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With its Turbo Model,
TimingCube
offers an innovative system to trading the stock market. By focusing on
the volatility of the market, our Model can toggle between a slow, trend-following
approach to investing and a faster mode that requires more active trading.
By issuing simple Buy or Sell
signals, subscribers are able to easily follow the Model's guidance
and invest in their favorite broad market equity index. Because of its
frequent trading signals during volatile periods, some might think our
Turbo Model to be a demanding, high-maintenance friend. However, with
70% of the trades being winners, investors can miss a few trades here
or there without substantially impacting their long-term return from the
system. And that long-term performance offers a compelling ride; gliding
over the market's speedbumps and accelerating into the straightaways
to give your portfolio maximum speed while maintaining an enviable record
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Take TimingCube's Turbo Model for a spin today, and turbocharge
your portfolio!
Getting started with
the TimingCube
Turbo Model is extremely easy. Once you have decided how much money you
want to invest with the system, all you need to know is what our current
timing signal is (Buy or Sell).
The Turbo Model is run daily after the New York stock market closes. We
update our Web site and Signal by Phone message by 9:00
pm ET that same day. If a new signal is triggered, we also automatically
send an e-mail to all active subscribers that have elected to be notified
of Turbo signal changes. That way, you don't have to check the site every
day to ensure that you are not missing out on a new signal. In order to
achieve the full benefit from any signal change, you should act on it as
soon as possible.
For market commentary and investor education topics, subscribers should
consult our "Weekly Update" posted on the Web
site on Fridays. The latest and archived updates can be viewed on the "Weeklies"
page after you log in. To establish your portfolio and start trading with
our Turbo Model, simply follow the steps below.
Getting started with
the TimingCube
Turbo Model:
- Decide how to
allocate your funds. You can also use our Turbo Model signals to trade
specific U.S. indexes: for reference, we track the results obtained
for the Nasdaq 100, Russell 2000 and S&P 500 when trading the corresponding
ETFs (QQQ, IWM and SPY respectively) according to our signals. Because
of the frequent trading that can occur at times with the Turbo Model,
we recommend that subscribers with IRA or non-margined accounts make
sure they have cash available in their account before placing orders
to buy new positions in order to avoid settlement issues. How quickly
cash is available after making trades can vary among brokers.
- Select your strategy
between the more aggressive Long and Short, which shorts
the market during Sell
signals, and Long Only, which simply goes to cash when
our signal is Sell.
- Log in to the
TimingCube
Web site and obtain our current Turbo Model signal from the Turbo
Model "Signal" page.
- Establish and
maintain your portfolio according to the following table (see the "Strategies"
section below for all the details):
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Implementing
the Strategies with ETFs
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Turbo Signal
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Nasdaq
100
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Russell
2000
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S&P
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Strategy
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Long & Short
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Buy
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Sell
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Strategy
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Long Only
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Buy
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Sell
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Cash
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Money Market Fund
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when the Turbo Signal changes, any existing position should be liquidated
before the new one is taken. |
Our Turbo Model is
designed to work best when trading the Nasdaq 100. However, good results
can also be had by using other broad equity indexes such as the Russell
2000 or S&P 500. We report the returns obtained using the corresponding
ETFs on our "Results"
page. Regardless of which index you choose to follow, we provide two simple
strategies that will help you achieve strong, consistent long-term results,
namely the Long and Short and Long Only
strategies.
- Strategy
1: Long and Short
This strategy approach allows us to profit whether the market is
going up or down. We believe this strategy offers the best risk/reward
ratio for most investors, and maximizes the benefits of our Turbo Model.
You will remain invested, long or short, at all times.
- When our Turbo Model issues a Buy signal,
you liquidate your current short positions (if any), and buy shares
of your selected investment, thus establishing a long position. For
example, buying shares in the Nasdaq 100 index ETF, symbol QQQ.
- When our Turbo Model issues a Sell signal,
you liquidate your current long positions (if any) and "sell"
the market by shorting shares of your selected investment or buying
the corresponding inverse fund. For example, buying shares in the
inverse Nasdaq 100 ETF, symbol PSQ.
