When you adopt the belief that a trading system can be described by the R-mulitple distribution that it generates, it provides some incredible advanatages. One of them, I believe, is the ability to classify and rank systems. Those of you who have looked at the 2nd edition of Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom may have noticed that I started to do this with newsletters. We'd like to continue that, but we need R-multiple distrubtions on a lot more newsletters. Perhaps we can get those with your help.

But also I'm looking to be able to rank systems by the R-multiple distribuiton. Here's where I need your help. If you'd like to participate (and share in the results as they come out), then send me a brief description of your system with some basic descriptive material plus your R-multiple distribution. In addition. I need the dates of the trading and what you were trading.

Typical descriptiopns might include:

* Trend following after a retracement.
* Swing trading after a failed test.
* Band trading with a trend folloiwng filter.

It will probably take a couple of years, but what I suspect is that we'll be able to rank and classify systems amazingly well with this data.

For example, I alrady know with newsletters that value oriented newsletters will probably be the most successful (due to some of the limitaitons of newsletters).

And I've seen some amazing results with systems. If you'd like to participate, send me info about your system at info@iitm.com (Describe it generally, tell me what you trade, how many trades you have R-multiples for, and the datas of your trading). I'll let you know if its useful or if we'll need more/different data.

Thanks,

Van