Unsolicited testimonials

We don't ask our members to say nice things about us, but they do it anyway — spontaneously, and with no prompting.

So rather than asking members to comment on Nat's methods, we just periodically collect the spontaneous remarks members post in the chat room or in e-mails.

The last time we did this in any systematic way was the summer of 2007. We really should update them but nothing much has changed; the results are pretty much the same. (If you want to see results for recent months, check our Archive).

The summer of 2007 was a very good time to be day-trading S&P futures. (So was the Fall of 2008). The intraday volatility was much higher than normal, and unlike buy-and-hold investors, scalpers love volatility. We don't care which way it goes, as long as it moves.

That summer it was moving a lot, and most of Nat's members made out like bandits. Here's what they were saying on July 11 2007.

And here is a larger PDF file that covers a longer period.

That day, July 11, 2007, Nat posted a new record for a single day's trading. (It was quickly broken. Her current one-day outcome is more than twice as large.)

How does she do it? Sometimes the best answer is simply to let the charts speak for themselves.

Here is a link to a chart that shows her calls on a good summer day, June 21, 2007; here is the chart that shows what she did a little later, July 11, 2007; and here is the last of the series, July 27, 2007.

If you're interested, the Daily Trading Plan and the Daily Review of outcomes for each of those days — and every other day since 2005 — are available in the Archive.