The Mechanical Day Trader

DayRaider Upgrade 7-15

2009-07-15T10:42:00.002-04:00

Please update your Tradestation installation as per 7-15 programs. There is so much indicator automation built in to the 7-15 programs, training movies should not be necessary. Meet up with the developer for training after installation after the Dow trading session has closed for the day.

Use the Dow Cash tick chart to confirm Dow Behaviors and the One Minute Methodology (pictured above) to give you the confidence to enter the futures market.

GOOD TRADING!

Millions of Hits / Revenge Is SO Sweet!

2009-07-11T12:34:00.002-04:00

DayRaider Upgrade Installation Notes

2009-07-02T13:08:00.009-04:00

DayRaider Upgrade July 15th

As before, there are 3 Tradestation charts,
1] Dow Cash tick chart
2] Dow Futures show chart
3] Dow Futures DayRaider Upgrade chart..this replaces the DayRaider 2.2 trading rules

The buy trading rules are greatly simplified coequal or rising green line + uptrend = buy
The sell trading rules are greatly simplified coequal or descending red line + "top" = sell

All trade entries require you to determine what condition of the market is (consult the TREND II program & Dow Cash] ...then...

1] a corresponding mechanical trade on the one minute Dow Cash chart (Module II)
2] 2 or more Dow Behaviors (time, price, and/or trend)
3] one of the 4 reversal principles as taught in the Fundamentals and also in Module I/II

Most trades will also conform to the above critieria on the Tradestation Dow Cash chart - you can find the Dow Behaviors on that chart before entering (price, time, trend). Paper trading the Dow Cash a few days before live trading is very beneficial, since the Dow always reverses exactly at predetermined Dow Behaviors or Institutional Stops.

Please identify Uptrends, Uptrend Ends, and the Trading Range that follows; opposite procedure for Downtrends. Correlate the Dow Behaviors to the beginning and end of each market condition (as much as possible).

GOOD TRADING! Meet up with me after trading hours daily to go over any questions or issues after your installation is completed!

DayRaider Upgrade ~ Short Entry ~

2009-07-01T12:45:00.003-04:00

Just follow the methodology...Ron saw this the very first day that the DayRaider Upgrade was installed...wow!

Is This A Scam? (Do Your Homework Ken...)

2009-06-09T07:48:00.000-04:00

Hey, Ken, if you put the time into doing your homework instead of writing a blog ranting about how you feel cheated, you would definitely be ahead of the game. See the email below that I sent February, 2009 notifying Ken he was scamming me.

For a guy that only paid $1,200 for a special deal because he was broke and this was his last chance at making a go at daytrading, Ken received all the materials and homework and streaming videos needed to learn how the Mini Dow is manipulated, how institutional tops are created and retraced and how to follow 2 or 3 trade rules and take "Kindergarten Trades" and make a nice living the rest of your life.

Ken didn't want to accept ANY responsibility for learning anything. What I teach is a METHOD. Like developing good penmanship or riding a bicycle. It takes study and practice.

Once you start doing the homework, that's where the unlimited support comes in. The student can contact me every day for a meeting to go over homework issues and concepts - it usually takes 2 to 3 weeks to go through the training, then you are ready to apply the mechanical concepts to a live chart. It usually takes people YEARS to get this far - you've accomplished this in 2 or 3 weeks. Not bad!

Within 90 days there is no excuse - you should be making a nice 6 figure living. I even provide a free paper trading/charting engine that has the best trading pad in the industry, with brackets, scale in/scale out of multi-contract positions. Unlimited Support is provided - but ya gotta apply what is taught and show me your homework.

The methodology of trading these reversals can be backtested days, weeks, years and is proven correct every day. None of this is hard..but if you're from California (like Ken) and somebody does you a favor by cutting the price in half.... (see paypal transaction below) it really is too much to accept responsibility for learning a technical trading method. Maybe Arnold, Governor of Kalifornia has a special welfare program for you Ken. Hurry on down to the Kalifornia welfare office and fill out a form!

To: Ken Cassorla

From: Stuart Kidney, MechanicalTrader.com

RE: Failure to Perform

Ken Casorla became a DayRaider subscriber on January 15, 2009. To date, subscriber Cassorla has not done required homework as specified in Training Module I, Module II, or Module III. Doing this homework demonstrates proficiency in finding trade reversals realtime and taking the requisite long or short entry in DayRaider.

