There are 3 kinds of Strategies available.

1. Trends
2. Swings
3. Market Neutral

Below is a graphical representation of Automated Strategies.

Legend:

• Only one of , or may happen for each trade.
• or may happen anytime during the running time of the strategy.
• means the Market reached the Profit Limit. That is a win.
• means the Market reached the Stop Loss. If no Trailing Stop is used, that is a loss. With a Buy order, if Trailing Stop is used, is a loss if Market is below breakeven or a win if Market is above breakeven. In case of a Sell order, the situation is reversed.
• may happen anywhere between Limit and Stop Loss values at whatever the Market value when the running time of the strategy expires.

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Most BotTrading™ fully automated Strategies offered monthly for rental by StrategyLand Research are Intraday (very few go overnight). To know the running times of a Strategy, whether it is a real or paper account, click on a "Strategy" in the "Strategy Table" and Click on "Strategy" in the menu, then "Strategy Details", "VTrader" and "Time". If you write your own strategies, or rent the right to monthly change the parameters of our strategies, you can make the Strategy(ies) run intraday or overnight as you wish.

*StrategyBot has been designed to fully allow Automation such that Strategies run independently from each other within the same Contract. A Buy initiated from one Strategy will not affect a running Sell order initiated by another Strategy. It is then possible to run as many as 50 or more Strategies inside a single Contract without any risk of interferences between subsequent orders.

When a strategy runs Intraday only, half of its margin cost is deducted from your account by the broker. If the margin amount of the Contract is US$3,500, only US$1,750 will be deducted. Some American brokers partnering with us even offer as low as US$500 for Mini S&P and Mini NSDQ. The reason brokers do lower the margin amount is because all of our strategies include bracket orders with limited Stop losses and benefit from Auto Trailing Stop. Our strategies do have strict Risk control.

Even if the strategies are fully automated, optionally a user could remain in control with:

• under "Strategy" in the menu, the capability to stop, delete, run, liquidate any strategy independently at any time.
  
  
  
  Example of Liquidate Strategy.
  This strategy made 4593.5- 4589= 4.5pts
  4.5pts x €25 = €112.5
  However, you could have liquidated at 4601 and made 4601-4589=12pts
  12pts x €25 = €300
  
  

• under "Account" , "Account Limits" in the menu, setting max daily profit and max daily loss or even managing profit management for the entirety of the portfolio.
• inside the "Strategy Table" in the column "Lots" deciding how many lots to trade per strategy. Only valid when the Strategy is in Stop mode.
• inside the "Strategy Table" in the column "Direction" deciding of the direction of the market (Bull, Bear or Any). Only valid when the Strategy is in Stop mode.

Each strategy includes some or all of the parameters listed at the bottom of this page. All fully automated Strategies include these four categories of parameters;

-	Count of occurence	(Counts)
-	Exit Style Parameters	(ClosePosition)
-	Time of execution	(Time & Wait)
-	Buy and Sell Conditions	(Strategy)

The figure above has been obtained by clicking on Strategy -> Add strategy -> VTrader.
This can also be obtained by clicking on Strategy -> Strategy Details.

The values shown in "ClosePositon" for Limit and Stop are "percentage of the present market value".

All these parameters differ from one Strategy to the next. Click here for the Strategies' Parameters.(Please right click on the link and do a "Save Target As") .

Example of a simple Strategy, based on MACD crossing.

What you need to know about Fully Automated Strategies ?

• Generation :
  We have been designing strategies for many years. Over the years we have improved the software StrategyBot substantially enough to include these better features into our strategies. So obviously, as an example, the first Generations (1 to 3) of our Strategies did not include Auto Trailing Stop.
  Old Strategies were back tested on lesser number of years than the new Strategies are tested now before commercialization.
  The latest Strategies do include new parameters and new codes than we have discovered are capable to improve the performance and ROI.
  Once a Strategy is loaded into our system, by law we cannot change it. When we improve an old strategy, we have to rename it differently keeping the old version. Users must be able to use whatever they have used. If a user does not like an old Strategy, he has to make the decision to stop it, delete it and run a newer Group of strategies which implements newer features as made available.
  
• Performance :
  Before a Strategy decides to Buy or Sell upon studying the market movements, it is possible that the study conditions do not meet the requirements to Buy or Sell and no trades may happen that day. This event could be repeated several days in a row and is totally dependent on market conditions. There are good months for some strategies and there are bad months as there are good days and bad days. We have never experienced any strategy to win nor lose constantly.
  
• Trends versus Swings:
  Trend Strategies would tend to return more profit with less number of trades than Swing strategies would. But they might create worst losses too. Swinging in very limited number of trades would tend to be better at the start of the exchange or at the end of the exchange. Some Contracts tend to swing a lot (like S&P) where other Contracts would tend to Trend more (like Dax and EurosToxx). However when the market is uncertain all the Contracts behave differently. As an example when in 2004 the Crude Oil suddenly raised then all indices did fell before becoming very uncertain by swinging many times a day. Many Trend Strategies then lost days after days. Depending on the high and low value of each Swing, some Swing Strategies also lost. The best returns are achieved when the markets crash or raise substantially. In that case Trend Strategies tend to return more than Swings. If the Swings happen within the Limits of the study period no trades will occur. Only when those Limits are broken then Buy or Sell are initiated, then it is up to the up and down values of the next Swing to determine a win or a loss.
  
