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The<br />

Nirvana Club<br />

The International Trading Club Exclusively for OmniTrader Users<br />

NOW is THE<br />

TIME to JOIN!<br />

Introducing<br />

NEW Associate<br />

Level Membership<br />

MEMBERSHIP<br />

NEW Associate Level<br />

Membership. The limited<br />

one-time offering of a new<br />

affordable membership<br />

level makes it easier than<br />

ever to join the best Trading<br />

Club in the world. p15<br />

Also In This Issue:<br />

p3 All Aboard!<br />

p4 The Ultimate Trading Machine Quest<br />

p6 ARM—Artifi cial Intelligence for Traders<br />

p8 Profi table Strategies for Club Members<br />

p10 NSP: Wealth Building Machines<br />

p12 Nirvana Club Member Benefi ts


Wel<strong>com</strong>e to<br />

the<br />

Nirvana Club<br />

Associate Level Membership Available!<br />

Ed Downs<br />

CEO & Founder<br />

When I started Nirvana Systems in 1987,<br />

my goal was to <strong>au</strong>tomate the trading<br />

process. The pursuit of profitable<br />

<strong>au</strong>tomated trading technology has led me to create<br />

many products over the years. But the byproduct of<br />

this work has been the development of something<br />

even more valuable than anything I envisioned back<br />

then—the Nirvana Club.<br />

Each year, we have continued to improve our ARM<br />

Signal Generation technology, providing better<br />

tools and more profitable Strategies for members.<br />

And <strong>2010</strong> is proving to be very significant for two<br />

important reasons.<br />

This year we improved our Neural Network<br />

technology so dramatically that we are beginning to<br />

regularly see Strategies that exceed 80% accuracy.<br />

This is the first requirement of our Ultimate<br />

Trading Machine mission.<br />

The second reason <strong>2010</strong> is a landmark year is, for a<br />

limited time, we have opened up a new Associate<br />

Membership level. It’s half the cost of our regular<br />

membership, and includes ALL the benefits except<br />

the NSP Strategies (which can be acquired later<br />

using the Nirvana Club discount.)<br />

Members continually tell me, “My Nirvana Club<br />

membership is the best investment I have ever<br />

made.” And it’s easy to see why they say that when<br />

you look at all that <strong>com</strong>es with a membership.<br />

All members get access to our advanced ARM4<br />

technology, making it easier than ever before to<br />

create profitable Strategies. You also get our ARM4<br />

Strategies powered by Chart Pattern Recognition.<br />

Additional benefits include Education for<br />

Members, access to our active Nirvana Club<br />

Community, Product Discounts and Priority<br />

Support. And of course, participation in the<br />

Ultimate Trading Machine mission.<br />

And, for a limited time, new members also get<br />

our powerful T3 Strategies AND OmniTrader<br />

Professional with OmniPilot! (See pages 7 and 9.)<br />

The VALUE of a Nirvana Club membership<br />

is incredible! And with the new Associate<br />

Membership, all OmniTrader and VisualTrader<br />

owners can join the Club at an affordable price.<br />

I decided to open this new level bec<strong>au</strong>se I want<br />

all of our loyal Nirvana customers to join the Club<br />

this year. But we are ONLY keeping it open for a<br />

very small window of time. Read about this special<br />

new membership on page 15.<br />

And...Wel<strong>com</strong>e to the Nirvana Club!<br />

Sincerely,<br />

Ed Downs<br />

CEO & Founder<br />

Nirvana Systems, Inc.


ALL ABOARD!<br />

It’s <strong>2010</strong>—the start of a new decade.<br />

This is the perfect time to regroup,<br />

reassess, and prepare for the future.<br />

As you engage the markets in 2011 and<br />

beyond, you will want all the firepower you<br />

can get at your disposal, including great<br />

Strategies, savvy traders to collaborate with,<br />

and education on how to maximize your<br />

profits. And that’s precisely what we’ve<br />

built into the Nirvana Club—the Greatest<br />

Trading Organization in the World.<br />

A.I. for Traders<br />

Over the next pages, you are going to learn<br />

about the significant breakthroughs we have<br />

made this year on our Artificial Intelligence<br />

technology. With recent improvements to<br />

ARM4, we are now able to dramatically<br />

improve the accuracy of our Strategies.<br />

Read the exciting story on pages 5-7.<br />

Nirvana Club Value<br />

You will also learn about the significant<br />

assets we have built up in the Nirvana Club,<br />

which have dramatically increased the value<br />

of a membership. In addition to ARM4,<br />

you get deep discounts on our products,<br />

including data. You also gain access to<br />

our very active member Forum, trading<br />

education webinars, the annual BASH<br />

meeting and more.<br />

NEW! Associate Level<br />

With the new Associate Membership<br />

Level*, joining the Club is easier and more<br />

affordable than ever before. As we start a<br />

new decade, let the Club empower YOU<br />

to meet your financial goals. Now, more<br />

than ever before, is the right time to join<br />

the Nirvana Club.<br />

* The Associate Level is only being offered<br />

for a limited time. See page 15 for details.<br />

10 for 10. This chart on Haliburton illustrates the power of ARM4. It was generated by<br />

