Most traders can have unrealistic expectations from their systems. If the system makes a couple of losses, they loose interest and usually give up as the market is about to turn around and go their way.

A system is like any other business. Some years will be very good, and some years will be average. A smart trader, is a conservative trader, well capitalized, with a long term objective.

The ATS-3200 is a simple market driven system. The main indicator is a long term 11 week stochastic. Stochastics behave like moving averages. They work best with markets that trend for long periods of time. Therefore since a stochastic follows the trend, if the trend is long enough, the indicator will produce profits when followed correctly.

1. The long term stochastic to find the major trend, and an adaptive filter, to eliminate many whipsaw losing trades, due to minor changes in the stochastic.

2. A filtering system, made up of a number of algorithms that keep the system in a good trade and eliminate more whipsaw losing trades to increase the profits.

These are just the basic functions. A stochastic and a filter, nothing complicated, that will work with any market that trends.

However the system also has the "X" and "L" genetic algorithms. These algorithms have all been tested in real time. Since 1993 they have been successful in going short near market tops and long near market bottoms many times. In fact these algorithms have signalled a major top or a major bottom every year since 1993. Click here for details. The first "SELL" signal was generated on September 3, 1993.

The ATS-6400 works the same way as the ATS-3200 and you can perform these tests on the system also.