1By Scott Juds, President & CEO, SumGrowth Strategies, Seattle, WA

How StormGuard-ArmorStunningly Tames Bear Markers

April 21, 2016

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Here’s a Poster Child For the Problem

Why StormGuard-Armor?

What’s Going On?Well… a Guy Walks Into a Bar….

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Oooppps,I knocked the

knife off the table

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Yeeeoooo! Why didn’t you stop it from hitting my foot?

You know traders never catch a falling knife.

Why didn’t you move your foot?

I didn’t think it would fall that far!

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Is Momentum Broken or Pausing?

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Is Momentum Broken or Pausing?

Of Course He is Right – Turbulent Markets Have no Trends.

From Yoda Feb 2016

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Is Momentum Broken or Pausing?

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Is Momentum Broken or Pausing?Let’s Examine Strategy History and See

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StormGuard Real Time Performance

• React too fast and you suffer from whip-saw losses when sharp drops often snap back.

• React too slowly and you will get hurt if it really is a major market collapse.

From the Introductory Presentation:

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What’s Wrong With my Strategies?Death Crosses, and the Like, Can Be Fooled by Medium

Term Glitches. That includes StormGuard.

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Poster Child For the Problem

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Why is StormGuard-Armor Better?

It Utilizes Three Sources of Information – Not Just One.

Better Performance Comes From Having More Information – Not Sliding the Problem Elsewhere.

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Why is StormGuard-Armor Better?

It Analyses Three Different Kinds of Market Behavior.

It Incorporates Event Detection, not Simply Timing Adjustments.

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StormGuard-Armor Performance

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StormGuard-Armor Performance

... and the Primary SPDR Sectors?

... and the World Region ETFs?

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StormGuard-Armor Performance

It is Doubly Blessed When w/ Long-Term Treasury Bear Symbol.

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Why Use A Long-Term Treasury?

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Rolling 5-year correlation between US stocks and 5-year Treasury note.

Why a L.T. Treasury is a Problem

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Why a L.T. Treasury is a Problem

Common Mode Noise Reduction

Better Signal to Noise Ratio Means Better

Probability of Higher Returns Next Month.

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Let’s Improve These Live Online

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StormGuard-Armor

Before

After

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SectorSurfers Don’t Walk on Water