running all ARM4 Stocks Strategies.<br />

It’s Your Time to Join!<br />

Profi table Strategies<br />

New ARM4 Strategies demonstrate<br />

large profi ts in Real trading.<br />

100% Automation<br />

Total <strong>au</strong>tomation on any Strategy<br />

with just a few clicks.<br />

NEW Associate Level<br />

Limited Time Offer makes it easy<br />

and affordable to join.<br />

Join the Associate Level Membership and SAVE!<br />

3


ULTIMA<br />

THE<br />

Tradin<br />

The Quest for 100% Automated Trading Systems<br />

Istarted Nirvana Systems to develop a fully<br />

<strong>au</strong>tomated Trading System—a system so<br />

accurate, you could turn it loose to trade the<br />

markets or have it alert you by cell phone to<br />

interactively place and manage trades. I would call<br />

such a system The Ultimate Trading Machine.<br />

The “Software Robot”<br />

In 1989 Frank T<strong>au</strong>cher, <strong>au</strong>thor of The SuperTrader’s<br />

Almanac, conferred his Product of the Year Award to<br />

our Software Robot called KLATU. It had the ability to<br />

run other software from the outside, just like a person<br />

would do. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I decided to<br />

harness the analysis power of programs like MetaStock<br />

and TBSP. In other words, use these programs to find<br />

signals and then <strong>au</strong>tomate everything else.<br />

The OmniTrader Project<br />

The only problem was the programs we were <strong>au</strong>tomating<br />

weren’t powerful enough. We soon realized we were going<br />

to have to create our own trading technology. In 1993 we<br />

started the OmniTrader project, based on the Adaptive<br />

Reasoning Model, or ARM for short.<br />

OmniTrader is a giant leap forward in <strong>au</strong>tomated trading<br />

technology. I continue to get letters from customers who<br />

are amazed at how much it does and how little we charge<br />

for it! But this first version of ARM still wasn’t quite<br />

powerful enough for a fully <strong>au</strong>tomated Trading System.<br />

I was able to run some experiments and concluded that<br />

by applying specific market measurements and building<br />

rules using a Genetic Algorithm, it should be possible to<br />

determine the probability of a given signal being correct<br />

based on specific <strong>com</strong>binations. We just needed resources<br />

to devote to the research.<br />

The Nirvana Club is Born<br />

Then an idea occurred to me, “Would our customers be<br />

willing to partner with us” We could create a club, charge<br />

a membership fee, and apply the new funding to the<br />

development of these advanced trading technologies. The<br />

members would receive the products as they were created,<br />

and the <strong>com</strong>pany would continue on the mission until a fully<br />

