Catscan 4

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Address:	1075 W Cedar Lane
	Crawfordsville, IN 47933
Phone # for sales:	800 745 8238
Fax:	765 866 8001
Website:	mindfire-systems.com
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E-mail address:	Mindfire@mindfire-systems.com

CATEGORY: TRADING SYSTEMS

Trading System Features TOP

Name of trading system: Catscan 4

Price of product: $1475

Brief description of trading system:

Multiple Award winner. One of Top 10 Systems Of All Time, Futures Mag, 1997. Top 10 Systems Since Release, Futures Truth, Co. This is a very Unique system that is actually 2 systems in one-a choppy market system and a trending market system. Its Choppiness Index continually measures the market automatically switching back and forth between the 2 systems.

This trading system is: Disclosed

This system includes the following features:

Trading signals

Back testing allowed: Yes

Built-in indicators are available:

Plot equity line
Show indicator values
System performance reports
System signals plotted on charts
System tracking

A user can adjust the parameters for the indicators listed above: No

Can user write custom system/indicator/function without using the pre-packaged systems/indicators/functions?: Yes

The trading system is: Software that works within another application

Additional application required (if needed, eg. Excel, TradeStation, MetaStock): Supercharts, TradeStation

Support TOP

Types of customer support offered:

Training manuals
Online help
Tutorials and examples

Consultants are available with experience programming this system: Yes

Data and Markets Followed TOP

Types of data feeds this trading system accepts:

CSI
Dial Data/Track Data
Genesis Finacial Data
Pinnacle Data
Prophet Info Services
Tradestation
ASCII

This system is limited to these markets:

Options
Commodities
Cash markets
Bonds

Reporting capabilities:

Draw down
Profit/loss
Return percentage
Number of trades
Consecutive winning/losing trades
Uses TradeStation report outputs
Trade by trade listing
Graphic display of trades

Optimization TOP

Able to optimize the systems used or created: No

Special Features TOP

Best features of this trading system package:

The Chameleon ability of Catscan allows it to adapt to current market conditions.

This product is ahead of competing products for these reasons:

99% of all trading systems are Trend Following systems. There's nothing wrong with that except for the fact that markets are NOT trending 70% of the time. Trend following systems tend to get whipsawed to death in these choppy time periods. But Catscan just switches configurations in these time periods.

These upgrades are planned for this software package:

N/A

Studies have been done on the performance of this trading system in the newsletter Futures Truth: Yes

Validation TOP

Money back guarantee on this system: No

Performance tracking methods offered:

Prior to purchase detailed Futures Truth Excalibur performance reports are available.

Money management strategies and procedures included with your system: No

Additional Information TOP

The following are included in this system:

Completely mechanical rules and methodologies

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