The Daily Email

As a subscriber, every day before 12:00 Eastern Time you will be getting a single email from us that states our current position.

• If you’re a subscriber to just one of the trading strategies by itself, your email will have information for just that one strategy

• If you’re subscribed to the Total Portfolio Solution you will see the signals for all strategies.

The VTS Indicators

The VTS Indicators are an easy to understand method of conveying the trade signals in our daily email to subscribers.  The needle will point to one of the only three possible positions our trading strategies will ever take:

VTS Tactical Volatility Strategy:

VTS Tactical Balanced Strategy:

VTS Iron Condor Strategy:

• When we’re in cash, the above chart will be empty and you’ll get a daily reminder that we currently have no trades open

VTS Discretionary Strategy:

• This is our freestyle strategy that will involve any number of different trade types depending on market conditions.  It’s designed both as an investable strategy, as well as a teaching strategy where I will go into much more detail of each trade.
• To learn more about the strategy, check out the video on the VTS Discretionary Strategy

VTS Conservative Vol  +  VTS Aggressive Vol

• Both are volatility strategies designed for investors with different risk tolerance levels.
• Both have a VTS indicator that looks very similar to the Tactical Volatility ones above.
• Both will be included with any subscription level so you will always see all the volatility strategies in your daily email

This is NOT Day Trading

None of our trading strategies are very active, so most of the time you will just read the email and nothing else will be required of you that day.  It’s extremely easy to follow our strategies.

 

• The VTS Tactical Balanced Strategy averages 3.5 trade transactions per month.

• The VTS Iron Condor Strategy averages 1.9 trade transactions per month  (that includes both open and close)

• The VTS Aggressive Vol Strategy averages 1.8 trade transactions per month

• The VTS Conservative Vol Strategy averages 2.5 trade transactions per month

• The VTS Discretionary Strategy is new but I anticipate about  4 trade transactions per month

Executing Trades

On those few days per month when trades are required, you will open your trading software and execute the trades.

• Margin accounts are the easiest to work with, but cash accounts are also acceptable.  If you are using a margin account, you may choose to execute trades with “market on close” orders.  It’s not required, but I personally do this so that I execute all my trades at the same time of day.

• If you are trading in Cash accounts, just input your trades manually at any time throughout the day.  We’re all very busy so honestly whenever is most convenient for you will work just fine.  The small differences in execution prices throughout the day should balance out over time.

• IRA style tax sheltered accounts are allowed.  Our Tactical and Balanced strategies only trade long ETPs so all account structures are allowed.  For our Iron Condor and option strategies please contact your broker.  Several of them allow option trading within tax sheltered accounts but there are some that don’t so please contact them directly.

• The VTS Iron Condor Strategy does require a margin account with options trading authorization