<strong>au</strong>tomated Trading System called The Ultimate Trading<br />

Machine was realized.<br />

Since the Club was originally founded, we have enjoyed many<br />

successes, with each building on the last. We have applied<br />

significant resources to the very difficult problem of finding<br />

Trading Systems that consistently beat the market (milestone<br />

synopsis presented below). And I am proud of the fact that we<br />

are now delivering profitable mechanical Trading Systems to<br />

our members.<br />

The Power of ARM<br />

Our ARM technology is second to none in the trading<br />

<strong>com</strong>munity. As the product has advanced, we have continued<br />

to release new and more powerful Strategies to our members.<br />

We also provide the same tools we use for our members to<br />

experiment with. Many members have taken this technology<br />

and either created their own Strategies or significantly<br />

enhanced existing ones. Granted, not all members want to do<br />

this, but the fact that the tools are open to all 2500+ members<br />

means our research can move forward that much faster. We<br />

have some very savvy people in the Nirvana Club.<br />

Every year, we work to improve our ARM technology.<br />

Last year, we added “Dynamic Training” so our Neural<br />

Networks could be trained, validated, and tested over very<br />

large amounts of data. This year, we added “Data Mining”<br />

(see A.I. for Traders, page 6). We have also made many<br />

technical advancements, such as the addition of crossvalidation<br />

network training. The resulting performance<br />

gains have been phenomenal!<br />

Nirvana Club is l<strong>au</strong>nched and<br />

over 300 members joined.<br />

First release of<br />

ARM technology.<br />

Nirvana Club Forums allow members<br />

to <strong>com</strong>municate with each other.<br />

Advanced ARM3<br />

Knowledge Bases.<br />

Artifi cial Intelligence<br />

on Chart Patterns.<br />

OmniTr<br />

Integra<br />

4<br />

1996 1998 2002 2004 2005 20


TE<br />

g Machine<br />

Closing in on UTM<br />

In the graph below, we show Profit per Trade for<br />

various values of Signal Score for one of our recently<br />

trained Neural Networks, demonstrating the fact<br />

that higher Signal Scores generate higher profit! It’s<br />

a simple matter to tell OmniTrader to only trade<br />

signals with the highest scores. Hit rates for the<br />

highest score values are above 80%—our first criteria<br />

for The Ultimate Trading Machine.<br />

Profi t per Trade<br />

14%<br />

12%<br />

10%<br />

8%<br />

6%<br />

4%<br />

2%<br />

Neural Network Performance<br />

0%<br />

40 50 60 70 80 90 100<br />

Signal Score<br />

MISSION:<br />

POSSIBLE<br />

The Ultimate Trading Machine is<br />

defi ned as a Trading System with 80%<br />

accuracy and a Reward:Risk Ratio or<br />

“R” of 3:1.* While such performance<br />

is not required to make money in the<br />

markets, we believe these numbers are<br />

achievable through the use of Artifi cial<br />

Intelligence applied to Trading Systems.<br />

When members join the Nirvana<br />

Club, they enter into a Nirvana Club<br />

Agreement with us. The agreement<br />

states that if and when released, the<br />

Ultimate Trading Machine will ONLY<br />

be made available to Club members.<br />

The membership and I look forward to<br />

wearing a button that says...<br />

“I don’t work.<br />

My <strong>com</strong>puter supports me!”<br />

* In his book, Trade Your Way to Financial<br />

Freedom, Van K. Tharp defi nes R as the<br />

expected profi t divided by the maximum<br />

loss. Consistently high R values mean<br />

higher profi ts bec<strong>au</strong>se losses are kept<br />

much smaller than gains.<br />

Now is the Time<br />

Members will tell you the Club has significantly<br />

exceeded their expectations—not just in terms<br />

of trading technology, but in terms of the many<br />

additional benefits of membership. I want<br />

to encourage you to join while our Associate<br />

membership window is open. There has never been<br />

a more perfect time to join the Nirvana Club.<br />

For performance statistics, charts, and other<br />

information on our recent ARM4 developments,<br />

visit www.nirvanasystems.<strong>com</strong>/nirvanaclub/ARM4.<br />

ader Professional and<br />

ted Brokerage released.<br />

Improved performance on NSP<br />

Strategies by applying ARM3.<br />

ARM4 released with Consensus<br />

Block AI Breakthrough.<br />

Over 2700 members. Neural<br />

Network Improvements.<br />

Fully Automated<br />

Trading Mission<br />

06 2007 2008 2009 <strong>2010</strong> UTM<br />

5


ARM Technology: Artificial Intelligence<br />

A.I. for Traders!<br />

Artificial Intelligence has been used to<br />

improve investment returns in hedge funds<br />

and other proprietary trading shops for<br />

a number of years. But never before has<br />

this kind of technology been available to<br />

individual traders.<br />

ARM2 was first released to the Nirvana<br />

