Bio
John Tolan
Mr. Tolan is the sole owner of Scientific Trading Solutions, Inc. and the developer of the Trendchannel Trading System. Scientific Trading Solutions, Inc. (DBA Trendchannel) has been registered as a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) since January, 1999. Prior to forming Trendchannel, he worked from 1995 to 1999 with CQG in software sales and trading system development. From 1977 to 1995, he was a futures broker with ACLI International, Merrill Lynch, and Fox Investments. John received his B.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Illinois in 1976, graduating with honors.
System
Trendchannel
The Trendchannel Portfolio is a futures account that applies the Trendchannel Trading System to a balanced and diversified group of markets, seeking to produce consistent performance with an efficient reward/risk portfolio. Now, with the new E-Mini futures contracts, even with a relatively small futures account, you can achieve broad diversification and profit potential by systematically trading the up and down trends in the most actively traded futures markets that represent the four major investment asset classes: stock index, interest rates, currencies and grains.
You can give your portfolio a quick check-up with this question: Do you have any investments now that will generate positive returns if the stock market goes down, bonds go down (rates go higher), the dollar loses value, or commodity prices (inflation) go up? If the answer is no, then you may want to add a Trendchannel Portfolio to your investments to diversify and hedge to help reduce these market risks.
Future thoughts on your program:More than ever, investors will be looking for alternative investment strategies that can provide capital growth in all market conditions. If the future is uncertain, then the best financial advice may be to diversify over multiple financial asset classes and prepare for markets that can move up or down. To achieve your financial goals of both return enhancement and overall investment portfolio risk reduction, it may be wise to diversify by allocating a portion of your investment capital to a managed futures account trading a Trendchannel Portfolio - a systematic, trend trading, asset allocation strategy.
The February 2007 issue of Futures Magazine displayed the Top 10 Trading Systems, which were research by George Pruitt of Futures Truth. PFG cannot verify the performance of the programs listed. The risk of loss in trading futures, options, cash currencies and other leveraged transaction products can be substantial. Therefore only "risk capital" should be used. Futures, options, cash currencies and other leveraged transaction products are not suitable investments for everyone. The valuation of futures, options, cash currencies and other leveraged transaction products may fluctuate and as a result clients may lose more than the amount originally invested and may also have to pay more later. Consider your financial condition before deciding to invest or trade.