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Table of Contents
Disclaimer .............................................................................................................................................................. 3 Policies ..................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Welcome .................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Getting Started ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 PC Requirements ............................................................................................................................................ 6 Choosing a brokerage or financial spread betting company .................................................. 6 Choosing a charting platform.................................................................................................................. 6 A word of warning ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Installation and Setup .................................................................................................................................. 7 TiG Easy Install ........................................................................................................................................... 7 Setting up the Home Trading System on your Charts ............................................................ 7 Introduction to the Home Trading System......................................................................................... 8 Feature Overview................................................................................................................................................ 9 7 Core Features ............................................................................................................................................... 9 Extra Features .................................................................................................................................................. 9 Painted Bars ................................................................................................................................................... 10 Trigger Bars (with Initial Stop) ............................................................................................................. 11 EntryZone .................................................................................................................................................... 12 StopTrail....................................................................................................................................................... 13 ProfitLocker ................................................................................................................................................ 14 Painted Averages ........................................................................................................................................ 15 HTS Momentum ............................................................................................................................................ 16 HTS Radar ....................................................................................................................................................... 17 Simple Email Alerts .................................................................................................................................... 18 Input settings for the TiG Home Trading System........................................................................ 19 Online Videos and Customer Support Tickets .................................................................................. 20 Summary .............................................................................................................................................................. 21 Contact Us ........................................................................................................................................................... 22
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Disclaimer
THE PRODUCT IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE ENTIRE RISK OF THE PRODUCT IS ASSUMED BY YOU. THE RISK ASSOCIATED WITH THE RESULTS AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PRODUCT IS ALSO ASSUMED BY YOU. We are not brokers nor in any way authorised by the FSA. We do not and cannot give any investment advice. We are not engaged in rendering any investment or other professional advice. If you want investment advice, seek a licensed or registered investment advisor. There are no representations of potential earnings made by us or by you. Only those persons financially prepared should invest. Any and all trades posted in private or public, of any kind, should be viewed as hypothetical paper trades and without merit; and if they were accurate, they may never be able to be duplicated in the future. Your attempt to duplicate any posted trades may be hindered by the inherent delay in receiving a post AND executing that post, market liquidity, AND your own trading issues, including, but not limited to slippage, commissions, trading software, internet outages, psychological factors. The information contained in this document or any service or product we may provide in the future has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable, however, there is no guarantee to its accuracy or its completeness. We do not accept responsibility for typographical or verbal errors, omissions or failure to transmit information in a timely fashion. The information contained in this document is for educational, entertainment and news purposes only, reflecting the current personal opinion of us and is NOT designed, construed or believed in any manner to be Trading Advice. The information in this document is strictly for Educational Purposes. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. You hereby agree that ANY and ALL trading decisions you make are your own and reflect your own personal level of risks and trading skills. You also acknowledge and agree that you are aware of the risk parameters involved in trading and that the leveraged nature of Trading Futures, Equity CFDs, Options, Forex Exchange and Spread Betting can cause losses greater than your account balance. You further agree to accept full, complete and sole responsibility for any and all results in your trading account. There have been no promises, guarantees or warranties suggesting that any trade will result in a profit or will not result in a loss. Opinions are current opinions only and past results are not indicative of future results. It is your sole responsibility to know and define the risk before trading. You also hereby agree that you will not hold us liable or responsible in any way for any losses you incur in any trading account. We disclaim any responsibility for any adverse consequences that might arise directly or indirectly from the use of any material contained in or from this document or any product purchased via our site or by any contact in any form with any individual associated with The Indicator Guys Limited. Distribution and/or re-transmission of any of the content provided by us in any form or by any medium is expressly prohibited. The Indicator Guys Limited does not recommend or endorse specific transactions or trading methodologies or any advice concerning the value of or advisability of trading Futures, Equity CFDs, Options, Forex Exchange and Spread Betting. This service is designed to assist you and