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Original Turtle Trader Russell Sands Delivers Nightly Signals for Trading the Turtle Trading Concepts
 


 
  The eHotline is a nightly email that contains a summary of the Turtle Systems daily performance and most importantly the entry and exit stops for open trades and entry prices for new trades based on the Turtle Trading Methodology

We do the work for you in the 43 markets we trade!

As we have clients that trade the entire spectrum of portfolio sizes, the nightly orders are generated based on a $1,000,000 model account size, automatically and mechanically done for you with our well known and popularly used TradeStation software program.

Depending on your account size you simply have to adjust the markets you trade and how many contracts to trade in those markets according to the Turtle Trading Concepts Russell has taught you. The entry signals and exits will be the same no matter the number of contracts you actually trade.

With the Turtle Trading eHotline you get:

  1. A summary of the current positions of the 43 markets we trade according to the Turtle Trading System
  2. The exit stops for all open positions
  3. New entry orders for all flat positions (both buy and sell) and reversal entry orders for our open positions
  4. Portfolio recommendations for various account sizes
  5. These orders emailed to you nightly in a convenient PDF format
  6. Members only online access to the archives of these entry orders in both PDF and Excel format
  7. Members only online access to weekly trade summaries
  8. Members only online access to monthly and annual Strategy performance reports
  9. Occasional "special" exclusive discretionary trading recommendations that are personally chosen by Russell.
  10. Access to Russell for Trading questions regarding the Turtle System
  11. Exclusive members only pricing on Russell's Products
  12. Special products ONLY available to eHotline subscribers!

Futures trading involves substantial risk, and is not suitable for all investors.

Shown Below is how our Futures Trading system has performed in the past drawn from the Trade Station Platform

Because these charts are the results of trading signals generated in the Trade Station Platform rather than orders placed in an actual account, the data and charts are to be deemed hypothetical in nature.

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The first two charts below are drawn from a simulated account trading all 43 markets we generate signals for with position sizing and risk always calculated from a hypothetical constant One Million Dollar trading account. This hypothetical account is the baseline account from which we generate our nightly orders.

They are a composite of the daily equity gain or loss of each markets assuming each trade was executed at the exact prices we sent in our nightly orders.

As stated above, the following three charts do not reflect any actual trading account whether hypothetical or real, and thus do not assume any trading fees or commissions. Rather, they are simply daily profit or loss moves for every position our system generates at the position size we recommend for a one million dollar account at each trade's inception. As such, there are no profits to be reinvested or distributed, and every hypothetical trade (as listed on our nightly orders) we track the daily profit or loss of is calculated on taking the initial position size (number of contracts for each market) based on a constant $1,000,000 account.

2008

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2007

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The following is a composite chart generated by taking the annual results as shown above for 2007 and 2008, for each year since 1990. Again, this was generated with the Trade Station platform and not an actual trading account and drawn from a simulated account trading all 43 markets we generate signals for with position sizing and risk always calculated from a hypothetical constant One Million Dollar trading account.

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So as you can see from above, our system as a whole has performed admirably in the past. These results are not from any one actual trading account, and individual accounts results have varied, but they are indicative of how our system has performed in the past.

And of course, Past performance, whether actual or indicated by simulated historical tests of strategies, is not indicative of future results

Now these results based on the constant $1,000,000 account are fine and dandy you may say, but what about smaller accounts who cannot trade all 43 markets based with position sizing and risk based on a simulated account. Also what about accounts who's equity has run ups and drawdowns?

With the largest accounts they can still follow the one million dollar base and position size appropriate to their changing equity fluctuations, but for the smaller accounts we have the following recommended portfolios.