Club in 1998. Since then the technology has<br />

continued to improve year after year, leading<br />

up to the ARM4 version members have<br />

access to today.<br />

In <strong>2010</strong>, we added Data Mining to our<br />

Neural Network process, which dramatically<br />

improved performance. In some cases we<br />

are seeing the profits DOUBLE in our best<br />

Strategies! (See article, next page.)<br />

How Does It Work<br />

As a part of our Nirvana Club research,<br />

we developed a Strategy Block called “NN<br />

Score.” Members who want to train their<br />

own Neural Networks can readily do so,<br />

bec<strong>au</strong>se they have access to the same tools we<br />

use (the sidebar, Improving Strategies with<br />

ARM4 to the right explains the process).<br />

But you don’t have to do this bec<strong>au</strong>se<br />

we provide pre-trained Networks for our<br />

members! Just drop an existing NN Score<br />

block into a Strategy and run the ToDo List.<br />

In most cases, profit per trade will increase—<br />

especially if the signals in the Strategy are<br />

similar to the signals that were used to<br />

train the Network. This is the case with the<br />

Strategies discussed on the next page.<br />

Millions have been invested in the<br />

development of ARM4, which is by far<br />

the most powerful Artificial Intelligence<br />

technology ever created for traders. As a<br />

result of recent advances, we are now seeing<br />

80% Hit Rates in many of our Strategies—<br />

the first performance goal for The Ultimate<br />

Trading Machine.<br />

Improving Strategies with ARM4<br />

We provide canned Networks for our Nirvana Club members to use, but<br />

since members get the same tools we use, they can also create their own<br />

proprietary Strategies. Here is the process:<br />

1. Identify Inputs<br />

First, we identify Market Measurements or “Inputs” that we believe will<br />

help predict a profi table signal. Here are some examples:<br />

· Existence of Price Gaps · CCI Indicator · MACD Histogram Indicator<br />

· DMI Indicator · Bollinger Bands · Distance from Moving Averages<br />

· Current Volatility · Candle Patterns · Differences in Price<br />

2. Perform Data Mining<br />

We then run a “Data Mining” pass on the Inputs and many bars of<br />

price data to fi nd those inputs that have the highest predictability.<br />

Smooth Relationship<br />

for this Input.<br />

3. Train a Neural Network<br />

We then use historical data to train our ARM4 Neural Network<br />

<strong>com</strong>ponent so it learns to fi nd predictive relationships in the data.<br />

At the end of this process, we have an ARM4 Neural Network (NN-Score<br />

Component) that can be dropped into ANY Strategy with similar kinds of<br />

signals to improve Hit Rate and Profi t per Trade.<br />

6


for Traders<br />

Recent Success<br />

To the right is a good example of how<br />

ARM4 improves the profitability of<br />

OmniTrader and VisualTrader Strategies.<br />

Double the Profits!<br />

The T3 Strategies fi nd short-term reversal signals.<br />

The T3 Strategy Suite is one of our best<br />

non-NSP Strategy collection, generating<br />

consistent profits by trading reversal signals.<br />

The first chart shows T3 signals on Google.<br />

T3 does a great job of finding potential<br />

reversal points, but we can see that the<br />

Strategy fired a few unprofitable Long signals<br />

in the downturn that began in January.<br />

We trained a Neural Network using inputs<br />

that are good at predicting reversals, and<br />

applied it to our T3 Strategies. When filtered<br />

by NN Score, the unprofitable signals were<br />

filtered out and the overall profitability of the<br />

Strategy improved. With a Score Cutoff of<br />

60, Profit per Trade more than DOUBLED,<br />

going from 0.60% to 1.5%. Increasing the<br />

score to 70 generated even higher numbers<br />

(with fewer trades) as shown in the table to<br />

the lower right.<br />

This NN Score <strong>com</strong>ponent can be “dropped<br />

into” any Strategy that has similar signals,<br />

such as NSP-41. Additional pre-trained<br />

NN Score <strong>com</strong>ponents are available<br />

to members to enhance other kinds of<br />

Strategies, such as Chart Patterns.<br />

SPECIAL BONUS:<br />

All new Nirvana Club members,<br />

including Associate members,<br />

will receive the T3 Strategies<br />

featured on this page with<br />

your Nirvana Club membership<br />

(a $1,495 value), when you join<br />

by the deadline.<br />

Average Profit /Trade = .60%<br />

Add our Pre-Trained Neural Network with Score “Cutoff” set to 60+.<br />

DOUBLE PROFITABILITY<br />

Average Profit / Trade = 1.3%<br />

The unprofi table signals<br />

were fi ltered out by the<br />

Neural Network.<br />

This Network also improved NSP-41, our other “RTM” Strategy. The following table<br />

shows Hit Rate and Profi t per Trade as Score is increased.<br />

Score 0+ Score 60+ Score 70+<br />

Strategy Hit Rate Profit/Trade Hit Rate Profit/Trade Hit Rate Profi t/Trade<br />