provide tools for the understanding of technical analysis of the financial markets. This is an educational document designed solely to assist you in developing your own personal methodology if you so desire, JUST AS FREELY AVAILABLE TECHNICAL ANALYSIS BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY or BOOK STORE WOULD ASSIST YOU. Internet Trading Risks In addition, there are risks associated with utilizing an Internet-based deal execution trading system including, but not limited to, the failure of hardware, software, and Internet connection. Since The Indicator Guys Limited does not control signal power, its reception or routing via Internet, configuration of your equipment or reliability of its connection, we cannot be responsible for communication failures, distortions or delays when trading via the Internet. Your dealer employs backup systems and contingency plans to minimize the possibility of system failure, and trading via telephone are always available. Disclosures and Transfers We do not disclose personal information to third parties, except when one or more of the following conditions is true: * We have the individuals permission to make the disclosure; * The disclosure is permitted by law or mandatory professional standards; * The disclosure is reasonably related to the sale or other disposition of all or part of our business or assets; * The personal information to be disclosed is publicly available; * The party to whom the disclosure is made controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with The Indicator Guys Limited; * The disclosure is reasonably necessary for the establishment or maintenance of legal claims; or * The disclosure is to persons or entities for whom we are providing services, provided the disclosure is consistent with the purpose for which the personal information was obtained. Copyright 2011 The Indicator Guys Limited
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Policies
Privacy and Security Policy The Indicator Guys web site uses security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. We do not store credit card details nor do we share customer details with any 3rd parties. We store the information in a database in a secure environment at our data centre. We will never share, sell, or rent individual personal information with anyone without your advance permission or unless ordered by a court of law. Information submitted to us is only available to employees managing this information for purposes of contacting you or sending you e-mails based on your requesting information. Delivery Policy All indicators, systems and software products purchased through our site, or otherwise, must be securely linked to a named account on one of our partner charting platforms. This must be done before the product can be delivered to, or installed by, the purchaser and the purchaser will not be able to operate their product without this step having been completed first. In order for us to securely link the product correctly as required, each customer will need to have an active account with one of our charting platform partners. In some platforms our delivery method allows us to detect a customer account number automatically. However, where this is not possible a request will be sent via email, and you will need to forward your charting platform customer account number to us. This should be sent to support@theindicatorguys.com along with your name and the name of your chosen charting platform. (e.g.) Name: Jenny Smith, Platform: TradeStation, Account ID: 123456 Once we have received this information, we can then securely link your product and deliver it to you electronically via return of email. We aim to accomplish this within 24hours during weekdays, but please allow longer if your request is made over a weekend or during a public holiday. Refund / Cancellation Policy Unless specifically stated on our website or within our sales materials, we generally do not offer refunds with any of our products. This is mainly due to the amount of time we have to spend setting up, delivering and supporting products during each sale, which makes it very impractical and uneconomical for us to do so. In the event that we do offer a Money Back Guarantee with any of our products however, we will always honour this commitment. We will aim to issue all refunds promptly, usually within 24hrs of receiving their request, but please allow longer if your request is made over a weekend or during a public holiday. Copyright 2011 The Indicator Guys Limited
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Welcome
Congratulations on your recent trading system purchase, we hope that this trading system will become a valuable tool in your analysis tool box and help move you closer to achieving your goal in becoming a trading success! This document is aimed at providing you with as much information about your recent purchase as possible. We believe this trading system is an incredible set of tools and feel sure that, once you begin to understand how it works and how it can be used to support your technical analysis, you too will see just how invaluable it is to your trading. If you have any comments or suggestions please send an email to info@theindicatorguys.com Thank you, -The TiG Team
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Getting Started
Before you start using your new trading system, please make sure you have everything you need to trade. This includes a compatible charting platform, brokerage and dedicated trading PC. Before you install your new trading system, please make sure that your operating system and charting platform are installed and running properly. Also take some time to become familiar with your charting platform.
PC Requirements
We recommend a computer with the following minimum technical specification: CPU: RAM: Hard Drive: Monitor: Operating System: Internet: 1.8 GHz Dual Core 1GB of RAM 1GB of available hard-disk space Resolution of 1280x768 or greater Windows XP, Vista, 7 High speed reliable ISP, with an ADSL or cable modem.
A word of warning
At TiG we are fully aware that trading the financial markets is not always an easy task. It can be very risky and highly stressful. The markets can do whatever they want whenever they want, meaning there is no certainty in trading other than prices going up and down over time. We strongly recommend that all customers first test out our products using a practice trade account. Most online brokerages can offer you some form of demo account. Our indicators analyse past data in order to indicate something which has been happening in the market. There is absolutely no guarantee that the markets will continue to produce the same results once you enter into a trade. There are literally hundreds of books published on the psychology of trading and how the mind works to manipulate the data that charts and trading systems or indicators produce. We believe that all traders should practice using our products, placing trades using a demo trade account, until the trader feels happy that they can use them effectively to help them in their real trading decisions.
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Feature Overview
The Home Trading System is a modular system composed of seven core features, most of which can be switched on or off as required, in order to suit your particular trading style. Let us now work through each of these features one at a time, so we can fully understand what they are and what they can each be used for.