Note:
Since selling short requires a margin account, qualified retirement
accounts such as an IRA or a 401k plan must buy inverse ETFs, as these
investment vehicles are authorized in retirement accounts. Most 401k
plans would not have an inverse ETF or mutual fund choice, and might
impose restrictions on trading as well. In such cases, we would recommend
our Long Only strategy below as a better choice.
- Strategy
2: Long Only
This strategy invests only when a Buy
signal is issued and remains in cash otherwise:
- When our Turbo Model issues a Buy signal,
you buy shares of your selected investment, thus establishing a
long position. For example, buying shares in the Nasdaq 100 index
ETF, symbol QQQ.
- When our Turbo Model issues a Sell signal,
you liquidate your long positions and keep the proceeds in cash
or in a money market fund.
Note:
The Long Only strategy will result in only half the trades of the
full Long and Short approach, and may also be a good choice for situations
where you do not have access to inverse ETFs.
You can check the performance
and returns for both strategies on the "Results"
page. If you are a subscriber and log in to the site, all returns on the "Results"
page will be current as of the last trading day. If you are not a subscriber,
all results will be delayed by twenty trading days.
We strongly recommend ETFs for use with our Turbo Model and expect subscribers
will see substantially diminished results if using mutual funds to trade
the signals.
Our Turbo Model serves
investors who are willing to more actively trade their account in order
to achieve better performance. Trade signals are driven in part by market
volatility. They can come as often as twice a week during periods of extreme
market volatility. During calm periods in the market, there may be weeks
or months between signals, the average being 4 signals per month. Because
of the active trading nature of the Turbo Model, investors using IRA accounts
should consider using half or less of their full account value during active
trading periods to avoid issues with trade settlement and cash availability.
To compensate for this, IRA accounts should consider using leveraged ETFs
- e.g. using a 2x ETF in half of the account.
There are no prerequisites or particular investment experience requirements,
and no complicated methodology to learn. Because of this combination of
simplicity and performance, we believe that TimingCube
belongs in any investor's portfolio. You could start with as little as a
few thousand of dollars or millions. The money can be in regular brokerage
accounts or any qualified retirement accounts that allow trading of ETFs.
If you are interested in our investment approach but do not have the desire
to do your own trading, the staff of our sister company, MARKETTREND
Advisors, will be happy to manage a TimingCube-based
portfolio on your behalf.
Our proprietary Turbo Model derives its signals from the behavior of the QQQ
. QQQ is the ETF
based on the Nasdaq 100
, an index driven primarily by the largest technology
companies in the United States. Taking into account the volatility of the
index, our Turbo Model can be in a slower, trend-following state where signals
and trades are few; or switch to more frequent trading where signals can
occur as often as twice a week, with an overall average of 4 signals per
month. Launched in October 2011, The Turbo Model is 100% mechanical and
has been backtested since the inception of the QQQ ETF, that is March 1999.
The Turbo Model will generate a Buy
or Sell signal as conditions dictate
with subscribers notified that evening by e-mail of a signal change. Once
a signal has been issued, it remains in effect until a change in signal
comes. Unlike our Classic Model, our Turbo Model never issues a Cash signal,
nor does it have any stop loss point. Over the 12 years of backtested performance,
the Turbo Model Long and Short strategy has achieved an annualized return of over 88% with a maximum
drawdown of 14%. We feel that is a very reasonable risk level given the
tremendous potential for gains with Turbo.
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Our Turbo Model does not use the World ETF Ranking. The reason is that our Turbo Model is a "point" trading Model where we advise subscribers to
trade only one or two major equity indexes. Given that the Classic Model
typically has signals that can last many months, there is more benefit to
trying to identify and focus your investment on the best performing areas
of the market. World ETF Rankings provide that guidance for where markets are
hottest. Thus, with Classic, you gain from both the signal as well as from
what index or country ETFs you use. With the Turbo Model potentially issuing
signals twice a week during volatile periods, the gains come almost solely
from the accuracy of the signal. There is far less to be gained from buying
and selling a multi-position portfolio and, indeed, you would likely experience
higher trading costs with no better performance as a result of trading more
than one or two positions with the Turbo Model. That said, we are also offering
our popular "Ticker Tool" feature for the Turbo Model so subscribers can go
"off-road" and find their own favorite Turbo investment vehicles.
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