T3-S1 69% 0.61% 71% 1.30% 65% 2.15%<br />

T3-S2 69% 0.64% 69% 1.85% 100% 8.19%<br />

T3-S3 69% 0.66% 71% 1.14% 77% 3.91%<br />

NSP-41 70% 0.86% 75% 2.15% 81% 6.38%<br />

7


ARM4 Profitable Strategies<br />

We have been building and refining<br />

ARM Strategies for over ten years,<br />

and are now at Release 4 (ARM4).<br />

In <strong>2010</strong>, the Data Mining improvements<br />

we made to ARM4 have led to further<br />

performance gains. We now provide over 20<br />

powerful Trading Strategies that consistently<br />

generate profitable trading candidates.<br />

Artifi cial Intelligence on<br />

Chart Patterns<br />

Our ARM4 Stocks Strategies demonstrate<br />

over 70% accuracy in forward test data. But<br />

by far, the most significant advancement on<br />

Stocks has been the development of Chart<br />

Pattern signals filtered with ARM4. Nirvana<br />

Systems has been a pioneer in advanced<br />

Chart Pattern Recognition.<br />

ARM4 Trendlines on Mastercard<br />

The charts to the right illustrate several signals<br />

from our ARM4 Trend Line and Support<br />

Strategies. We have Networks trained for each<br />

pattern discussed in my book, The 7 Chart<br />

Patterns That Consistently Make Money—<br />

some of which are showing Signal Accuracies<br />

(hit rates) in excess of 80%. 1<br />

Special Strategies for Futures<br />

For our Futures Level members, we have<br />

created ARM4 Strategies based on<br />

continuous futures contracts. ARM4<br />

works well on Futures, as Chart Patterns<br />

within individual contracts repeat so often.<br />

We often see 70% to 80% Signal Accuracies<br />

generated by these Strategies. To the right<br />

is a recent chart for ARM4 Trendlines on<br />

a continuous contract for Gold.<br />

ARM4 Support on Berkshire Hathaway<br />

1<br />

For additional chart examples and statistics from<br />

our ARM4 Strategies, see www.nirvanasystems.<br />

<strong>com</strong>/nirvanaclub/ARM4.<br />

8<br />

ARM4 Trend Lines on Gold


THE PLATFORM for the<br />

ULTIMATE<br />

Trading Machine<br />

Included<br />

with Your<br />

Membership<br />

The primary goal of our Nirvana<br />

Club research is to create<br />

Strategies that can profitably<br />

engage the market. But we also need<br />

a platform to run the Strategies on.<br />

OmniTrader Professional is the perfect<br />

platform for UTM, bec<strong>au</strong>se it <strong>com</strong>es<br />

with OmniPilot—our advanced<br />

<strong>au</strong>tomation tool featuring TradeBots.<br />

TradeBots are very easy to use—just<br />

list the Strategies you want to run<br />

and establish a few simple rules. From<br />

there OmniPilot will run the TradeBot<br />

to execute the trades and manage your<br />

portfolio—<strong>au</strong>tomatically!<br />

OmniTrader Professional also has<br />

a number of advanced features for<br />

Strategy Development, including<br />

OmniLanguage—a trading Strategy<br />

development language that runs 300<br />

TIMES faster than TradeStation’s<br />

Easy Language.<br />

Strategy Automation Made Easy<br />

2<br />

Advanced Software Included! For a<br />

limited time, OmniTrader Professional<br />

and OmniPilot are included with your<br />

Nirvana Club membership. (a $1,995 value)<br />

1<br />

3<br />

1. Specify days to run.<br />

2. Specify Profi le, List, and<br />

Timeframe for Signals.<br />

3. Push START.<br />

RoboCon 2011<br />

For Members Only<br />

We are pleased to announce the next <strong>au</strong>tomated trading <strong>com</strong>petition,<br />

RoboCon 2011! The last <strong>com</strong>petition we held was a phenomenal success,<br />

with members generating APRs over 200% running their mechanical<br />

Strategies using OmniPilot.<br />

Prizes and More: Members fi nishing in the top 3 places earn cash prizes<br />

and Nirvana Club product credit. RoboCon 2011 is being scheduled to<br />

start February 7, 2011. May the best Strategy win!<br />

9


The NSP Strategies:<br />

Wealth Building Machines<br />

Nirvana Systems Proprietary<br />

NSP Strategies are special products<br />

we have been developing for several<br />

years. The goal of NSP is to generate<br />

consistent, long term gains. So far,<br />

the result of this research is two NSP<br />

Strategies, NSP-33 and NSP-41.<br />

NSP-33 Trend Follower<br />

NSP-33 was developed to find the most<br />

profitable entry points in a developed<br />

trend, right in the vicinity of a higher<br />

low or lower high. The chart to the<br />

right depicts typical NSP-33 signals.<br />

NSP-41 Reversal Trader<br />

NSP-41 is another End-of-Day Stocks<br />

Strategy based on the “Reversion to<br />

Mean” (RTM) principle. When markets<br />

get overbought or deeply oversold,<br />

they often return to where they started.<br />

NSP-33 Signal on AMLN. This is typical of the kind of signals NSP-33 fi res—new moves<br />

within an existing trend.<br />

Our research team has spent hundreds<br />

of hours studying the RTM principle,<br />

and NSP-41 is our best Strategy using it.<br />

The chart to the right shows the kind of<br />

trades that NSP-41 regularly generates.<br />

When these Strategies are used together<br />

in the same OmniTrader profile, they<br />

work extremely well. See the opposite<br />

page for an equity curve on the<br />

<strong>com</strong>bined Strategies.<br />

Nirvana Club Member Access<br />

NSP-33 and NSP-41 Strategies are<br />

priced at $3,000, but they are included<br />

in Nirvana Club Stocks and Futures<br />

membership levels. Associate members<br />

can purchase the NSP Strategies at<br />

any time using their Nirvana Club<br />

member discount.<br />

Recent NSP-41 Signals on Ameren. Note how the signals fi re on extreme pull-backs,<br />

