Volume 1, Number 8 April 4, 2006 Archives
Volume 1, Number 8 April
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2006
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Welcome to "BioComp
Investors & Traders" A newsletter / journal for financially interested customers and friends.
Dakota is "Fun" and "Addictive..." Back before Dakota was ever publicly known, we had an internal pre-beta prototype here inside BioComp. It was circulated to staff to get first impressions. Immediately the response was "Oh,... this is different! I like this... there's something special about it. I'm not sure what." Since then our staff cannot put down Dakota. Every day they run Dakota over and over, not just as a part of their job, but personally. Time has passed and the other day I was talking to one of our good customers on the phone. In the course of the conversation, he pauses... He hesitates... Then says, "I have to tell you something... I like Dakota. Of all the trading software packages, Dakota is different. It's, well, fun. ... and, um, a bit addictive." We also see this in the active Dakota community. Never before has our server been so busy. Nearly every moment of every day users are running Dakota, contributing to the Knowledge Base (more than 10,000 contributions already). Dakota users are actively creative... building 100's of bots. And our discussion group been busy. Back in October, November and December, we had 10's of postings each month. Now we have hundreds per month. As I see it, Dakota has a number of unique facets that makes it not just interesting, but addictively fun. First, Dakota opens up your creativity with the built-in adaptive trading bots and stops and ones that you can write. This gives you a strong element of involvement and a nice balance between adaptive intelligence and trading control. Second, when you push the "Go" button, Dakota unfolds the bars of security data, streaming it by. You watch as prices move, signals rise and fall, trades are executed and equity climbs, walks or declines, just as though it were real-time data. This mesmerizing walk-forward out-of-sample trading process is as though you were actually trading in "hyper-time" and you watch to see your creativity perform. Third, Dakota gives you performance, while hypothetical, which is about as close to the truth that you are going to get without actually trading. Dakota does not give you back-fitted brittle systems that look suspiciously too good. You see the good, the bad and the ugly. So, when you create good value in Dakota, you are rewarded with an attractive equity curve that provides you greater confidence going forward. Me? Yes, I run Dakota a lot, myself. I'm a Dakota
Video Swarms: Do The Swarms In the Videos Really Work? I took some time recently to make sure that Dakota makes money, at least hypothetically, going forward in "out-of-sample out-of-sample" (trading beyond the date that the swarms were built and saved). Not all the swarms I have are exactly the ones in the videos because I didn't necessarily save the exact ones when I made the videos and I also have a now-hard-diskless dead laptop on my bookshelf that was used to create some of them, so some were re-created shortly after their videos were made, but they were made exactly the same way. Here's the saved equity, the equity as of March 29th and their percent gain:
This is not meant to be an authoritative accounting and all results are hypothetical, but we can see that Dakota's adaptive technologies continued to make money and shows that the swarms I built and put on display continue to work. You can see the smaller % gainers are generally the more recently created ones.
April 10th Dakota Price Increase In line with the value we have added, we will be once again increasing Dakota's price Monday, April 10th. If you are interested in getting involved, I suggestion you do so now. Up to the 10th, the prices are:
Long-time customers immediately recognize that the Sponsor level is an excellent deal. Dakota orders can be placed on-line at: http://www.biocompsystems.com/store/financial/index.htm Long time BioComp Customer? You may automatically receive a Silver (10%), Gold (15%) or Platinum (25%) Preferred Customer Discount when we process your order. Read more about our Preferred Customer Program. We honor and respect our customers and the value we've shared together over the years.
An Addition to the Customer Gallery Customer David from San Antonio, Texas, provides us with another super S&P500 futures example in the Gallery of Customer Successes. It is similar to his earlier Gallery entry, but this time he's getting signals today for two (2) days in advance (a new Dakota feature). He captures an even greater hypothetical 2,132 point gain over 10 years on the S&P500 futures compared to a buy and hold of 645 points. With 62% winning trades, he has an equity curve straightness of 96%. Results are hypothetical, but since this is out-of-sample paper trading, it is very good. In the Knowledge Base in the last few days, we also see customer successes on...
Now, not all results are necessarily reproducible, your results may vary, principally due to differences in data or Dakota settings, but the Knowledge Base feature of Dakota has most of the details of how these users did it.
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purposes only. The information contained in this document represents the
current view of BioComp Systems on the material discussed as of the date of publication. Materials
written should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of
BioComp and BioComp cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information
presented after the date of publication. INFORMATION PROVIDED
IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND FREEDOM FROM
INFRINGEMENT. Statements of equity performance
are
hypothetical and have not been substantiated by records of actual trading.
Hypothetical or simulated performance results have certain inherent
limitations. Unlike an actual performance record, simulated results do not
represent actual trading. Also, since the trades have not actually
been executed, the results may have under- or over-compensated for the
impact, if any, of certain market factors, such as lack of liquidity.
Simulated trading programs in general are also subject to the fact that
they are designed with the benefit of hindsight. No representation is
being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses
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