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The one stop Upperman
shop for professional futures traders.
Our Tool box is unique and full of proprietary data as well as
important traditional price derived measures!
I sincerely believe everything you will
ever need to position and swing trade futures professionally is contained inside the password
protected vault of the Upperman & Associates website. Our indicators
and strategies are constantly under evaluation for effectiveness.
As market conditions change, so do the effectiveness of some
indicators. Our weekly C OT indicators have a built in feature
that enable them to "re-adjust" to changes in market
conditions from week to week. Furthermore all of our
indicators are under constant evaluation for effectiveness as are our
trading strategies as well. A trader must keep an open mind to
enhancements, adjustments and improvements to his or her approach as the
markets are in a constant state of fluctuation.
Over the last 7 years I have
created and implemented new enhancements, improvements and introduced
many new features to our site and services. I do this to keep our
trading strategies in peak performance and to improve the user-friendliness
of our software. While I am constantly making improvements and
adding new features I have NEVER raised the membership dues for existing members and I do not
charge for any of the new enhancements or improvements! That's one of the
benefits to being a member of Upperman & Associates. In
addition, I am constantly working on improvements to make access
to our data and strategies easier to the users (you and I)! For example,
in 2003 I added a new CNP (Custom Navigation Program) that allows users
of our software and data to access our graphs from one screen with the
click of a mouse (versus going from page to page to access different
indicators and graphs). This new software program enables members to
pull-up and access any of our graphs and charts from one page! You can
also pull up two graphs at a time for comparison studies! And this
again eliminates the need to
flip back and forth from page to page to access the different graphs and
studies. When I first began providing access to my
strategies online I only had about 200 charts and graphs. Today I
now have over 1000! These new additions provide users with deeper
insight on price patterns as well as provide assistance for
entries. My newest graphs contain sophisticated measures of
over-bought and over-sold conditions using de-trended (residual)
data. The new CNP program addition makes accessing
all of these new features easier and more user-friendly!
In addition, over the last 5 years we
have made improvements with our entry techniques and position management.
I have provided both documentation to assist in learning the new concepts as
well as the actual data. For example, I created a new program that
actually recognizes specific patterns in the market. When a pattern is
present the program is now setup so that there are indicators directly on our
daily graphs that signal the pattern is present. The charts also show
previous patterns. Furthermore an automated report lists all the markets with
specific patterns present occurring. I even take that one more step and
provide actual Buy, Sell, and Stop signals along with the monetary risk (dollar
risk based on the suggested entry and the protective stop). All of
this is supportive of our core IMPA system (which is the COT derived
system).
In 2003 I also added new
"de-trended" studies which are entirely proprietary and found no place
else in the entire world. These new "de-trended" studies provide very
accurate Over-bought and Over-sold measures. These studies are provided on
our daily price graphs and weekly price graphs. Here's an example.
http://www.wizkid-trading.com/Freesamples/examplecharts/individualspecs/sw35.htm
Unique usernames and passwords enable each member to access the protected areas
on the site. These protected area's and/or the "vault" is the
traders "tool box". There are presently over 1000 unique charts,
graphs and indicators maintained inside the vault for members that are
accessible 24/7 and 365 days a year. All of our indicators and graphs are
generated from our own software. There are no other services in the world
that provide the same graphs and indicators that we do. We know this to be
true because Floyd has developed every indicator himself and built every graph
himself (from scratch). Floyd is the only person with access to the source
code from which all the indicators and graphs are generated.
Below are 16 examples of what members have access to. This is NOT
everything, but it will give you an idea of what members have access to.
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Proprietary COT
indicators and individual studies of each component. We provide
graphs and individual studies on the Commercials and Funds, and we also
break the commercial component down into "Commercial Producers"
and "Commercial Consumers". Proprietary graphs and
indicators are provided for each entity.
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Members have access
to an entire position trading system derived from a combination of COT and
price derived indicators including specific pattern formation. The system
also includes automated reports identifying specific patterns to assist with
entry points as well as position management.
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Unique seasonal price graphs that have the added benefit of confirming
commercial producer and commercial consumer seasonal behavior (the cause &
affect of most seasonal biases).
