Frequently asked questions
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Questions about Nat's service
(Here's a link to the complete membership information section)
How much does Nat's service cost?
The subscription is $249 per month.
How do I sign up?
Do you have a free trial of the service?
Sorry, no free trial for the general public. Clients of some affiliated brokers are sometimes allowed brief temporary access to see how the room operates.
We have not offered a general trial of the service since January 2006. It was simply too popular; it distracted from the service to our subscribers.
If you are an experienced trader, write and tell us about your background and we'll probably allow you to monitor the room for a couple of days.
We got buried with requests to monitor the room after we first put this up, so we have had to change our policy. Go to our not-a-free-trial page for the details.
Nat makes her calls by voice in a live, on-line chat room. She also types the calls as she is speaking for the chat room transcript. She gives entries, stops, and suggested targets for each call. Members can also monitor Nat's desktop in a separate program, and see her momentum lines, moving averages, indicators and support/resistance areas.
Nat prepares a Daily Trading Plan for each day, and discusses it in detail in a pre-market briefing at 9:00 a.m. EST. At about 3:30 p.m. EST she stops making calls and opens the room to questions.
At the end of the day she prepares a Daily Review, which summarizes the calls she made during the session and the outcome. In the evening, she posts major support and resistance levels for the Globex overnight market. On the weekend she sleeps... until Sunday, when she prepares a preview of the coming week.
You can see why we try to protect her time. Nat is very generous with her time and knowledge, but we don't like people to ask her questions directly. Ask us instead: admin@naturus.com
Results
How much money can I make trading futures?
Who knows? The there is no theoretical limit; the largest profit reported to us was $74,000 in a single day, by a member who had 16 straight intraday winners, trading 20 contract lots. We have no way of verifying that claim, but no reason to disbelieve it either. Recently a member told us he made $2,500 on his first day in the room. Those results are not typical, but they are not impossible either.
But before you order the Mercedes, there are a couple of things to remember:
- This is not easy. When you start trading you hope to take money from other traders, and they hope to take money from you. Until you acquire knowledge, experience and judgment, they are more likely to eat your lunch than you are to eat their's. Start slow and small, and be cautious until you find your way.
- Nat believes that every member who works diligently and pays attention to her calls can learn to trade profitably. But unless you are obsessive about trading, you are not likely to become filthy rich. A few of our members make very big profits; but most are content to take a decent living from the market and spend more of their time enjoying life.
- You are probably going to lose all the money in your account, at least once. Almost every successful trader — including Nat — has busted out at least once. Trading is extremely frustrating, especially when you are just beginning, and it is common for beginning traders to lose before they learn to win. So don't trade with more than you can afford to lose.
- But if you learn how to do this successfully you will be able to make money from it for the rest of your life.
The Daily Review of Nat's calls
Will I be able to get the same results as Nat gets in her Daily Review?
Probably not. Nat is a very accomplished trader, and in all likelihood, you are not. But in addition to issues like slippage and commission, which have an enormous impact on results, the Daily Review is not a record of Nat's trades; it is a kind of shorthand representation of the calls she made during the day, and the outcome.
It is not even a record of hypothetical trades. Trying to use it as representation of her trading results is a mistake, and if you expect to duplicate those results -- especially if you expect to do it in the week you first start trading -- you will be disappointed. Here is a link that explains this issue more fully.
Why isn't the Daily Review Nat's track record?
It is not compiled carefully enough to allow us to say that it represents the profits you can make trading Nat's calls.
In order to describe it as a track record -- with the implication that you could do this too -- we would have to record the precise outcome of every call in some kind of demo account. Then we would have to warn you that hypothetical results may not reflect reality, which is certainly true. And then we would have to warn you that past results are no indications of future profits, which is also true.
At the end, we might produce a great marketing tool. But we don't really do any marketing -- virtually all of Nat's members learned of the room by word-of-mouth -- and a great marketing tool isn't very helpful in real-world trading. Nat's service is about profitable trading, not marketing.
That's why you don't see her shouting about her great results. She does have good results; but the purpose of the exercise is for you to have good results.
Why doesn't Nat just publish her trade records on the web?
Why don't you just publish your tax returns on the web?
Trading methods
Does Nat list the number of targets, meaning if she initially has 2 targets then I can start with 2 contracts?
Does she list the stops for the trades until closing?
How far in advance (timewise) are the calls made?
Nat normally trades multiples of 2, 3 or 5 contracts depending on the trade. The trades are called by voice in an online chatroom and confirmed by written instructions in the text portion of the room.
If you poke around on the home page or in the Getting Started section there are links that explain Nat's methods. There is also a sample transcript of intraday's activity and a chart that shows how the calls were made for that day. You can also visit this link to see how her calls are used.
Trades usually have 2 or 3 targets. Some trades are called far in advance -- overnight, for example. Others are called on very short notice, as the market begins to move, and require very fast execution.
Nat calls initial stops for each trade, and adjusts them as the trade proceeds.
Nat normally gives one "scalping" target within 1.00 or 0.75 points of the entry price, and advises members to move their stops close to break even after this "scalping" trade is completed.
The purpose is to lock in a small profit on almost all trades, while leaving other positions open to take advantage of larger moves. As those targets are reached Nat will tell members to cover half or one third of their remaining positions, until the last target is hit.
You can trade this system profitably with one contract, but unless you hold on to the position for the second or third targets you will miss a large part of each move.
You can capture more of each move by increasing the number of contracts, but of course you also increase the risk of loss. Members have to decide for themselves their tolerance for risk, the size of their trades and the exit targets they will take.
What is the Nat line? How is it calculated?
Sorry, that's a proprietary indicator. Nat shares the results but not the formula.
That's about the only proprietary indicator on the site. Nat relies on the standard tools of technical analysis, which are widely taught. There are no secrets about them.
Nat's experience and expertise make these tools much more useful, and that is what she shares with members of her room.
What are the "method play calls" on the Daily Review?
The "method play calls" are a relatively new category we are tracking to see the results of trades made using the methods Nat teaches in her seminars: the descriptions of these trades are in the seminar materials.
Nat sometimes calls these trades in the room, but our purpose is to develop information on how often they occur and how many points they earn. They are not counted as part of the Daily Review, but we are collecting and sharing the information primarily as research.
There is Murrey Math information in Section 7 of the Daily Trading Plan. Does Nat use/teach Murrey Math?
Nat doesn't teach Murrey Math, and uses it only a little in her market analysis -- something to watch, but not a major part of her calls. Murrey Math is fairly complicated, but If you are interested in learning about it, start here: http://www.murreymath.com
You can also google "Murrey Math" and find tons of material about it.
What does A-B-C mean? .
An A-B-C correction, a reference to a frequent wave pattern that often develops after an expansion move.
For example, in a strong up-trend; the market pauses at a new high and then falls back. That fall back is the "A" wave.
The retracement stops, and the price goes back up, but not to the level of the previous high, and then stops. That is the "B" wave.
After the price stops in that up movement, the price falls back again, to a level lower than the low of the "A" wave. That is the "C" correction wave.
Often the previous trend continues after the "C" correction wave is completed, and the price may return to the previous high and continue moving up.
An ABC correction identifies a pause in a trend, normally caused by profit-taking, but not necessarily the end of the trend.
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