The One Minute Methodology, Yesterday's Trade and RHS, DT, DB, HS trades shown in Module III (and subsequent training videos) can be replicated real time. The "Kindergarten Trades" are mechanical, which have been documented for the past 3 weeks. The Kindergarten Trade rules are extremely simple and require the subscriber to have successfully completed Module I, Module II homework and understand Module III, all of which has been done by countless subscribers, except you.

I have been consistent with ALL subscribers and have documented EVERYTHING that is specified in the www.MechanicalTrader.com Shopping Cart.

You stated today that you want me to trade with you "realtime". That's not what this subscription is about, nowhwere is that documented that I provide that service. It is about training and providing for you mechanical trading tools and knowledge that should lead you to taking low risk, known profit objective trades a dozen or more times per day. You need to KNOW the information I disseminate, UNDERSTAND what is taught by completing the Module I, and Module II homework. After understanding and replicating trades in the past, you will then acquire the skill to make realtime trading decisions using the the Paper Trading software provided in Module III training.

Unless you know this information I present, realtime trading would be of no value to you anyway, since you don't know and are UNWILLING TO LEARN how and why Institutions reverse positions.

Attached, find documentation showing 3,500 Mini Dow Points of trading profits following the simple Kindergarten Trade Rules and the Dow Behaviors of Price and Time to guide the subscriber as to WHEN to exit their profitable trade for maximum profit.

Ken, you have been TOTALLY UNWILLING to follow any learning path - I have dispensed "diamonds" of knowledge that can used to take many profitable trades in the Mini Dow and the tools you have access to as a subscriber prove it day in and day out. That's why was promised in my website and shopping cart and that is what is clearly delivered.

A realtime trading advisor is not what was sold, not what was represented by me and not what you agreed to. Period.

Stuart D. Kidney

Services Offered

2009-06-06T10:42:00.005-04:00

Request a One on One webinar with MechanicalTrader.com via email. Audio communication via Skype or USA telephone number, webinar via GoToMeeting (no account needed, you will use MechanicalTrader.com's account)

The training and charting services will be based around the DayRaider Upgrade. New Clients will be only offered the DayRaider Upgrade platform, not the DayRaider 2.2 platform.

For a prospective subscriber to the DayRaider Upgrade, there are three $1,500 payments required, as training progresses. The Goal of training is for the subscriber to yield 100+ Mini-Dow points per day, every day within the first 6 months of training. Full time subscribers should average more than this, particularly if you are open to trading starting at 8 am ET The Methdology and indicators are guaranteed to capture the key reversals of the One Minute Methodology. Extensive backtesting of all concepts and trading rules is available to current and new subscribers.

$1,500 PayPal Invoice for Fundamentals of Futures Trading
...................how to read a chart, the 3 technical causes of all reversals down and up (total of 6)
$1,500 PayPal Invoice for Module I and Module II Training
...................learn Institutional Trading, Dow Behaviors, Kindergarten Trades & One Minute
Methodology
$1,500 PayPal Invoice for 6 months of DayRaider Upgrade indicators & support
(Tradestation platform required; subscription or trading account required)

AFTER 6 MONTHS CONTINUE SUBSCRIBING TO THE DAYRAIDER UPGRADE

$2,250 PayPal Invoice for quarterly DayRaider Upgrade indicators & support after the initial 6 month subscription concludes. Price of the indicators & support rise to $750 per month after the introductory period and must be paid quarterly.

State of the Art training videos and clear documentation are given to maximize your self-paced learning. Subscribers have access to the MechanicalTrader.com FTP Server to download the training videos and resources. Training videos are in Windows Media format. Unlimited support during the time period for one on one consultation.

For Prospective Clients, please send an email to arrange a webinar presentation of the Tradestation platform with the DayRaider Upgrade. A limited number of new clients will be taken per month, so that training and support quality will remain high for each and every subscriber.

Tradestation New Account Sign Up
Tradestation Subscription $259 per month, no brokerage account needed. Pro Rata billing for
mid-month startup)

REAL Football !

2009-06-05T17:36:00.000-04:00

Trade Journal Summary

2009-05-18T10:07:00.011-04:00

A YTD Spreadsheet of all DayRaider 2.2 trades will be posted in this thread. Specific day's trading will be broken out in a separate daily recap.