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Exclusive proprietary OS/OB indicators derived from advanced
de-trended analysis (proven very powerful). For example, when traditional
oscillators go over-bought (OB) or over-sold (OS) our detrended studies may
indicate the market actually has more room to run. Furthermore, when other
traditional popular price derived oscillators (such as the ever popular
stochastic) indicate a market isn't OS or OB, ours may indicate otherwise.
Testing shows ours are far more accurate across the 45 markets we track!
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Most software requires the user deal with rolls and figuring out what month
to track next (updating symbols and all that). Our software does all this
for us! And we know exactly when we should roll!
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We have the most important traditional price derived technical indicators
such as the moving averages and our weighted RSI. Studies and common sense
show its often important to track some of the same indicators everyone else is
tracking too. This helps members anticipate the market and also helps
with developing an "instinct" or "feel" for what the market
will do next. One of the key elements that seems to separate
successful from unsuccessful traders is having a good
"instinct". Good instinct however doesn't come from
graphs indicators. It comes from experience and remembering what you
have observed in the past. Its often considered part of the "subconscious".
It is important! Our graphs and indicators provide some of the
best insight possible (using colors to identify trends and various visible
indicators to show where trends have begun and ended in the past).
Members often take this a step further by learning how to anticipate these
indicators. This has proven to be very instrumental in developing sharp
instinct.
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Members have
access to a mix of charting intervals. This includes daily price graphs,
weekly price graphs and the long historical price graphs (dating back to 1969 in
the grains for example).
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Our COT studies (Commitment of traders)
are based on data going all the way back to 1983. Many sites/software that
provide COT studies only go back to the early nineties,
and none provide our exclusively proprietary UCL/LCL statistical reference
points (the core of our IMPA approach). In addition, no other software that
I am aware of provides graphs and charts of the commercial entities (producers
and consumers) as well as the funds in separate graphs along with statistical
reference points derived from a proven form of statistical analysis known as
"six sigma", which has had significant affect (improvement) in the
manufacturing sector throughout the world! How does it do it? By identifying
key steps in any process and then tracking and analyzing all the DATA involved
in that process step. Essentially I am doing the same thing here by applying proven
6-sigma technology to understanding the markets (using data)!
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I write a weekly IMPA/COT
report discussing all the current COT/IMPA setups for the upcoming
week!
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I also write a daily
evening report to assist members with handling all current setups, including
patterns and setups for intra-day S&P and emini trading as well.
Many times this report contains illustration using our graphs and
charts. We have over 1000 unique graphs, charts and indicators online
and available today!
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All members have access to
my short-term emini and S&P trading strategies and methods much of which
is documented in manuals and online graphical examples (illustration using
real-time graphs and charts).
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All members have access to
our private message board service. This service is for members only
(so there are no pestering spammers). We discuss the markets and the
setups that may exist. Members help each other learn the strategies
and I assist by answering questions and providing insight and help.
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Automation! We have
several automated reports and programs that all members have access
to. For example, our automated plunger program identifies markets
currently exhibiting specific patterns. This report provides members with a
suggested price range for entry, a specific stop and it calculates the
monetary risk based on the worst case entry (inside the suggested price
range) and the stop provided. Furthermore, the plunger formations are
all tracked on our graphs and charts with blue/red indicators!
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And finally, we have a
wonderful new program called CNP (custom Navigation Program) which allows
members to pull up any of our charts, graphs and studies from one
screen! The CNP also enables members to divide their screen into two
windows, so that two graphs can be displayed at once! Once the use
selects the two series of graphs they wish to display, they can then select
from our list of 45 markets, pulling up the same two graphs in each market
as they go down the list. And all our daily price graphs are updated
(end of day) and we keep an exceptional clean database from which our
indicators are derived. Members also have access to available "raw
data" COT and price data downloads as well for those that want to do
some of their own charting (with COT and price).
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Access to schedules for USDA reports and the reports themselves the minute
they are released!
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Access to key weekly economic reports and their schedules from week to week
too!
* We call our COT analysis "IMPA". I.M.P.A. stands for
Individual Market Participant Analysis.
So there you have it, those are
16 excellent reasons to be an Upperman member!
Floyd Upperman
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