The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

We will be showing a video which should be of interest to the group. It is entitled “The Five Most Instructive Lessons of Commodity Trading”. Additionally, George M. will present High Probability Change in Trend Times. Finally, we will close with an open discussion of trading topics of interest.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Kevin F. will give a comprehensive presentation on indicators. Time permitting, Kevin will discuss the following: ModHA (paint bar study from the forums that uses Heikin Ashki), TSID (simple hybrid of TSI that is faster with a predictive quality to it, AD Line/AD Ratio (combined by Kevin for day trading), Jan Arps Universal Swing Tool, Use of $TICK, $TRIN & $VXO.X for day trading @ES & @ER2, and Levels (using the previous day HLC, current day H/L/MidRange, and Floor Trader Pivots). Any topics not discussed will be re-scheduled for a future meeting. Time permitting, George M. will present his favorite reversal pattern. Also, if we can obtain a connection to the internet, Steve J. (Progster) may give a presentation on a new product he has developed that allows traders to enter the market manually in Tradestation, and then exit automatically using a strategy. Details about the product may be found here: http://www.sacred-chao.net/purpleunity/Strategies/Manual%20Entry%20Automation.htm .

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, July 17, 2005 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at WHITE OAK COMMUNITY LIBRARY. Directions/details can be found here: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/Apps/Libraries/branchinfo/wo.asp.

Agenda:

Pete H. will give a presentation on “Use of a TradeStation Based Managed Account/Trading System”.

George M. will be leading a discussion on “Logical Profit Objectives/Exits.”

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

As a result of our agenda discussion at the May meeting, the following presentations have been scheduled for June: Suri D. will speak on one of his indicators in his Suri Tools package, Rick B. will speak on trading futures off the cash indexes, and Frank B. (if available) will speak on functions relative to “pass by value” versus “pass by reference” parameters. Additionally, George M. will present 2 items from May that were bypassed due to time constraints – A TASC article comparing Blau’s True Strength Index to Stochastics and the AscTrend indicators from AbleSys (http://www.wintick.com/6_0/home.asp).

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

We have an interesting agenda this month, encompassing a variety of trading topics and interests. We will have a brief review of last month’s presentation by Dean Hoffman, including a discussion of a recent research project completed after our last meeting. In addition, the results of Dean’s systems for the last 10 years on a set portfolio will be examined. Secondly, a recent article in TASC entitled “Can the True Strength Index take the subjective guesswork out of stochastics?” will be discussed, including a look at indicator that was featured. Thirdly, George M. will lead a discussion on the AscTrend indicators from AbleSys (http://www.wintick.com/6_0/home.asp). Finally, we will hold an open discussion on the very significant upgrade of TradeStation (version 8.1) which will be led by some of our more experienced members. It should be a meeting packed with good trading ideas and dialogue!

WTSUG SPEAKERS AT THE 2005 TRADESTATION WORLD CONFERENCE: We are pleased to note that we have two WTSUG members currently scheduled for speaking at TradeStation World 2005. Bob G. (Goose) will be conducting a Community Panel Discussion and Steve J. (Progster) will be presenting the Darvas Method. Congrats to Bob and Steve!

2005 TRADESTATION WORLD CONFERENCE AND EXPO: The 2005 TSW is scheduled for September 29 – October 2, 2005 in Las Vegas at the Venetian hotel. Details at www.tradestationworld.com.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Featured presentation by Dean Hoffman, Strategic Trading Systems, www.traderstech.net. Dean Hoffman is both the President and founder of Strategic Trading Systems Inc. as well as the President and founder of Hoffman Asset Management, Inc. (a money management firm). He holds a commodity license and is also registered as a Commodity Trading Advisor with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). In addition to his background in computer science at Penn State University, he has over 16 years of experience in the futures industry. You will learn during his presentation how to evaluate trading systems and various money management strategies. Mr. Hoffman will discuss how to build non-optimized (non curve-fitted) systems trading across small and large portfolios. He will also discuss money management strategies and position sizing approaches appropriate for account capital. In addition, you will learn about the Trading Recipes (TM) software created to give traders the ability to learn, simulate, and manage the job of portfolio trading. Mr. Hoffman will also review the Monte Carlo (TM) simulation, which generates values for uncertain variables to simulate a model’s future expectation.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Member Bob G. will spend at least an hour discussing the new features in TradeStation 8.1 (currently being rolled out). Member Rick B. will be discussing the merits of Dynamic Zones, and time allowing, member Pete H. will provide an update to his earlier presentation (fall of 2004) on TCI.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