• Number of times :
  To limit the number of transactions per day, each Strategy has a preset number of win, loss, and tries. This setting is one of the main factor determining if a Strategy is a Low, Medium or High Risk.
  Number of Losses allowed per day: Obviously if the number of losses per day is only "one" then there is a probability that this only loss allowed may happen with the very first trade. Therefore these Strategies with only one loss allowed would, without doubts, register losses some days each month. At least two losses allowed per day are available with some Medium or High risk strategies.
  Number of Wins allowed per day: It would seem wise somehow to set the number of wins as high as possible, but then the number of transactions may introduce higher costs and the last trade of the day might trade out at whatever market value upon reaching the closing time of execution and that last trade may result in a loss which would affect negatively the overall P&L for the day. In addition, wins may happen due to Auto Trailing Stop having passed the breakeven market value, not due to reaching the Limit. In that case, those wins due to Auto trailing Stop might not generate as high profit and might not compensate for the transaction costs, therefore limiting the number of wins becomes reasonable.
  Total number of times: needs to be set as per the last sentences on the paragraph above to limit "overtrading" which most experts claim is the main reason for losses.
  Be aware that with the market trending 100 points in a day, but using a Strategy which is allowed only 2 wins and up to 20 points limit each, a user will only get 40 points maximum. So the number of trades allowed in a day makes a difference.
  
• Low, Medium or High Risk Strategies:
  Each client wishes different results. It depends on his or her investment, risk appetite etc... High Risk Strategies go for higher potential profit but also higher Stop loss values and would be allowed to trade often each day. Low Risk Strategies are the opposite. Medium are in between. Within many Groups of Strategies a user has to select which level among the 3 offered. If only one Strategy is to be run among the three levels of Risk provided, the Medium Risk should be considered.
  
  To better adapt a strategy to the present market movements (daily or monthly), a user can buy the right to change the parameters of a group of strategies as is offered on our website. The parameters are listed upon clicking on "Strategy Details". However, one needs to know the risks of doing such changes. Buying the "Tuner Software" would back test the changes of the parameters.
  

Selection Process

Be aware that you may change Group(s) of Strategies that you are renting at any time. We request two to three days to do the change. As an example, if you have been renting one Group such as Trend Limit and wish to change to Zentrum MACD, just send an email to sales@strategyland.com.sg requesting this change.

To select a strategy versus another, you may first decide if you wish to use conservative or aggressive parameters. To differentiate conservative from aggressive strategies, consider these parameters below:

• Number of losses allowed per day
• Total number of transactions per day
• Values of Profit Limit, Stop Loss and Auto Trailing Stop
• Conditions to Buy or Sell

As an example, a conservative strategy would be:-

• One loss allowed per day
• Up to 2 wins allowed per day
• Limited values in points for Limit and Stop Loss ( as an example equal to 2 to 4 times the transaction fee for that contract)
• The intent of these fully automated strategies is to get a profit of up to US$100 and lose up to US$50 per day (equivalent to a profit of up to US$2,200 per month max. and loss of up to US$1,100 max. per month.)

Note : Never will any of our fully automated strategies win or lose every single day. If a Strategy would lose too much, we would not offer it for lease.

As an example, an aggressive strategy would be:

• At least 5 losses allowed per day
• More than 10 wins allowed per day
• High values in points for Limit and Stop Loss
• The intent of these fully automated strategies is to get a profit of more than US$1,000 and lose up to US$250 per day (equivalent to a profit of at least US$22,000 per month max. and loss of a minimum of US$5,500 max. per month.)

• # wins allowed per day,
• # losses allowed per day,
• # total of transactions per day,

Exit Parameters :

• Profit Limit (for all possible transactions, if the strategy acts as a Trend versus values acting as a Swing or acting as both)
• Stop Loss (for all possible transactions, if the strategy acts as a Trend versus values acting as a Swing or acting as both)
• Value of both Auto Trailing Stop parameters

Time of Execution:

• At which the strategy will start
• At which the strategy will stop
• At which it will no longer take any position but wait for the closing of the day
• At which to analyze the market and decide for the next Buy or Sell

Buy and Sell Conditions:

The most critical period of a strategy is when it analyzes the market and decide to Buy or Sell on its own. The source code developed to do this function is the most valuable and remains the exclusive property of Strategyland Research or of the 3rd party having developed the code. Some Strategies are patented.
The Exit Style of a Strategy (Limit, Stop Loss and Auto Trailing Stop) are usually determined by the back testing results of a Strategy using our Tuner software. This back testing process may take many weeks while trying as many combinations of all parameters involved. The final set of parameters is picked up by us leveraging all winning amounts per set of parameters along with the number of transactions reached to achieve the wins over many years.
Strategies may be based on Predictive (using Technical Indicators) or Non Predictive data (getting inputs from live fundamentals).

• Specific Conditions set for the Buy and Sell orders ,
• Epsilon value and period of the analysis
• Which Technical Analysis indicator(s) is or are being used to decide to Buy or Sell.

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Main advantage of the Fully Automated Strategies :

• Each Strategy detects automatically if the market goes into a uptrend or a downtrend and adapt to each with Buy or Sell accordingly. A manual trader may not be able to watch all uptrends or downtrends and may lose opportunities with his Stop Loss becoming active when either happens in the opposite direction of his initial order. Fully Automated strategies run for the time of execution defined and catch all uptrends and downtrends during that time.

One disadvantage of Fully Automated Strategies :

• If a large uptrend happens in a day, and the Strategy has a low Profit value, the Strategy will only catch a portion of that uptrend. Same in case of a downtrend, would catch only a portion of the downtrend both for a profit.
  Example : let us assume the uptrend is 100 points within 2 hours. The Strategy has a Limit of 10 points and allows 5 wins. The time to buy is 5mn each time. Obviously this strategy would only catch 50 points or half of the uptrend with 10 transactions. Where a manual trader could catch all 100 points with 2 transactions.