I Was an Awful Trader Until This – You Can Benefit, Too By Jason Bodner, Editor, Quantum Edge Pro I was so bad when I began my career more than two decades ago that my boss openly took the opposite position for every trade I made. Even worse… He didn’t bother looking at the stock or doing any research. All he needed to know was that I made a trade, so he bet the other way. Talk about a blow to the ego. In my first three weeks, I made every mistake in the book… - Greedily chasing a stock that was ripping higher? Check.
- Buying a falling stock because I had a “gut feeling” it would turn around? Did that.
- Following the herd into a crowded trade? Yep, that too.
So much for dreams of a hotshot investing career. All my intuitions, gut instincts, and emotional swings took me in the wrong direction… and cost me money. I almost quit. In fact, I did quit trading for a time. I couldn’t bear the thought of losing anymore, so I went back to being a broker. I took orders by phone, and I placed trades for other people. Then one day, a big client requested that I track “unusual activity” in all 2,800 European stocks trading across all the exchanges. Track nearly 3,000 stocks? Are you kidding?! It was impossible to look at that many stocks all day every day, let alone try to spot unusual activity. I knew I needed help or I was going to fail. And that really would have been the end. Instead, it was the beginning. I turned to computers and designed a quantitative system that did a lot of the work a heck of a lot faster – and better – than I ever could manually. | Recommended Link | | | | We just posted a new recommendation. Keep in mind: You could have boosted the Netflix trade we issued to the public back in January to a 268% gain in 14 days. Our newest pick has a 93% history of rising by May 8 at a rate fast enough to double your money, if you were to make trades of this caliber again and again, which we’ll show you how to do. Click here for the ticker. |  | | Tech Changed Everything I didn’t even know how to code back then, but I was more than happy to figure it out if it would help. Did it ever! I realized that the human brain, as amazing as it is in so many ways, is no match for massive data analytical firepower. And given my early failures, I was thrilled to not rely on “gut instinct” that steered me wrong more often than not. The early results were outstanding. I didn’t know it at the time, but it was the beginning of a life-changing journey and a dramatic shift in my success as an investor. By that point, I was hooked. I sharpened the tool more and more. I poured more money into it. I beefed up the algorithms. I broke down all of their models and rules, did my own research and number crunching to find out what worked best, and then took the best of the best and threw out the rest to build my Quantum Edge system. It’s the same system that has worked so well for me personally, for clients of my institutional research firm, and for members of Quantum Edge Pro and TradeSmith Investment Report. My colleague Lucas Downey also uses it for TradeSmith’s Alpha Signals, which is currently available exclusively for TradeSmith Platinum members. Ongoing advancements give us far superior technology and algorithms than even just a decade or two ago. This made it easier to build a better and more reliable way to find the absolute best-of-the-best stocks to own. When I log on early each morning, my computers have already done more data retrieval and analysis than probably an entire brokerage firm. My system assigns a Quantum Score to roughly 5,500 stocks every single day – a single number that lets me know if each of those stocks is an opportunity, a danger, or just not going anywhere. I make a few additional clicks of the mouse, and I’m left with a targeted list of stocks with the critical ingredients that best forecast profits: - Outstanding fundamentals
- Strong technicals
- Big Money inflows spotted by our computers
I no longer need to fish in a massive ocean and hope to get a bite. I’m in a small pond full of exotic fish where I’m likely to snag a winner. Matching Wall Street’s Advantage By utilizing technology, you can spot key activity across a universe of stocks, all the while avoiding the emotional turmoil of investing decisions and the often-dangerous media noise. I remember very well the summer of 2018 when the market was throwing a tantrum as we were in the middle of a trade war. Sound familiar? The news had investors in a panic, saying we were looking at a mirror of the 1987 Black Monday crash. Investors had pulled $30 billion out of the markets in the prior month alone. But when I got the signals for The Trade Desk (TTD) in July, I was better able to look past all that outside noise and focus on the data. And it was worth it… 
Over the next few years, The Trade Desk exploded for as much as 1,100%. I still like the stock today, even after shares got hit following the latest earnings report. A lot of stocks have taken a beating recently, but TTD’s fundamentals are still super strong (with a superior 83.4 rating in my system). Lucas also likes it as a short-term trade in Alpha Signals as part of TradeSmith’s elite Platinum service. Anyone not using software to collect and analyze information in our world today is hopelessly outpaced by those who do. Wall Street uses its massive computing power to beat individual investors, but we can level the playing field. We can give ourselves a similar edge with data analytics, fast computers, and proven analysis. That’s the whole goal of my investing services. We can meet and even beat Wall Street at its own game, using technology-enabled superpowers to make big, reliable profits – over and over again. The right data analyzed the right way gives you the highest odds of making money, and the highest odds of outperforming the market. Through years of using this system and back testing it all the way to 1990, about 7 out of every 10 stocks it identifies were winners. Independent back testing by TradeSmith also showed that it beat the S&P 500 by 7-to-1. That’s how to beat Wall Street at its own game. And we’ll keep talking about it here in TradeSmith Daily. Talk soon, 
Jason Bodner
Editor, Quantum Edge Pro Note from Michael Salvatore, Editor, TradeSmith Daily: Yesterday, our CEO, Keith Kaplan, announced the details of the biggest-ever expansion to our business… Four powerhouse analysts are joining the TradeSmith business to deliver their best ideas to our subscribers. You already know Lucas Downey, a master of historical data, who’s a regular contributor here in TradeSmith Daily. He’s joined by 40-plus-year trading veteran Jeff Clark, who utilizes volatility and momentum for quick-hit, lower-risk trading… And Andy and Landon Swan, two brothers who created a powerful engine forspotting consumer trends early. You can watch a replay of Keith’s exciting announcements, and learn more about these four highly accomplished analysts, by clicking here. | 
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