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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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-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 />
12
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 />
13
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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