Globex Game May 13th

2009-05-13T08:52:00.005-04:00

Fundamentals of Futures Trading Graduates recognize this chart pattern (one of three) that move the market south - DayRaider 2.21 features tight money management on the short, the 8:30 ET announcement does the rest! (charts reflect Central Time Zone -1 New York).

DayRaider 2.21 Captures Market Opens & Globex

2009-05-12T11:00:00.005-04:00

Subscriber 'Pete' continues to papertrade DayRaider 2.21 and continues to post impressive results. He's up $880 (and still growing) about 50 minutes after market open. Keep it up Pete!

DayRaider 2.21 Subscriber Gains Confidence

2009-04-29T07:35:00.003-04:00

After installing DayRaider 2.21, it takes a few weeks to understand market opens (the most complex part of daytrading) - the automation of DayRaider 2.21 makes things very understandable and the learning curve is pretty short. Subscribers start making money on the Kindergarten Trades first, then learn more as time goes on. Copy of April 28th's testimonial below with the graphic of his winning trades.

Stuart No problem - the graphic is attached in higher quality format. As of now, I am building my confidence with the Kindergarten Trades, the homework really helped me to clear things up in my own mind and the videos are a real help too. As advised I am building up a 'library' of gaps and already have a lot more confidence of the move that will be made at the open. Prior to yesterdays cash open, there was a long signal in DayRaider and I was pretty confident that the futures would rise on the open, and that the DOW cash would drop on the open and reverse shortly afterwards to go on to make new highs along with the futures. I went in with 2 contracts and came out of it with 77 points. I would have actually got more but I did a 'panic sell' half way through, kicked myself & I got in at the next retracement according to DayRaider & hit the 77 points. I think a few more weeks and I'll be trading this a lot more 'cleanly' and confidently. As you mentioned, my entries will be a little messy at first and I would certainly say that is the case. Initially, the indicators looked quite intimidating but there really isn't that much there and they aren't all needed at the same time, it's just a matter of putting in the screen time whilst the market is doing it's thing. I am sure I will have plenty of questions for you down the line but right now, with the Kindergarten trades, I am doing OK. Cheers Pete

Typical DayTrader That Doesn't Use DayRaider 2.2

2009-04-18T18:41:00.009-04:00

SMASHMOUTH TRADING if you don't complete Module I, Module II, and Kindergarten Trading Rules TRAINING homework, a similar result is guaranteed. LOL

Subscribers that don't wait for 'positive deviation' plus 2 Dow Behaviors before entering Long positions...

Subscribers that don't wait for 'negative deviation' plus 2 Dow Behaviors before entering Short postions....

Subscribers that don't wait for 'Trend Ends' (1st occurrence in 65 minutes or 2nd occurrence after 65 minutes) and 2 Dow Behaviors before exiting all Long positions on Uptrends (Module I Page 5)....

a similar SMASHMOUTH result is guaranteed

The Globex Game

2009-04-18T08:35:00.007-04:00

DayRaider subscribers play the Globex Game every morning (for us Yanks)...The two legal trades in the above charts are the #DOWN and the subsequent #RDOWN....technical trades all the way since the proprietary OVERBOUGHT condition has ended according to DayRaider 2.2 ...Using the three main Dow Behaviors (proprietary) control your entry, risk and profit objective(s).

This is a snapshot of April 14, 2009, rather routine most every day....The profit objective on the #DOWN (you're short) is 80+ mini dow points, or 80% ROI on daytraders margin ($500). The trade is exited technically but the reversal price should occur at a known Dow Behavior "time". The Mini Dow runs on a regular daily 'time' schedule...

Knowing the basics, the entry and exit are 100% technical, no discretion on entry, some discretion on exit.

BTW, the market hit the 100 point objective (see the colored range of points in the top graphic) after the Dow Cash opened; traders reversed and went long and rode the market up 100+ points based on Yesterday's Trade (proprietary) and stayed long as the One Minute Methodology rules (proprietary) advise.

The Mechanical Day Trader

...Just Do It.....

