Before You Begin

Dear Trader:

Thank you for your interest in our outstanding seasonal software. To the best of our knowledge, there is NOTHING available to the trading public (as well as many professionals) that even comes close to this program. At the click of a few keys you have access to over one million key date seasonal trades and spreads in stocks and futures. You can search the extensive historical database by date of entry, P/L ratio, historical % of time correct, by market and by month. You can view the trades you have selected in spreadsheet form and/or in chart form. And you can refine your searches within categories in order to select the trades you want.

Although SeasonalTrader is an incredibly POWERFUL, state of the art program, it is not a guaranteed "holy grail" sure-fire road to riches tool. It can only work as well as you can. In other words, if you're a poor trader, undisciplined, disorganized, gun shy, or poorly capitalized, this program may not help you, no matter how good it may be. The bottom line is, of course, the TRADER and not the METHOD or the SYSTEM. The trader is clearly the weakest link in the chain. The trader causes good systems to work poorly. The trader is the force that can cause a system to perform well or to regress to the mean (or worse).

In order to improve your potential with SeasonalTrader, you must do the following:

• Read, learn and study the accompanying directions contained in these pages.
• Use good sense when following trades from SeasonalTrader. Do this by using confirming indicators, trend indicators, and timing methods.
• Manage risk and limit risk. If the potential loss from a trade, given its percentage stop loss is too high given its current price, then pass on the trade or use an options strategy.
• Be sure you are sufficiently capitalized to take the trades that interest you. Being undercapitalized will often result in losses you might not otherwise have to suffer since you may not have the margin to stay with a trade to its conclusion.
• Trade a balanced portfolio. No one can follow all the seasonal trades. Instead of attempting to trade too many times, focus on an unduplicated, uncorrelated portfolio of markets that will spread your risk. Diversification is one of the cardinal rules to successful trading!
• Above all, have the discipline to play your own game. Don't jump out of winning trades too quickly by reacting to news or to advice and information superfluous to your trades.

These rules, when combined with an understanding of how to use this program will benefit you greatly in the short run as well as in the long run. Remember that profitable trading requires several important inputs, only ONE of which is an effective trading methodology.

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