourself into a class that only a few have been able to achieve.

ONE:  You must concentrate on the most important task of system development.  If you do it properly, it will take at least half of your time during the development process.   When you learn what it is, you’ll say, “Of course it’s important,” but you’ll still probably spend very little time on it.   This critical task is developing sound objectives.  To develop a system that fits you, you need to really think about what you want.  It’s not a trivial task.

There are at least 30 questions you need to address when you develop a trading system. Dr. Tharp takes you through each step—one by one.  When you finish, you’ll know exactly what’s important for you.

TWO:  A good investing/trading system has 10 key components.  Most people ignore six or seven of them when they do their research.  In fact, you’ll never see a book on system development that covers more than six of them.  That’s the limitation the average trader has in doing research.   You want big profits with as little risk as possible, so you want every advantage possible when you start to develop such a system.

You should be able to take advantage of eight of these components easily after hearing the CDs.  And, with a little more effort, you’ll be able to use all 10.   If you use all 10 with competence, you’ll be among the top one tenth of one percent of all traders and investors in the world.

THREE: Most people concentrate on the least important element in system development -- entry. They also ignore the most important element -- position sizing. “Developing a Winning Trading System That Fits You” will teach numerous position sizing algorithms that peak performers use.  In addition, you’ll learn numerous position sizing algorithms that will help you lower your overall risk, while at the same time, helping you achieve more consistent performance.

If you’re more adventurous, we’ll show you how to really go for really big returns using the market’s money.  When you use these super money making techniques, you could make 1,000 percent on your money each year, risking mostly the money that the market has given you.

  You’ll learn the secret behind how one trader turned $10,000 into $1.1 million in less than a year.  He traded a volatility breakout system, but the key to his profits was his money management.

  In addition, we’ll also show you how another group of traders have taken over $100 million out of the market over the last 10 years!  They traded a channel breakout system, but the real key to their success was the money management. Learn the advantages and disadvantages of both these styles. This sort of adventurous trading is very risky.  You could lose a substantial amount of money if you’re not careful.  As a result, we’ll show you all the pitfalls so that you thoroughly understand the risk involved.

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Eleven Money Making Secrets You Will Learn From This Trading System Development Program:

1.    You’ll get specific ideas for making better market entry and exit decisions. 

2. You’ll also get specific position sizing ideas from the author of the soon to be published Definitive Guide to Position Sizing. And it is only through position sizing that you’ll be able to meet your trading objectives.  The CDs and the manual contain lots of information you’ll want to review over and over again.

3.    You’ll be introduced to the psychological pitfalls that hold back so many people.  Just knowing about them will help you avoid them.

4.    You’ll work through Dr. Tharp’s model, developed after 15 years of research with top traders and investors, on how to design, develop, and customize a trading system in the most effective way possible.

5.    You’ll learn new approaches to the markets and new techniques for analyzing them.  

There are 15 concepts behind most trading systems.  Most concepts, including some of the most popular, are meaningless.  But you’ll learn about the ones that work best.

6.     You’ll get practical trading ideas.

7.     Dr. Tharp’s research on a random-entry trading system will be explored.  You’ll learn how it works.  Incidentally, the system earns between 0.5 percent and 11 percent per year on various historical tests, despite adding $100 for slippage and commission on each transaction.  Yet the entries are totally random!

8.    You’ll learn about expectancy and how expectancy is shaped by your exits from the market.

9.  You learn how to determine just how good your system is.   And with this information you’ll be able to compare day trading systems on one market with long-term investing systems in another market.   It doesn’t matter..this method will tell you just how good your system is.

10.  Fifty percent of system development is designing sound objectives.  You’ll hear ideas on developing sound objectives for traders and investors.

11.  Co-presenter Chuck LeBeau, former co-editor of Technical Traders Bulletin and co-author of Computer Analysis of the Futures Market, has 25 years of experience in the markets and he’s widely known for his specialized knowledge of technical analysis and his trading skills.

