claire - just give it some time, there's been 55 trade signals for ES and over 50 for SPY - this is your first foray into them. Most of the time I send out an early warning notification, today I did not, but posted it here a couple times that there would be some trades. Because of the large amount of signals in this volatile environment, you will have plenty of opportunity to see many trade signals. If you missed this one, well there'll be 100 more. it's gonna take time to get into the rhythm and the first thing you have to do is get setup for it with your broker and also you need a plan for how much capital that you plan to allocate to the system trades and what you are going to trade. For example, you mentioned that you are not setup for options -then don't do options, do ETF's instead. I send out trade signals for the ES as well, but you can substitute the SPY related ETF's in place of those should you wish to follow them.  

Again, it may be a bit frustrating for you today, but it's okay, like I said, there has been a total of108 trade signals this year for SPY and ES, you have plenty more coming. You can now get your broker setup properly and decide your trading plan and capital allocation. 

I talked to a subscriber yesterday who has been following the system signals and his trading account is up 50% for the year, and what's more he told me that he struggled on the first handful of trades getting used to them and deciding is plan. Stick around and give it time, I think you will be happy you did