2009-04-17T09:35:00.006-04:00

April 17th 2009 testimonial post at T2W quoted below (as displayed above - editor has added paragraph breaks to ease eyestrain):
Day Raider Review

I thought I would write a review as I feel it is warranted to make known how good this method is. I said method not SYSTEM. As a fulltime trader, I am continually looking to improve my trading arsenal with new methods and markets and I have been drawn recently to futures from US Stocks because:

Focusing on one instrument day in day out is less complicated and more productive. I’d rather be a master of one than a jack of all trades.
Each individual stock has it's own characteristics of price movement and it's character can change from day to day, making it either a good or bad choice to trade at any given time.
Market liquidity. Futures are always liquid enough. Market orders are instant. No strange fills or jumps in price.
Share size allocation easier
Spreads remain constant and are not jumping about
No risk of random company news
Less stressful – finding and juggling stocks, analysing the futures, analysing sectors
No market maker games
No routing decisions
Taxes less complicated

The list goes on…..

My due diligence of mentors led me to a shortlist of three top futures traders/trainers. Stuart came out on tops after an initial chat as the other 2 S&P traders focussed more on scalping the order book with big size. This did not appeal to me, but Stuart’s method of catching every reversal and staying in the trend for 90% suited me.

Stuart knows the Dow like the back of his hand after 12years watching and trading the same market day in day out. Potential students must be serious about trading and earning v.good money as Stuart does not want time wasters. The most important part of Stuart is his teaching and his passion of how good the method is, he literally has it cracked! What he describes is, in my eyes, complex and extremely technical but he makes sure you don't move onto the next part until it is fully understood.

You do have to do your homework and start thinking for yourself and not just having it handed to you on a plate. Some people would disagree with this, but in my experience, a lazy trader who cant think for themselves or take the initiative and back test the theory, will IMO not be successful. It does take 3-4 weeks to memorize and back test the theory.

Stuarts method starts at the ground roots, how to read a chart, even this opened my eyes, then you learn about the reversals specific to the Dow. Then you learn about institutional mechanical systems and 5 day money flow and where they take positions to hold overnight. Yes you can even trade with the institutions overnight. Then you learn to identify every reversal that happens, you can describe a whole days worth of trading and explain why it reversed. Lastly there are behaviors that are only exhibited by the Dow. After you’ve worked out if the mechanicals are long or short, you wait for your reversal rule, which has to coincide with 2+ Dow behaviors, then you learn about how to take low risk entries in Dayraider.

Dayraider has proprietary indicators that graphically display optimum entry and exit points. It is not a signal system, be careful here, it is a methodology that still requires some discretion and judgment. The learning materials are awesome, there are many streaming videos and you have unlimited support for a whole year, none of this 1-2 months support that some mentors offer, you can just skype Stuart whenever which is really handy.

I used to believe that the indices had no movement, well if you catch every reversal which I am 70% there, then you got yourself, 10-18 low risk reversals ranging from 30-200 points each. Yesterday we had a 100 point downtrend, with 2 20-30 point pullbacks, then a 100 point uptrend with 3 20-30 point pullbacks. By my calculations that’s 350 points average. Already this week, 3 days, I have made 800+ points.

Regards
Lee

DayRaider 2.2 Captures Key Reversals Every Day

2009-03-06T07:41:00.009-05:00

New, powerful trading tools are included in this new release - 99% (Nobody can say 100% but ya know what I mean, right?) wins are plotted when the OVERSOLD condition will absolutely end [prices will rise substantially] or when the OVERBOUGHT condition will end [prices will fall substantially]. These tools will correlate 99% of the time with the One Minute Methodology, so there is nothing new to learn, just rock solid confirmation of what your net trading position will be.

Testimonials From Subscribers

2009-01-07T20:08:00.004-05:00

(click image above to enlarge)

Richard M. netted 100 MiniDow points ($5 per point) in one trade early in the morning...There were 5 more hours left to trade BTW....

Ferrari vs Dodge Hemi Challenger

2008-12-27T18:54:00.005-05:00

PLUG IN the surround sound speakers, crank up the bass...160 mph in a heartbeat...Dodge Challenger gets on the tail of Ferrari @ 2:30 - doors blown off Ferrari @ 5:50...listen to that HEMI ..American Ingeniuty crushes Italian Finesse!

500+ Horsepower - Not Your Typical Subaru

2008-11-25T19:13:00.004-05:00

...did he burn up 4 sets of tires in 4 minutes?...I THINK so! More Videos of Ken Block racing

Contact Us

2008-05-22T13:02:00.000-04:00

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