anticipating a reversal.<br />

10


NSP-33 plus NSP-41—A Winning Combination!<br />

The equity curve performance<br />

of NSP-33 and NSP-41<br />

<strong>com</strong>bined over the past eleven<br />

years ( January 2000 through<br />

October <strong>2010</strong>) trading all<br />

signals generated by the<br />

<strong>com</strong>bined Strategies on the<br />

S&P 100 list is shown below.<br />

Below the equity curve is a<br />

plot showing performance of<br />

the S&P 500 during the same<br />

time period. Even though<br />

the index was down 4 out of<br />

11 years, the NSP Strategies’<br />

performance have held up,<br />

generating a profit each year.<br />

At Nirvana Systems, we are<br />

managing live accounts with<br />

this Strategy <strong>com</strong>bination, as<br />

are many Club members.<br />

Stocks and Futures Level members have access to the<br />

NSP Strategies. Associate members can purchase the<br />

NSP Strategies at any time using their Nirvana Club<br />

member discount.<br />

Equity Curve for NSP-33 and NSP-41<br />

2000<br />

2001<br />

2002<br />

2003<br />

2004<br />

2005<br />

2006<br />

2007<br />

2008<br />

2009<br />

<strong>2010</strong><br />

$1.45M<br />

Year NSP S&P 500<br />

2000<br />

2001<br />

2002<br />

2003<br />

2004<br />

2005<br />

2006<br />

2007<br />

2008<br />

2009<br />

<strong>2010</strong><br />

50%<br />

8%<br />

26%<br />

39%<br />

20%<br />

21%<br />

11%<br />

31%<br />

31%<br />

51%<br />

10%<br />

-10%<br />

-13%<br />

-23%<br />

26%<br />

9%<br />

3%<br />

14%<br />

4%<br />

-38%<br />

23%<br />

4%<br />

Average Return:<br />

28% per year<br />

$1.1M<br />

$1M<br />

$900K<br />

$800K<br />

$700K<br />

$600K<br />

$500K<br />

$400K<br />

$300K<br />

$200K<br />

$100K<br />

2000<br />

2001<br />

2002<br />

2003<br />

2004<br />

2005<br />

2006<br />

2007<br />

2008<br />

2009<br />

<strong>2010</strong><br />

S&P 500<br />

1600 pts<br />

1400 pts<br />

1200 pts<br />

1000 pts<br />

800 pts<br />

600 pts<br />

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Member<br />

Benefits<br />

The Nirvana Club is More<br />

Than Just Software.<br />

The ARM technology, NSP Strategies and OmniTrader<br />

Professional represent giant leaps in <strong>au</strong>tomated trading<br />

software technology, but they only make up a part of the<br />

total benefit that Club members enjoy. There is nothing<br />

like the Nirvana Club anywhere in the world!<br />

Advanced Trading System Technology<br />

As a Nirvana Club member, you gain access to the current<br />

ARM4 technology. There are different Strategies available,<br />

and members choose their level of membership—Associate,<br />

Stocks or Futures. After one year, you can continue to<br />

receive updates for a nominal annual renewal fee. 1 You<br />

will receive OmniTrader Professional with OmniPilot<br />

when you join. Stocks and Futures members will also<br />

receive our NSP Strategies.<br />

Member Systems and Strategies<br />

Many members are experimenting with the tools<br />

to find new, profitable Strategies and Systems. These<br />

Strategies are uploaded to the Club Forum and the<br />

Back Test and Forward Test results for each Strategy<br />

are listed. The best ones are added to our Nirvana Club<br />

Member Strategies web page and all members have<br />

access to them.<br />

“<br />

Member Discounts:<br />

Software, including VisualTrader<br />

and Plug-ins..........................SAVE 50%<br />

Educational Seminars............SAVE 40%<br />

Subscription Services,<br />

including Real Time Data.......SAVE 30%<br />

Club members enjoy generous<br />

discounts on all Nirvana products,<br />

including software, seminars, and<br />

subscriptions.<br />

In hindsight, I waited too long before joining<br />

the Nirvana Club. As a trader, this has been<br />

without any doubt my best trade investment.<br />

The friendships, knowledge gained, and<br />

sense of belonging have been worth every<br />

cent. Do not make my mistake—take the<br />

step. You will not regret it. – Ric Richardson<br />

”<br />

Current members receive<br />

the latest ARM technology.<br />

Learn the skills you need to win in the markets with<br />

the Nirvana Club Webinar series.<br />

1<br />

See Membership Agreement for <strong>com</strong>plete details.<br />

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The<br />

Nirvana Club<br />

Premier Education<br />

We are here to help you succeed. When you join the<br />

Nirvana Club, you don’t just get software. You get<br />

connected to an elite membership of traders as well<br />

as our talented staff. Nirvana hosts webinars<br />

to empower you and your trading.<br />

The A.I. tools are as powerful as anything the hedge<br />

“<br />

fund managers have. But, what makes the Club really<br />

powerful is the interaction with other members.<br />

”<br />

- Steven Mayo<br />