This Is the kind Of Information You Will Listen to and Read About Over and Over Again

Imagine yourself being in a room full of professional traders and investors.  Each of them controls at least $5,000,000 in trading funds.  Some of them control over a billion dollars.  And these top traders and investors are gathered together to help you!

Imagine that your goal is to develop the perfect trading system for you.  You probably already have a goal like that, don’t you?  So imagine that you could ask them any questions you wanted and they will give you honest, straightforward answers.  Think about all the secrets you’d learn.

Imagine what would happen to your profits when you applied that material and used it to develop a system that was perfect for you and your personality.  The results would be incredible.

It sounds great, but how could you meet all of these top traders and professionals?  And if you did, how would you know what to ask them?  Would they tell you the truth?

It would be difficult.  But you can have the same experience because Market Wizard Trading Coach, Dr. Van K. Tharp, has done the work for you and collected it into this winning package.  He has spent over 15 years working with the top people in the field, interviewing and studying thousands of top investors and traders.

Dr. Tharp Has Discovered Certain Little-Known Secrets About Doing Research that You Need to Know if You Want to Develop an Effective System That’s Right For You!

Dr. Van K. Tharp is an expert.  He is a very consistent, astute, and systematic researcher of human behavior.  He has personally interviewed hundreds of top traders to determine what makes them excel in their profession and collected psychological profiles from over 5,000 traders and investors.

With this information, he carefully crafted a model that people like you can adopt to improve your own skills.  When Jack Schwager interviewed 16 of the world’s best traders and investors for this best-selling financial book, Market Wizards, he also interviewed Dr. Tharp as a peak performance coach in his book. 

You Can Achieve Tremendous Results Like that Too!

“If one person can achieve great success, then that skill can be taught to others—in fact, to almost anyone.  I’ve proven this formula in helping to develop top traders and investors. Now, I want to offer you the same incredible opportunity to make big money.” -- Van K. Tharp Ph.D.

What Does This Program Contain?

This audio  program was recorded live from two separate workshops.  It contains a complete three day workshop plus nine additional hours.  This is material that will change the way you look at systems and system development forever.  And many of our clients listen to these CDs over and over and over again just to get all the subtle details they sometimes miss on the earlier reviews.

 The comprehensive manual encompasses over 340 pages and acts as a guide, a workbook and an instructor through your system building journey.

(Review Table of Contents)

 Here’s What Other Students Said…

  • “Your system workshop simply changed the way I approach system development… my profits are significantly higher and could have paid my workshop costs ten times since then.” -- L.M., Atlanta, GA

  • “Superb.  Every section of the workshop was stuffed with information.  I couldn’t take notes fast enough (so I opted to just listen).  Lots of creative ideas worthy of further research” -- R.W., Superior, CO

  • “Due to attending your workshop entitled How to Develop a Winning Trading System that Fits You, I have had a radical shift in my perception of how to achieve consistently successful trading.” -- M.S., Shropshire, England

  • “Excellent!   I never thought of how many separate elements went into a system.  I now have the knowledge and confidence to develop a system for myself.” -- B.F., Huntington Station, NY

  • “Very useful to see first hand the real risks of ruin, over-trading, etc.   The workshop was very helpful to me in laying out the specific tasks I must complete.” -- B.C., Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

  • “Having been to all of Van’s workshops on system development, this one was a repeat for me.  However, I still gained a great deal from the workshop -- the creative money management strategies section was especially thought provoking.  This workshop is a must for any trader, beginner or experienced.  Well done Van.” -- K.T., London, England

How To Know If This Study Program Is Right For You

Are you willing to roll up your sleeves and work at designing objectives and risk parameters for yourself?  If you are, and you’re willing to apply the principles we teach you, then you’ll love this package. You’ll end up with a system that’s just right for you!

We’ll teach you one of the real secrets of success -- how to use all the system building blocks to design a trading system in such a way that it fits your personality and style of trading or investing.  

