What is Safe Simple Trading?
Every trading day Nat posts a trading plan which in includes a series of “inflection points” for the markets she trades: gold, oil and S&P500 e-mini future contracts. Here’s a sample.
The inflection points are price levels where she expects the market to take some significant action. An existing short-term trend may stop and reverse at that price or close to it, for example.
Members with Full Access privileges use those levels make to initiate trades and adjust their positions during the trading day.
But members with Daily or Weekly Access can also use them to place resting orders that capture part of the market action during the day.
We call those trading methods Safe, Simple Trading and they were specifically developed for traders who can’t (or don’t want to) monitor market activity during the regular trading day.
What’s it good for?
Safe Simple Trading has a lot of advantages for people who want to make a little supplemental inccome from the market, but don’t want to devote a lifetime to learning how to do it.
It uses “resting trades” — limit orders placed before the market opens and cancelled when the market closes — to capture part of the price movement during the day, and adds “hard” dollar stops to strictly control losses.
The method is:
- relatively safe, because it uses fixed dollar “stops” to limit the amount of risk on every trade;
- dead simple, even for traders with almost no experience, because the specific entry points are posted well in advance;
- consistently profitable; and sometimes they make outrageous gains.
- cheap like borscht, because we use “day” margins that are only about 10% of the amounts required to hold positions overnight.
How does it work?
Nat posts 12 Inflection points each day: two buy levels and two sell levels for each of three contracts; the e-mini (symbol ES) gold (symbol GC) and crude oil (symbol CL). Safe Simple Trading uses just the first buy and sell level, and while we recommend trading all three contracts, lots of members trade only one or two.
Overnight, or any time before the market opens, our traders place two “limit” orders for each contract:
- Sell one contract at Nat’s first sell level; buy one contract at Nat’s first buy level.
- All orders are “order-cancels-order” so the first order that is filled for the contract cancels the other.
- All orders are good “day only” so if they are not filled they are cancelled at no cost at the end of the trading session.
- Filled orders are exited “market-on-close” at the closing price of the day
- Every filled order has a “hard” stop of $300 that exits the trade if the loss on that trade reaches the stop level.
That’s the whole business. At the end of the day you count up the winners and losers.
If a trade was “stopped out” the amount of the loss is subtracted from your account balance. If the closing price is lower than your selling price or higher than your buying price, the difference is profit that is added to your account.
There are lots of tweaks our traders use — larger or smaller stops, entering trades a bit before or a bit after Nat’s inflection points, trading a larger number of contracts in “hot” markets, using both first and second entry levels, etc. — but the basic process is that simple.
Does it make money?
Yes.
By using hard stops the system forces you to adhere to the first rule of trading: control your losses.
And by providing entry levels based on traditional support and resistance — modified by Nat’s special sauce — the system puts you into trades that have a better-than-average likelihood of
“Better-than-average” doesn’t mean that every trade is a winner. But the systematic use of hard stops means the winning trades are generally larger than the losers.
In general the ratio of winning traders to losing trades is about 2:3. or three losers for every two winners.
But the value of winning trades to losing trades is roughly 2:1, or two dollars profit for every one dollar loss.
That’s a formula for consistent profits, and it explains why we have traders who have been doing this with us since 2004.
You can see the full detals of the results for the first quarter of 2019 and the results to date for 2020 under the “Outcomes” tab in the top menu. But here’s a taste.
Results
In the first three months of 2019 the method had:
Number of trades: 87
Number of winning trades: 39
Value of winning trades: $23,357.50
Average winner: $598.91;
Number of losing trades: 48
Value of losing trades: -$13,562.50
average loser: $282.55
Total net profits before slippage and commissions: $9,795*
In the first four weeks of 2020 the method had:
Number of trades: 21
Number of winning trades: 7
Value of Winning trades: $9,677.50
Average winning trade: $1,382.50
Number of losing trades: 14
Value of losing trades: $3660.00
Average losing trade: $261.45
Total Net Profit before slippage and commisions: $6,017.50*
The returns for January 2020 were well above average, due mainly to volatility in oil futures that has provided some great trades. The returns for February 2020 are below average, due to a sharp correction that consistently broke through support levels.
But that volatility won’t last forever. When the markets stabilize support and resistance levels will become more predictable — and more profitable.
But if you don’t grab it now you’ll miss out on some of the best trades of the year. The results pretty much speak for themselves.
Anyone can do this. It takes no more than a couple of hours a day. It generates substantial profits with relatively small upfront investment. And the cost of the memberhip that puts this within reach is unusually low.
How much does it cost?
$57 a month forever, as long as you maintain your memberhip. Just click the button for the details.
- These are hypothetical results and not a record of actual trades. If a trader placed orders following the listed trading rules, those trades would have produced these results.