These live webinars allow you to interact with the<br />

presenters to get the help you need. The webinars<br />

are recorded and archived on the Nirvana Club web<br />

site allowing you to view them at your convenience<br />

and as many times as you like.<br />

Priority Technical Support<br />

Club memberships help finance our research into<br />

the Ultimate Trading Machine goal. For this reason,<br />

Nirvana Club members receive preferred status<br />

and special privileges. Members receive toll-free<br />

access to our Support department, and they receive<br />

priority in the support queue. Just say, “I’m a Nirvana<br />

Club member.”<br />

Nirvana Club Forum<br />

We host the Nirvana Club Directory on our web<br />

site. (Members have a choice as to whether their<br />

names are listed.) Members’ interests are polled,<br />

and members can also upload photos and edit their<br />

profiles for others to read. We have a savvy group<br />

of members from all over the world in the Club.<br />

Once you join, you are instantly plugged into this<br />

<strong>com</strong>munity. The Nirvana Club forums are VERY<br />

active, with over 30,000 posts.<br />

The Nirvana Club BASH Event<br />

Each year, we hold a special Nirvana Club seminar,<br />

which we call The BASH. This event is FREE<br />

for members and their spouses. At the event, we<br />

share research results from the prior year, discuss<br />

new products, and review tips for trading to help<br />

members in their use of ARM and trading in<br />

general. The Nirvana Club BASH is attended by<br />

Club members from all over the world. It’s a great<br />

way to meet lifelong trading partners.<br />

“<br />

Visiting Club members and staff at each year’s<br />

BASH is a defi nite can’t miss event!<br />

”<br />

- Jerry Wakeen<br />

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Testimonials<br />

Member<br />

Testimonials<br />

“I have been a member of the Club for 4 years and I sure am<br />

glad I joined. Club members are always ready to help each<br />

other and as a member, you have the opportunity to participate<br />

in the success and development of Nirvana products. You will<br />

be rewarded over and over again by the success of the Club<br />

Strategies. The money you will make will quickly cover the cost<br />

of joining. Join today and find out what you are missing.”<br />

- Ken Holmes<br />

14<br />

“I’ve been in the Nirvana Club since its inception over 13<br />

years ago. It’s been a fun, exciting and fulfilling experience.<br />

Fun bec<strong>au</strong>se of meeting and exchanging ideas with other Club<br />

members. Exciting bec<strong>au</strong>se of receiving new Nirvana products at<br />

discounted prices and discovering all the new features Nirvana<br />

is developing. And fulfilling bec<strong>au</strong>se I am using the software to<br />

make money in the markets.”<br />

- David Olson<br />

“As a member of the Club for a number of years, I have used<br />

the forum to interact with other members about trading ideas,<br />

and have found the Bash’s hands-on training to be invaluable.<br />

However, the single most valuable benefit of being a Club<br />

member is the ARM technology. Everybody would love to have<br />

tomorrow’s newspaper today or a crystal ball, but this isn’t a<br />

reality. Since I don’t have access to that, I have the next best<br />

thing-ARM. It is the most powerful trading tool I have found.<br />

Keep up the great work.”<br />

- Heagan Bayles, Jr.<br />

“The Club has provided a place for myself and my peers to<br />

<strong>com</strong>municate and has opened up a whole world of sharing and<br />

camaraderie. Bec<strong>au</strong>se of my many years in the Club, my trading<br />

knowledge and success has increased exponentially and I enjoy<br />

sharing my knowledge with other members.”<br />

- Jerome Sigalow<br />

“Joining the Nirvana Club is the best investment decision<br />

I’ve made to date. Thank you for wonderful products and a<br />

support network second to none.”<br />

- Keith Buhl<br />

“I find the Nirvana Club to be useful bec<strong>au</strong>se of the<br />

knowledge and talent that this diverse group of members<br />

has to offer. There have been countless times that a Club<br />

member’s forum post has helped me. The Nirvana Club<br />

allows you to explore ideas and get input from members<br />

from all around the world. The biggest benefit of being a<br />

Nirvana Club member to me has been ARM3. Each release<br />

continues to show what can be done with the powerful tools<br />

and talented team at Nirvana.”<br />

- Michael Hicks<br />

“I have been a member for two years. Access to the Club<br />

forum and other members’ input has helped me be<strong>com</strong>e<br />

a profitable trader. I used Club exclusive tools to build<br />

a Strategy that took second place in Nirvana’s first fully<br />

<strong>au</strong>tomated trading <strong>com</strong>petition. There are Club members<br />