In the process of learning how to do this, you’ll probably come up with dozens of winning systems that will work because they’ll be based on criteria that fit your situation.  Remember, this audio series is about giving you the tools you need to design your own system.  We do not give you a system that has already been developed.  That would defeat the whole idea of developing a system that fits you.

The concepts and ideas you will learn could easily improve your trading overnight.  Most importantly, the information you learn, once it’s properly applied, could easily vault you into a new superstar wealth and success status within a few years.   You’ll understand why super traders continue to make money while everyone else is losing their shirts.

What the Home Study Program is Not:

Developing a trading system encompasses many parameters including the capital you have available, the type of markets you’re trading, the type of money management rules you are applying to your trades, your psychology, and other resources which are available to you. Our audio series is comprehensive in that it discusses each of these aspects. 

However, it is not a step-by-step program focusing on a particular type of trading system. That would be against our principles because only you can decide what’s right for you based upon your specific objectives. When you understand that you’ll be on your way towards developing an ideal system for you.  We don’t give you specific trading systems.  Instead, we give you trading ideas that make a lot of money and we show you how to adapt them to make them your own.   And we do it because that’s the only way you’ll ever trade it.

The Research Can Take Most of Your Time And Energy –but  Dr. Tharp Has Done the Hard Part for you

So much of the research has been done for you.  Think how much time, energy, and money you can save with this fact alone.  You can focus on the more important aspects of trading system development and Dr. Tharp’s model.  Most of you will probably save thousands of dollars certainly many, many times the cost of the program.  Most traders who are really committed to doing research will probably spend a significant amount of money and time just to find the same information, which will be presented in this program.  Some traders have invested more than a million dollars in research to arrive at the conclusions you’ll find in this program.

Chuck LeBeau

Chuck LeBeau has dedicated the last 27 years of his professional career to the art and science of system development. If there’s an angle on better trading system Chuck’s either investigated it, invented it, or tested it. Chuck is the co-author of Computer Analysis of the Futures Market, a perennial favorite among system developers. He has also been a frequent guest lecturer at the University of Southern California where he teaches fundamental and technical analysis of futures in their MBA program. Chuck is the former co-editor of Technical Traders Bulletin. He’s widely known for his specialized knowledge of technical analysis and his trading skills. He is now a professional developer of trading systems and operates a website devoted to system development topics.

"Waiting until you have lost money to review the system is an inexcusable mistake, but that is the standard approach system traders have always taken." Chuck LeBeau from his feature interview in Stocks and Commodities, November 2003

Your Satisfaction Is Guaranteed!

Are you a success-driven person who is committed to using these building blocks to create a masterpiece?  Will you roll up your sleeves and do some research, as we point the way and give you lots of ideas?  If you’re that sort of person, then I’m willing to guarantee that you will be totally satisfied. Absolutely!

Order now and we’ll prove it to you.  You will have one full year to develop your system and apply the principles taught.  At the end of the year, if you are not satisfied that the information has improved your trading, send back your audio program, along with the system(s) you developed and a journal showing your trades, and your objectives.  If you have followed the steps and are still not satisfied, we will refund the full price of your audio program.  All we ask is that you follow the model and do the work.

Call right now while you’re thinking about it.  We’re at 919-466-0043 or 800-385-4486.  We’ll be happy to answer your questions.

Remember, the program is a better than risk free proposition to you.  We guarantee your satisfaction.  If that makes sense to you, order now.  It’s that simple.

Order Now -Order on line or call 919-466-0043 or 800-385-4486.

 

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System Development Articles:

  • What Can we Expect from a Trading System?
  • Exits - Are Your Stops Too Large or Too Small?
  • System Performance, Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four
  • Don’t Take Just Any Ol’ Entry (Click here to read all)

Down Free MP3 Audio Files. System Development Teleconference with Van Tharp, Chuck LeBeau and D.R. Barton. One hour and 30 minute teleconference.

 

 

 

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