Atlas-35 Trading System

Welcome to Atlas-35 - one of the most powerful tools for the technical analysis of commodity futures markets available today.

Atlas-35 is a complete commodity futures trading program with buy and sell entries, protective stops, trailing stops and profit targets. The program is based on a true objective trading system and leaves nothing to subjectivity. The system combines proven mechanical technical analysis indicators calculations with sound money management principles. With every trade you will know the precise entry level and whether you are going long or short, how much you need to risk on the trade and when to exit.

Trades only busy, liquid markets, including Yen, Swiss Franc, Crude Oil and US Bonds.

Attempts to keep Low Equity Drawdowns and conserve your money for winning trades.

Atlas-35 trading program was developed to trade a basket of commodities. It trades all seven commodity groups: the grains, meats, softs, metals, energies, currencies and financials. Stock Indices commodity group is traded by Atlas-RT program.

Atlas-35 uses more than 100 trading systems to perform computerized technical analysis. Each system falls into one of five general classes: Moving Average, Divergence, Pattern, Oscillator, and Trend. Atlas-35 optimizes many individual systems, and arrives at a collection in a Vote Output. It then runs Back Tests for each system to determine the system efficiency for each commodity market. Atlas-35 will simulate trading on each Trading System and select the best ones to form a consensus and compose trading signals based on the score from the test.

This process selects systems that “characterize the efficiency” of the commodity in the Back Test and yields the highest probability trades. As long as the general system efficiency after the Back Test remains more or less consistent, Atlas-35 will continue to generate excellent signals on the Vote Output from these systems. [See Disclaimer].

Each and every day the program downloads historical and current price data and updates the system commodity portfolio with current prices. Based on the Active Trading Model, a systems test is performed on all commodities futures markets in the program portfolio. The trading systems “vote” or confirm one another to generate trading signals, accompanied by the signal relative confidence index reading. After each market is evaluated for strength, weakness and fundamental setup conditions, Atlas-35 produces buy, sell, and close Trading Recommendations.

Atlas-35 also consists of proprietary risk management rules and money management techniques for dealing with both losing and winning trades. The program provides an impressive array of exits (stops) for you to use in managing your trade once you get into it. Stop is an order to close an open trade if and when the market moves to a given price. The stop includes a price declaration and is considered an order in itself. The system has a stops control utility that allows you to place stops for open orders. [See Disclaimer].

The exits in Atlas-35 make judicious use of the concepts of stop units, market volatility, pivot points and trend-lines. It utilizes a combination of exits and the system closes a trade with the first one hit, that is, the most conservative exit. Atlas-35 Risk and Money Management Rules comprise of the following types of exits:

Protective Loss Stops are placed below or above the entry price for buy/sell positions respectively, to limit the loss in case of losing trades, every time when a new trade is executed. For each commodity market the Protective Loss Stops are calculated based on: (1) the actual market volatility and (2) medium term pivot-points. Fixed actual market Volatility Loss Stops are placed at 2 times the Average True Range (ATR) from the previous day's close. The ATR is defined as the average of the price movement over a preset number of days. Pivot-Point Fixed Loss Stop exits a trade when price equals or is less than (in the case of a loss stop in a long trade) an amount calculated by the price at the bottom of the prior pivot point minus the stop level parameter.

Breakeven Exit – Once price reaches a profit specified by the threshold level set at 50% of the short term Fibonacci Retracement Projections, the system moves your protective loss stop to your entry price (not including commissions and fees). [See Disclaimer].

Profit Objectives are not specified by Atlas-35 exit rules and the system offsets the trading positions on reversing signal. Reversing Signals exits the trade when a signal is generated in the opposite direction. The reversing signal has two functions: to exit the existing trade and to enter a trade in the other direction.

Trailing Profit Stop – For the purposes of placing Trailing Profit Stop, we calculate minimum targets for the recommended positions. The minimum targets are based on medium term calculations and are projected at 50% Fibonacci Retracement Levels. The Profit Trailing Loss Stop is specified once the price reaches the minimum target. The system will “trail” the stop behind the price by an amount equal to 50% of the minimum target gain.