doing research on a daily basis and sharing it with the<br />

<strong>com</strong>munity. I truly believe these Club members are some<br />

of the most brilliant minds in the electronic trading<br />

<strong>com</strong>munity. The original goals Ed Downs set out to<br />

achieve are be<strong>com</strong>ing a reality and I am now part of it.<br />

This is awesome!”<br />

- Todd Phillips<br />

“I have been a member of the Nirvana family for 2 years.<br />

During this time, the many great trading developments<br />

issued by my new “family” have propelled me along the<br />

learning curve. My development as a trader has gone<br />

supersonic as a result of the many things the Club has to<br />

offer. I wish I would have joined sooner.”<br />

- Jeff McClure<br />

To read more testimonials, see www.nirvanasystems.<strong>com</strong>/<br />

nirvanaclub/testimonials.


The Time to<br />

Join is Now!<br />

It is difficult to summarize the enormous value of a<br />

Nirvana Club membership. There are so many benefits<br />

—both tangible and intangible. Members often tell me<br />

that joining the Club is the best investment they have<br />

ever made.<br />

Members have access to our most powerful trading<br />

technology, powered by ARM. They also receive many<br />

additional benefits—free Club seminars, discounts<br />

on products, priority support, Nirvana Club forums<br />

and more. Not to mention the fact that all members<br />

participate in the Ultimate Trading Machine mission.<br />

For a limited time, we are offering a new Associate<br />

membership level. The Associate membership<br />

includes all of the Club benefits listed above. To join<br />

the Club as an Associate member, you must submit<br />

your application before the November 19th deadline.<br />

Members who join at the Stocks and Futures level<br />

get the added benefit of the NSP Strategies discussed<br />

on pages 10-11.<br />

This is the opportunity of a lifetime for you to join<br />

a group of individuals who are dedicated to our<br />

<strong>au</strong>tomated trading mission, with a long history of<br />

discoveries and successes. Considering the value<br />

of all that is included, the membership price is<br />

amazingly low.<br />

We’d like you to be a part of this incredible trading<br />

club. You will quickly discover that the value of a<br />

Nirvana Club membership is unprecedented in the<br />

world of trading. Join us today.<br />

Sincerely,<br />

Ed Downs<br />

CEO & Founder<br />

Nirvana Systems, Inc.<br />

Member Benefi ts<br />

ARM Trading Technology: The most powerful Artifi cial<br />

Intelligence for Traders.*<br />

NSP Strategies: Current Club members get NSP Strategies<br />

FREE, including their ARM versions.**<br />

Education: FREE Access to the Club’s Online Training<br />

Webinar Series.<br />

Community: Network with over 2,700 traders through the<br />

private Nirvana Club Directory, Forum and at the annual<br />

Club BASH Event.<br />

Member Discounts: Receive discounts on products,<br />

including software and subscriptions.*<br />

Free Upgrades: New members are upgraded to OmniTrader<br />

Professional with OmniPilot at no charge. Annual OmniTrader<br />

upgrades are provided FREE to current Club members.*<br />

Membership Levels and Costs<br />

You must be a registered OmniTrader and/or<br />

VisualTrader user to join.<br />

Select your membership level:<br />

ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP<br />

Join by November 19 th .................... $3,000<br />

Futures and Stocks Memberships<br />

PRICE Reg. Join by Nov 19 th<br />

Stocks.................. $10,000 ............... $6,000<br />

Futures................. $11,000 ............... $7,000<br />

Included FREE with your Membership:<br />

OmniTrader Professional - $1,995 regular price<br />

and T3 Strategy Suite - $1,495 regular price<br />

How to Join<br />

Go to www.thenirvanaclub.<strong>com</strong> and go to How to<br />

Join. Print out an application or call us at 800-880-0338<br />

for a copy to be faxed or emailed to you.<br />

*ARM subscriptions can be renewed for $300 per year after the<br />

fi rst year. The annual renewal entitles members to receive ARM and<br />

OmniTrader software updates at no charge, plus certain special offers<br />

and discounts. Memberships are non-refundable. Complete details of<br />

membership are listed in The Nirvana Club Membership Agreement.<br />

**NSP Strategies are included only in the Stocks and Futures<br />

membership levels. Associate members can purchase the NSP<br />

Strategies at any time using their Nirvana Club member discount.<br />

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