7 Core Features
Painted Bars Trigger Bars EntryZone StopTrail ProfitLocker Painted Averages HTS Momentum
Extra Features
HTS Radar (Only available in supported platforms) Simple Email Alerts
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Painted Bars
The first key feature of the Home Trading System is the integrated bar-painting technology, which allows you as a trader to visualise what is going on in the market for your particular instrument. When the buyers are in charge of the market and driving the price higher, the colour of the bar in question will be blue. Conversely, when the sellers are in charge of the market and are driving the price lower, the colour of the bar in question will turn red. As this constant battle over prices between buyers and sellers takes place, you will often see the colour of a given bar fluctuating in real-time. However, once the bar has completed, it will no longer change colour and will simply form part of the price chart for future reference. Although this feature may sound fairly simple, it is actually incredibly powerful and effective, as it brings a whole extra dimension to your trading chart, which many traders do not have. The buying and selling pressures are continually evaluated by our custom algorithm and a set of complex calculations takes place behind the scenes in order to make this happen. In addition, rather than the colours chopping and changing all of the time between one bar and the next, the bars are able to remain the same colour over a sustained period of time, in order that Trends in the market may be more clearly identified. The system takes into account a multitude of surrounding factors, including a number of the previous bars on the chart, and it has also been very finely tuned for optimal sensitivity. As you can see from the this image, with the Painted Bars of the Home Trading System, we are already moving towards greater predictability of the moves which take place in the markets, by having a much clearer visual indication of the buying and selling pressures at play.
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EntryZone
This is a phenomenal feature, and the first of the optional features within the Home Trading System, meaning that you can choose at any point whether or not you wish to use it. It was developed using the feedback of our previous trading system users, as a way to clearly identify a good entry opportunity. Once a Trigger Bar has formed there is often much debate about where the best place to enter a trade would be. The way the financial markets operate means that in general, before a significant move can take place in a given direction, there will need to be a small move in the opposite direction. This allows the market to build inertia, and is known as a Pullback in the price. If you want a good metaphor for this, then consider flicking an elastic band for example. Once we have established that we want to enter a trade following a Trigger Bar, just as soon as we see a Pullback in the price take place, then the next question becomes How far should the market pull back before I place my trade? Act too quickly and you might not benefit at all from the pullback, placing yourself in a more risky position, but act too slowly and you might just miss the move altogether! The EntryZone feature will act in real-time to turn your chart a distinctive turquoise colour whenever the price pulls back significantly, by at least half of the height of the previous bar. It will only ever be activated during the first several bars which form after a Trigger Bar. So, when you notice that EntryZone has appeared on one of your charts, take a closer look at it to see if you like the opportunity presented. Remember, EntryZone will never tell you about the probability of the actual trade. It only acts as a guide to effective entry points. The decision on whether or not to take the trade will still need to come from you.
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StopTrail
The next optional feature built into the Home Trading System is called StopTrail. It is a Trailing Stop, which recalculates and adjusts itself in real-time, based primarily on what is known as the Average True Range of the instrument on your chart. The more volatile the price becomes, the more the stop will keep out of the way, reducing its chances of being hit. StopTrail acts as a guide to show you the optimal place to position your stop loss at any given time during a trade. Having started with the initial stop (the large blue or red dot as discussed earlier on) you will now be shown a better position to move your stop loss to. Once again, you should always move your stop in the direction of the trade, or in other words towards the move you are expecting, but never away from it. (On the rare occasion that you do see StopTrail further away than the initial stop, which will sometimes happen, remember that the Initial Stop always takes priority.) Using StopTrail provides you with several huge advantages over other traders which you should note. First of all it takes away the need to calculate your stop loss positions on each and every trade. This can otherwise be a very laborious and time consuming task. People often formulate a general strategy for their trailing stop distances too, only to find that they need to rethink it for each different instrument that they trade. StopTrail will self-adjust to each instrument you use it with, so there is no need to worry about any of this at all. StopTrail will trail all of your winning trades, allowing you to lock in your profits and protect your trading capital against adverse market movements, as you go. It can even be used as an effective Exit Strategy for your trades, so that once you are in a trade, you only need to concentrate your efforts on moving your stop, until the point where it gets hit. At this point you will be taken out of the trade and you can then start looking for a new one. This last point alone provides a massive advantage, as Exit Strategies are one of the toughest things to formulate in trading, but once you get used to relying on StopTrail, you will see just how helpful it can be and how straightforward it can make your trading.
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ProfitLocker
ProfitLocker is essentially a more conservative version of StopTrail. You may sometimes find yourself in a situation where a decent move has taken place and you are keen to protect your capital as much as you can, without completely exiting the position. In such a situation, you can simply enable ProfitLocker on your chart and revert to it for tighter stop loss positioning. This will still provide your instrument with a small amount of room for manoeuvre, but will not allow it quite as much leeway as its counterpart named StopTrail does. ProfitLocker is based on exactly the same principles as StopTrail. You may even opt to use it in place of StopTrail, as your primary trailing stop or exit strategy, especially if it better suits your trading style to be a little more conservative. By default the dots of the two features are coloured differently, in order that you may tell them apart.