FEBRUARY SPEAKER: Our guest speaker will be WTSUG member Suri Duddella, CEO of www.siXer.com. Suri’s company specializes in financial market analysis, modeling, and other development technologies. He has been featured in Barron’s, Forbes, Newsweek, Active Trader, Stocks & Commodities, and has appeared on numerous television and radio shows. His website was ranked as the “Best of the Web” by Forbes in 2000, 2001 and 2002. For the past 10 years, he has also been a successful private trader and investor using his proprietary financial analysis.

Recap:

George M. opened the meeting, advising the group of his desire to remain our leader, in conjunction with Scott H. who will serve in a back-up capacity (either George or Scott will attend the meetings and serve as moderator). George also initiated a discussion of changing the meeting start time from 7:00 pm to 7:30 pm to accommodate those commuting in heavy traffic. The group decided to leave the starting time at 7:00 pm.

George also announced the winner of the 2004 WTSUG Achievement Award for the member providing the greatest service to the group during the past year. Our congrats go to Progster for his numerous contributions to the group during 2004. A job well done, Steve!

The group also thanked George for his continued support to the group despite the significant personal challenges currently facing his family. Our hats go off to George for his continued involvement in WTSUG as our leader!

FEB PRESENTATION BY SURI DUDELLA: The majority of the meeting was devoted to the presentation by Suri Dudella in which he discussed his pattern-based trading techniques in significant detail. We thank Suri for the disclosure of his trading methodologies and for the level of detail in his discussion. It was an awesome presentation!

Suri also advised that he is conducting a full-day seminar on these (and more) of his strategies on April 2 in Arlington, VA. The cost for the seminar and materials (including an approx. 300 pg manual) is $295.00. Check his web-site at www.sixer.com for details.

Suri is offering a $30 discount to WTSUG members for annual membership to sixer.com (details can be found at www.sixer.com/special1122.cfm). This website provides a sophisticated screening capability of stocks, equities and indices and has been nominated as “Best of the Web” by Forbes for several consecutive years as well as other awards from Barrons, Newsweek and other organizations.

He also mentioned a nifty money management Trading Planner that is available for free on his second web site (www.dowemini.com). This planner can help traders to realistically determine if their trading methodologies and market of choice will generate adequate trading income. The algorithm on which this is based is complicated, and the planner is clearly worth a look. You can find it at http://dowemini.com/index.cfm?Showtemp=s/dailyPlanner.cfm.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

GUEST SPEAKER: Rob Keener of Keener Capital Management (http://keenercapital.com) will be speaking on “A Multi-Strategy Approach to Day Trading Stock Indexes.” A quick video recap of trade signals generated by his systems (Shockwave, Builder and Gorilla) can be viewed at http://www.keenercapital.com/recap/.

MEETING AGENDA:
7:00 – 7:20 pm—Group business & announcements
7:20 – 8:30 pm—Rob Keener
8:30 – 8:45 pm—Break
8:45 – 10:00 pm—Rob Keener.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Davis Libary of Montgomery County, 6400 Democracy Blvd., Bethesda, MD 20817.

Agenda:

Our last meeting for the year is planned for Wednesday, December 8, 2004, at the Montgomery County, Maryland, Davis Library — note location change for this meeting only.

We will have a full agenda with a presentation by Progster on his Darvas Box indicator and strategy. We also will hear from our TS Beta testers on the enhancements featured in TS 8.1.

This being our final meeting for 2004, presents an ideal time to review the pros & cons of our 2004 meetings, as well as discussion of new ideas, suggestions, format, etc. and to elect new officers for 2005.