An Advantage. Atlas-35 is a good reliable trading system, one that has proven itself in real trading conditions. The system issues clear and objective signals. This will help you trade without any emotions to distract you from your long term objectives.

Discipline. We have the discipline to follow the system every day. Every day the system trading recommendations are executed, and closed and open positions updated and recorded.

Adequate Funds. You must be conservative and have adequate margin funds for each commodity contract traded. To trade all 35 commodities with Atlas-35 ( this System), the total recommended margin is $35,000. This margin is calculated from contract and margin specifications of Atlas-35 commodity basket, market volatility of each commodity and the system peak-to-valley drawdowns.

If you are starting with a small account, you will not be able to initially trade all 35 markets, but you can use the diversity Atlas-35 affords to potentially build your account. Here is how. Take the first signal given in each of the following seven market groups: agriculturals, meats, softs, metals, energies, currencies and financials. Once a trade is taken in a group, take no more in that group until the first trade is exited. Trading in this manner diversifies you across all groups without overexposing you to correlated markets. If your account builds, you can add another trade per group until you are trading all the signals.

System Limitations. Atlas-35 is likely to remain effective in the future, because it trades the type of trends that are driven by supply/demand realities or perceptions – trends too powerful to be influenced by system traders. Whether it is changes in Fed policy, supply shortness, weather concerns, or inventory drawdowns, commodities will always be driven up or down by supply/demand expectations. Atlas-35 trades these trends, not the daily market noise. We believe the markets would have to fundamentally change for Atlas-35 to become unreliable.

Y2000	Y2001	Y2002
Annual +$82,155	Annual +$94,006	Year-to-Date
September +$10,220	January +$35,032	January +$2,760
October +$26,285	February +$17,491	February +$4,174
November +$18,665	March +$27,412	March
December +$26,985	April -$1,312	April
	May +$7,878	May
	June +$1,742	June
	July +$9,876	July
	August -$9,281	August
	September -$1,424	September
	October +$2,910	October
	November -$1,853	November
	December +$5,535	December

Atlas-35 is traded with Broker Assisted accounts or on Discretionary basis. Atlas-35 trading system is offered on a monthly subscription plan and all system signals are executed for you by us. With a Broker Assisted account you would authorize all trades for your account.

With your broker, you have access to your account 24 hours a day. You can see your position and equity in real-time, get real-time quotes, and enter orders online. But again, there's no need for you to enter your orders for Atlas-35 because our brokers can do that for you.

Get more information about Atlas-35 and you will have the daily trading mechanics and recommendations of the trading system. Open your System-Assisted account today and Subscribe to Atlas-35 to take advantage of our system-trading program. You will have account forms within a couple days and can start your trading within a week.

NOTE: Atlas-35 is available for trading under Broker Assisted or Discretionary accounts. You would be authorizing our recommended brokers to execute the system trading signals and handle your account on your behalf. If you are interested in managed money under CTA please refer to Managed Futures section.

If you would like more information about our Trading Systems, please call Toll Free 1-866-CFT-5826, E-mail products@ia-group.net or send an Electronic Request.

DISCLAIMER: "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."

CFT HAS HAD LITTLE OR NO EXPERIENCE IN TRADING ACTUAL ACCOUNTS FOR ITSELF OR FOR CUSTOMERS. BECAUSE THERE ARE NO ACTUAL TRADING RESULTS TO COMPARE TO THE HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS, CUSTOMERS SHOULD BE PARTICULARLY WARY OF PLACING UNDUE RELIANCE ON THESE HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS.

DISCLAIMER: THERE IS RISK OF LOSS IN FUTURES AND OPTIONS TRADING. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS.

DISCLAIMER: The use of stop loss order does not guarantee that your losses will be limited to the intended amount. Certain market conditions could make it impossible to execute such orders.