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Painted Averages
The last of the seven core features of the Home Trading System is the Painted Averages. We have included three of the most commonly watched Exponential Moving Averages in the Home Trading System. These are the 8-period (short term), 50-period (long term) and 200-period (long term) moving averages. We call them PA8, PA50 and PA200, respectively. The numbers simply represent how many bars each moving average considers. The clever thing about the Painted Averages is that they change colour in real-time, to indicate exactly which side of the moving average line the price is trading on. This allows you to see, literally at a glance, where the price of any instrument is trading in relation to its short, medium or long term average. The lines will be blue with price trading above and red with price below. One of the key methods that we use here at The Indicator Guys is to trade only the signals which agree with a particular Painted Average. For example, you could trade all the blue signals when the PA50 is also blue, in order to match your long trades to the medium term trend and increase your probability of success. Or perhaps you would prefer to trade all the red signals when the PA200 is red, in order to match your short trades to the long term trend. Also, when all three lines move into agreement by turning the same colour, this shows a correlation between the short, medium and long term trends. This can often signal a high probability of a directional move taking place. It tends to be even more likely when all three lines are fanning out in order, i.e. short-medium-long term or long-medium-short term. Moving Average lines are also known to act as support and resistance lines under many circumstances and a lot of traders take advantage of this fact. They can also provide a useful indication as to how extended the current price level has become in relation to its average level. All prices have a tendency to return to their average levels with some regularity, so the further away that they get, the higher the probability of them changing direction and returning again.
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HTS Momentum
The next addition to the Home Trading System is the HTS Momentum, which is delivered as a separate indicator from the main system. It needs to be installed separately and will appear underneath the price chart, with its own coloured histogram bars and signal dots. The HTS Momentum Indicator has been included in the Home Trading System thanks to its incredible power and versatility. It complements the main system very well indeed and can often act as an early warning signal before a Trigger Bar forms in a particular direction. When the histogram bars (vertical bars) turn blue this indicates Buyer Momentum, and when the histogram bars turn red it indicates Seller Momentum. There are two shades of each colour to indicate subtle changes, so when the momentum drops off slightly you will see a slightly darker bar. There are also two modes, Standard or CounterTrend, which effect how the histograms display, depending on your own personal preferences. In standard mode the bars will always be blue above the Zero Line and red below it, whereas in CounterTrend as the soon as the momentum starts to fade significantly, the histogram bars will change colour to give you an early visual warning. You can experiment with each mode until you find your preference. The Zero Line is the line of dots which runs horizontally through the centre of the indicator. It references two other indicators to measure volatility. When it is grey there is a lack of volatility and when it turns white this signals volatility coming into play. This can often be the trigger for an explosive move in the direction of the next coloured histogram which forms. Take a look at how it performs historically on your chosen chart and see what you think. This is a fantastic indicator to use alongside the Home Trading System when you want to compare signals and get that extra confirmation of a move. It works great as both a filter and as a standalone indicator.
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HTS Radar
Some of the more advanced trading platforms offer stock screening through a dedicated display window. This uses a table of text, numbers and other data, and allows you to group and organise hundreds or thousands of instruments in a single place for convenience and efficiency. We have integrated the core features of The Home Trading System into this display so that you can see at a glance what is happening in your Watch List. We have included the initial signal type and colour, the number of bars the signal has been active for, whether EntryZone is active or not (with a built in highlight display) and also the stop-loss position as taken from StopTrail. Now you can easily see how recently a Trigger Bar appeared, so if you are looking for only the latest Buy signals in your stock watch list, for example, you can easily organise these to appear at the top of your list with two clicks of a button. (This is usually done by double-clicking on the relevant column heading.) For those of you who want to work with a lot of instruments and select what to trade based on your own particular criteria, this is a fantastic tool. Now that it has been integrated with our Home Trading System features and signals, the sky really is the limit in terms of managing your watch list and your trade positions.
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Summary
We hope this guide has offered you a good introduction to the Home Trading System and its many sophisticated features. This is a very powerful and highly versatile trading system for use in all kinds of situations by all kinds of traders, from the beginner level to advanced competence. It is also highly compatible with many other trading methodologies, should this be of interest. However, we must stress to you that there is absolutely no need to use anything other than what you have been provided with here, in order to achieve outstanding success in trading. You will certainly need a good dose of application, hard work, patience and discipline to succeed as a trader, but beyond this we hope that the Home Trading System can take a whole lot of the pressure off your shoulders, as well as helping to guide and speed you along on your journey to success. Of course, as you will be well advised with any trading system out there, no matter what your level of experience might be, we would always recommend spending some time testing and getting used to the system before risking your money in the markets. There are plenty of opportunities to run demo trade accounts and to start out with reduced trade sizes or bets. Finally, in trading as in life: Always remember to focus on the probabilities of success in order to achieve it quicker! -Thank you and good luck with your trading!
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Contact Us
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