Background

Our principal, Bill Kingsbury, has been an active, full time electronic day trader since 1994, using the rapid style electronic execution systems originally referred to as SOES trading. He started as a customer of Block Trading, Inc. in Houston when there were only two firms in the country doing customer based on-site trading. At that time, there were six traders at Block, and reportedly twelve traders on the east coast at All-Tech Investment Group. That was it!

After making a "stick" profit (one point) on his very first trade, he was given the nickname "StickMan" by one of the Block brokers. Back in those days, he traded in a small back room with DOS-based level II software. The screens were not color coded (only monochrome was available) and only one stock at a time could be displayed on the screens. Managing multiple positions was quite a challenge!

As more and more people began to trade using these systems, he could see the need to stay ahead of the "pack", so to speak. He began to look for ways to move away from the stampede of new traders who always seemed to start their careers trading Intel, Microsoft, Cisco Systems- well, you know the list! His search led him to software development, where he could use his years of programming experience to take his trading to the next level. In 1996, he began developing real-time computer models, from scratch, that mimicked strategies of the early days, when he had to rely on the "feel" of certain indicators, tickers and trading patterns to get a leg up in the market.  This initiated a two year trial and error development period and TradeScan^TM was born! He has traded with it ever since and would never again consider trading without it.

TradeScan^TM has had two profound effects on trading:

• TradeScan^TM alerts have resulted in stock picks that are not in the day trader stampede. This can provide more success with less effort and lower risk because there aren't the "jigs" associated with day trader panic.

• TradeScan^TM alerts allow traders to better "see through" the fancy tools we have today with all the colors and lights and have a better "feel" for what is really happening "behind" the level II screens. This allows traders to recapture the effective trading of stocks that are in the day trader stampede. You might say it makes trading more three dimensional.

Initially, he kept the results of his research and hard work a secret. He traded in a secluded room with much the same attitude as traders had in the early days of SOES when they didn't want any exposure. As with all things, He eventually realized there was something to be gained from team trading and the sharing of ideas with other traders to keep one's mind energized.

Trader's Paradise is the next step in that evolution..........

Happy Trading....

Bill "StickMan"