About Active Trading Partners, LLC

Dave BanisterWe combine a thorough understanding of fundamentals with a wealth of technical analysis experience to take advantage of the crowd behavior in the markets. Entering into trades after others have sold and often taken a loss, allows ATP to provide low risk entry points and high upside shortly after our recommendations. Our Chief Strategist, David Banister has been quoted on CBS Marketwatch.com, 321gold.com, Stockhouse.com, Theaureport.com, TheStreet.com, Wall Street Window, and profiled at Top Traders and Your Trading Edge magazine to name a few. He has also been a guest on the national radio show "Money Matter$" in the past. Chris Vermeulen of Thegoldandoilguy.com met David in 2008 as the financial crisis was unfolding. After numerous months of following the trading profits of David and his MRM methods (Mathematical Regression Modeling), Chris suggested that a joint venture be formed and we offer this service to a select group of partners (subscribers). The demand for more active trading advisory services has exploded in the past few years, but we believe very few deliver low risk trades that are consistently profitable. Our track record is in the vicinity of 80% success rates on every trade recommended. If you can be 60% successful in the markets, you can make a lot of money. ATP feels it has room to spare on that bar.

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David is often quoted and featured in various Media outlets on his views on markets and precious metals. (CLICK HERE)

Our Methodology:

David wanted to develop a reliable and consistently profitable method of investing in ETF's and/or individual stocks by entering trades at low risk points, with high upside intact. The methodology really revolves around understanding "herd" behavior as it applies to the markets. Herd or crowd behavior is crucial to understand as it relates to investing in the markets in order to be successful. Elliott wave theory for example, is one of the main foundations that we use at ATP combined with David's MRM timing system to help pinpoint more precise entry and exit points with lower risk. David has spent years studying human behavioral patterns, Fibonacci retracements, and Elliott wave patterns. Investors love to chase stocks up and by doing so, they increase their risk without knowing it. The crowd loves to sell low and buy high, ATP prefers to do the opposite. The question is, how can you consistently buy low and sell high? What if you could consistently buy just before the crowd jumps in and pushes a stock up rapidly? Active Trading Partners, LLC has a strong foundation in fundamental analysis, extensive investment experience, and nearly unmatched technical analysis skills. These all come into play to weed out as much risk as possible, before an "Investment Alert" is delivered. In addition, ATP uses extremely resourceful techniques to uncover reasons why a stock may be up or down, and to determine if there may be some catalysts near term as well, or if the stock should be avoided entirely.

We use a "Tranche Buying" methodology where we recommend 1/3, 1/2, or sometimes a full position buying over various intervals with alerts in real time. We believe that small cap stocks are extremely volatile, with the action often having nothing to do with the fundamentals at all. Therefore, we purposely split up our buying into a new Bonus Tradeable Position into tranches over a few days or even weeks of time. We wait for the opportune pullbacks and then send an Email alert and Web Post to give the specific buy or sell advice to our Partners. This allows us to smooth out our buying averages and get a better low cost entry into a growth stock we like or plan to trade around. The MRM timing signals help us confirm over 1 day ,3 day, and weekly windows when viewing our proprietary charts as to the best entry price and time period.

In most cases, ATP looks for trends that are about to reverse to the upside, after a correction has taken place prior to our recommended entry price. We want to "Wring out the risk" of the trade as much as possible prior to putting our toes in the water. The analogy is taking a lemon and squeezing as much juice as you can out of it, this is what we do with our selections... only we are waiting until most all of the risk to the downside has been removed. There are reliable patterns consistently exhibited by the trading crowd that ATP takes advantage of by entering into positions as others are selling just prior to a reversal back up. ATP has tested these various methodologies exhaustively in up, down, and sideways markets. ATP believes that stocks and sectors move almost entirely based on the sentiment of the crowd at that time, whether bullish or bearish. Understanding human behavioral patterns and knowing at which point to enter into trades and when to exit, helps ATP to provide incredibly accurate and consistently profitable trading results to our partners.

Our methodology is therefore contrarian in nature, as we tend to be scaling into trading positions as a stock or ETF is in the final stages of a correction or decline. We have proprietary signals that help us to weed out potential winners from those we would rather avoid. Our #1 goal is to reduce as much risk as possible before we recommend a trade entry. We also scale into every trade no matter how confident we are. Scaling in over 24-72 hours allows us to control both risk and emotions at the same time. It allows us to lower our average cost 90% of the time after we begin building a position. Our track record speaks for itself, and the cost of membership we expect will be returned to our partners multiple times over by following our advice.

Active Trading Partners, LLC and it's affiliates, employees, directors, officers, and family members are not allowed to own positions in any ATP Investment Alert positions ahead of the partners first receiving the alert. This includes affiliates of Thegoldandoilguy.com and any of it's employees, directors, officers, and family members. ActiveTradingPartners.com is an ethical service and we put our partners interests first ahead of our own. This is a very strict policy and will be strictly enforced. We will disclose when we have a long position anytime we are providing further updates to said position.

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If you have any questions that were not answered please send me an email info@activetradingpartners.com and I will get back to you as soon as possible - David Banister

 

Testimonial:"I have watched the progress and trading of Active Trading Partners, LLC for several months. They have proven to be quite quick and smart about picking some fine selections for the shorter term to intermediate traders. I regularly look forward to our communications.
Roger Wiegand, Editor, Trader Tracks Newsletter & Futures and Commodities Trader-Analyst

 


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"Others focused mainly on chart data and concluded that not only has a top been put into place in gold but that –inevitable upward corrections notwithstanding-the metal is headed for significantly lower value zones. One such detailed analysis – made just three days prior to yesterday’s bloodbath-is certainly worthy of the ‘replay’ button being pushed (maybe several times even) in the wake of the Thursday cave-in. Active Trading Partners’ David Banister appears to have been among the very few who rang the alarm bell prior to the conflagration in the market."

Jon Nadler,
Chief Commentator- Kitco.com - July 2nd 2010


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