Jan Arps' Traders' Toolbox
3607 Friendly Acres Drive
Greensboro, NC 27410
Phone:  336-282-1237

Product:  The Swing/Day Trader’s Tool Kit is a proprietary add-on for swing/day traders utilizing TradeStation. The suite of “studies” (tools) is specifically designed for the analysis of price swings in all time frames.

Requirements: Nothing beyond the requirements for TradeStation.

Price:  $1,795.00 one-time fee. 

Product Overview

A Swing trader tries to exploit the swings of the market with as little exposure to risk as possible. Swing trading consists of looking for optimum times to jump in at the beginning of a new swing and exiting at or near the end of that swing to await the development of a new swing trading opportunity.

The above quote is found in the manual that accompanies the Swing/Day Traders Toolkit, one of many products Jan Arps has developed over a long career of studying the markets, trading, and developing tools for analyzing markets. The quote points to the essential purpose of Arps’ Swing/Day Traders’ Tool Kit, and that is to spot and ride the “swing” of a trade to profit. As any trader knows, timing markets is difficult at best, so refined tools that help you do this are not only appreciated, but needed as well. Arps’ has designed an elegant suite of customizable tools that could improve your trading, which will improve your trading profit. These tools derive from the mind of a man who clearly understands the dynamic forces that move markets and the shapes those movements might take.

Although market movements may “… appear to be random, there is, in fact, an underlying pattern and logic to their movement that is based on the laws of physics, geometry, and the dynamics of crowd behavior. Understanding these patterns and the reasons for them can greatly improve your chances for success as a trader.

This understanding is what makes the Swing/Day Trader’s Tool Kit so valuable and effective. Simply, the goal of the toolkit is to allow a trader to exploit market swings with as little exposure to risk as possible. If you are a polished, disciplined trader, and you use the tools as described in the documentation, you will limit your risk and increase your success. One more thing, make sure you read the documentation because it is an integral part of the tool kit. This well written information source is somewhat rare in the world of trading software. The documentation not only directs you to using the tool kit to your best advantage, it provides in-depth information about the movements of markets and trading those moves. It is a learning tool unto itself.

Key Features

• Documentation that provides a wealth of information about understanding market movements, and a clear explanation of the tools in the tool kit, as well as how to use them.
• Two tools that recognize patterns for complex wave structures
• Five tools that define trading channels
• Six tools that define support/resistance levels
• Three tools that provide percentage retracementanalysis
• Four oscillators  that identify turning points in the market’s swing pattern
• Ten tools (Up/Down PaintBars) that reveal overall trend direction
• The toolkit meshes beautifully with TradeStation.
• It is easy to install.
• The functionality is excellent.
• Easily customizable for particular trading styles.

Other Positives

• The toolkit meshes beautifully with TradeStation.
• It is easy to install.
• The functionality is excellent.
• Easily customizable for particular trading styles.

Conclusion

Software for all trading types abounds, but software that focuses on one particular trading style and provides efficient, sophisticated tools is, well, welcome indeed. Arps’ Swing/Day Traders’ Tool Kit is such a piece of software, but to add sugar on top of cake, the fact that Jan Aprs has designed and built this software is a major selling point. You see, Arps is a real trader who understands the needs of traders, and his solid career as both a trader and designer of market-based tools (studies) has gained him clients around the world who ask him to convert sophisticated trading concepts into trading solutions. If you want to know more, here is the web site: http://www.janarps.com/main/.

Check out the web site, as well as the Swing/Day Trader’s Tool Kit. If you do, you will be suitably impressed, and, perhaps, rewarded for your efforts.