I-MASTER
INDEX TRADING SYSTEM

NOTICE: “HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS HAVE MANY INHERENT LIMITATIONS, SOME OF WHICH ARE DESCRIBED BELOW. NO REPRESENTATION IS BEING MADE THAT ANY ACCOUNT WILL OR IS LIKELY TO ACHIEVE PROFITS OR LOSSES SIMILAR TO THOSE SHOWN. IN FACT, THERE ARE FREQUENTLY SHARP DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS AND THE ACTUAL RESULTS SUBSEQUENTLY ACHIEVED BY ANY PARTICULAR TRADING PROGRAM. ONE OF THE LIMITATIONS OF HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS IS THAT THEY ARE GENERALLY PREPARED WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT. IN ADDITION, HYPOTHETICAL TRADING DOES NOT INVOLVE FINANCIAL RISK, AND NO HYPOTHETICAL TRADING RECORD CAN COMPLETELY ACCOUNT FOR THE IMPACT OF FINANCIAL RISK IN ACTUAL TRADING. FOR EXAMPLE, THE ABILITY TO WITHSTAND LOSSES OR TO ADHERE TO A PARTICULAR TRADING PROGRAM IN SPITE OF TRADING LOSSES ARE MATERIAL POINTS WHICH CAN ALSO ADVERSELY AFFECT ACTUAL TRADING RESULTS. THERE ARE NUMEROUS OTHER FACTORS RELATED TO THE MARKETS IN GENERAL OR TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ANY SPECIFIC TRADING PROGRAM WHICH CANNOT BE FULLY ACCOUNTED FOR IN THE PREPARATION OF HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS AND ALL OF WHICH CAN ADVERSELY AFFECT ACTUAL TRADING RESULTS.”

I-Master is an index trading system that was totally developed by Murray Ruggerio, a well-known trader and technical analyst. TradeSystem, Inc. is fortunate to have had Murray ask us to market his system. In this capacity, we developed standalone software to implement the system and wrote a manual to detail it's logic, performance, and the use of the software. I-Master was developed on a basket of seven US futures indices: the S&P500, NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Russell 1000, Russell 2000, Mini-ValueLine, and the S&P Midcap. The exact same rules and parameter values are used across all these indices. Murray has found an elegant entry technique that captures short-term market turning points in the indices. This entry is so robust that it yields extraordinary profits on all seven indices without any added filters or stop logic. The following summary shows the power of this entry on these seven indices when the entry is used to form a pure reversal system, one that is always in the market reversing from long to short, and back to long.

The simple entry strategy yields the following performance across the seven futures indices. The time period is from 1 Jan 1996 through 9 October 2001, and a slippage/commission deduction of $300 was taken from each trade.

Considering the simplicity of the entry, these results are nothing less than astounding. Across the seven tradeables, the basic entry technique averaged over $500,000 per year, winning about 58 percent of the trades. And the development sample size is very large, almost 4,000 trades, so curve-fitting has very little effect.

The finished system yielded the following results across the seven indices. Again, the time period is from 1 Jan 1996 through 9 October 2001, and a slippage/commission deduction of $300 was taken from each trade. The exact same rules and parameter values were used for each index.

I-Master is a fully disclosed system. All aspects of the system are disclosed, and the manual details the rationale for the program logic. You will know exactly what you are trading, and why it is in each trade.

With I-Master purchase, you will receive the following:

• A manual that details the rules of the system, and discusses the rationale behind each system component.
• A standalone, Windows-based program that allows backtest and signal generation for the system.
• A standalone, Windows-based program that allows backtest of I-Master, Aberration, and Aztec. Integrated portfolios can be tested as was done for this promotional piece.
• Open Trade Station code that will work in TS 4.0 or TS2000i.
• Full support.

If you've bought systems before, you know that advertising promises were not always true. The guarantee that comes with this system is that if the marketing material is not true, in any way, you can have your money back. When you buy a system, you are buying past performance in the expectation that future performance will, on average, be the same. I-Master's past performance is fairly documented; that is the guarantee.

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