Recommended Portfolios for Turtle Trading System Revised June 2008


$10k to $19k Account Size (5 Markets)

Corn
Eurodollars
Lean Hogs
Lumber
Sugar


$20k to $29k Account Size (8 Markets)

Corn
Dow Jones (mini)
Eurocurrency (mini)
Eurodollars
Lean Hogs
Lumber
Orange Juice
Sugar

 

$30k to $39k Account Size (12 Markets)

Bean Oil
Canadian Dollar
Corn
Crude Oil (mini)
Euro Currency (mini)
Feeder Cattle
Five Year 2otes
Live Hogs
Lumber
Orange Juice
Sugar
S&P (mini)

$40k to $49k Account Size (15 Markets)

Canadian Dollar
Corn
Crude Oil (mini)
Eurodollar
Feeder Cattle
Gold
Japanese Yen (mini)
Lean Hogs
Lumber
Orange Juice
Soybeans
Sugar
Swiss Franc
Ten Year 2otes
S&P (mini)

Note: The smaller accounts under $50,000 should always trade just one contract in each of the markets listed.

Once the account balance is above $50,000 in equity, it becomes more efficient to begin trading multiple contracts in certain markets according to the money management formulas outlined in the course materials.
This is done by calculating position sizes using appropriate “N” for each market.

Shown Below are how these hypothetical model portfolios performed in 2008

Because these charts are the results of trading signals generated in the Trade Station Platform rather than orders placed in an actual account, the data and charts are to be deemed hypothetical in nature.

Please Click Here to Read This Important Disclaimer Regarding Hypothetical Results

These results are drawn from a simulated account trading one contract per market based on the above listed portfolios

As stated above, the following four charts do not reflect any actual trading account whether hypothetical or real, and thus do not assume any trading fees or commissions.  Rather, they are simply daily profit or loss moves for every position our system generates assuming one contract per market per our recommended portfolios above.  As such, there are no profits to be reinvested or distributed, and every hypothetical trade (as listed on our nightly orders) we track the daily profit or loss of is calculated based on one contract per market

The results presented are only representative of the performance of the system during 2008.  A system's performance during other time periods not shown may be more or less profitable, or even unprofitable.

10-19

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20-29

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30-39

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40-49

Past performance, whether actual or indicated by simulated historical tests of strategies, is not indicative of future results.

HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS HAVE MANY INHERENT LIMITATIONS, SOME OF WHICH ARE DESCRIBED BELOW. NO REPRESENTATION IS BEING MADE THAT ANY ACCOUNT WILL OR IS LIKELY TO ACHIEVE PROFITS OR LOSSES SIMILAR TO THOSE SHOWN. IN FACT, THERE ARE FREQUENTLY SHARP DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS AND THE ACTUAL RESULTS SUBSEQUENTLY ACHIEVED BY ANY PARTICULAR TRADING PROGRAM.


ONE OF THE LIMITATIONS OF HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS IS THAT THEY ARE GENERALLY PREPARED WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT. IN ADDITION, HYPOTHETICAL TRADING DOES NOT INVOLVE FINANCIAL RISK, AND NO HYPOTHETICAL TRADING RECORD CAN COMPLETELY ACCOUNT FOR THE IMPACT OF FINANCIAL RISK IN ACTUAL TRADING. FOR EXAMPLE, THE ABILITY TO WITHSTAND LOSSES OR TO ADHERE TO A PARTICULAR TRADING PROGRAM IN SPITE OF TRADING LOSSES ARE MATERIAL POINTS WHICH CAN ALSO ADVERSELY AFFECT ACTUAL TRADING RESULTS. THERE ARE NUMEROUS OTHER FACTORS RELATED TO THE MARKETS IN GENERAL OR TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ANY SPECIFIC TRADING PROGRAM WHICH CANNOT BE FULLY ACCOUNTED FOR IN THE PREPARATION OF HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS AND ALL OF WHICH CAN ADVERSELY AFFECT ACTUAL TRADING RESULTS.

"Neither TradeStation Technologies nor any of its affiliates has reviewed, certified, endorsed, approved, disapproved or recommended, and neither does or will review, certify, endorse, approve, disapprove or recommend, any trading software tool that is designed to be compatible with the TradeStation Open Platform."

 

 

 

 

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