KISS on a basket of ETF's a financial advisor might use

    Posted by matt on 19th of Nov 2022 at 02:02 pm

    the image contains ETF's that an adviser might place his clients into but remember the adviser never sells, he only rebalances. This contains the DVT's
    SPY - long about a month ago
    SSO long about a month ago
    SPSM SPX 600 small cap - long a month ago 
    QQQ back long
    VYM Vanguard high dividend yield - back long over a month ago, probably my fav ETF in this maket
    VOO Vanguard SPX
    VT  Vanguard total world long 1.5 weeks ago
    EEM - emerging markets  back long 2 weeks ago
    PDCB - commodities
    UPP - US Dollar - stopped out last week, back long yesterday
    JKK - high yield corporate, went back long in late Oct
    TLT - 20 year bonds -went back long a week ago

    You could easily create a

    Posted by jonesy85 on 20th of Nov 2022 at 05:28 pm

    You could easily create a following of 50k on twitter with these signals and charge a monthly subscription fee if you track and provide performance data.  There’s several services charging $125 a month for signaling services but nothing like this. 

    Jonesy85 blowing us normal guys

    Posted by DigiNomad on 20th of Nov 2022 at 07:32 pm

    Jonesy85 blowing us normal guys out of the water. Was fun swimming with other people who reooil at $125 per month pricing. Sigh. This is how people in Texas feel when Californians move in 😥

    One suggestion for marketing: consider CUTTING prices by 50% or more and then launching some social media ad campaigns. Polar opposite of the way it seems to be going, but I think it would massively increase the subscriber base relative to the other option of raining current subscription prices.  

    Think about it this way - what account size does the everyday man need to have in order to justify a BPT subscription? Well, there isn't a right answer, but suppose someone pays $300 per 6 months or $600 annually for BPT.  If the potential subscriber has a $10K account (self directed), then I think most of us would agree that paying 6% for a newsletter is shooting themselves in the foot. If they have a 20K balance then it is 3%...stil really high. 40K is 1.5%...still high. Let's say .75% of tradable assets is a reasonable fee to be paid by a consumer of a newsletter service. That means your  base level clientele should have at least 80K in a tradable account. All of the sudden you're in fairly rarified air. If you keep the prices lower, even lower them from current levels, it's not completely unlikely that you would not only gain total subscribers, but would keep existing subscribers in the fold for longer. 

    yeah there's many ways one

    Posted by matt on 20th of Nov 2022 at 08:26 pm

    yeah there's many ways one could do things. it's also been 11 years since we increased prices, and people worrying about $10 or $15 in a month a couple of coffees at Starbucks, folks should focus their energy on their trades and investments, vs something a charge that is basically noise to their accounts.
    yes we need more social media presence but at the end of the day I'm so tired and barely enough time for what I do now - I'd have to hire people to do, which costs money, and find someone who is worth a damn at doing it, not easy.  Also, pricing things too cheaply tends to attract a lot of non-serious folks and turnover. In dealing with this stuff for 19 years now, I've found that generally my biggest pain in ass customers, who write me 30 emails and complain about this and that, are the ones who have $5000 to their name and shouldn't be trading at all. Next year I would like to launch my ETF basket, and that's probably something that would be an add on - if it's a good product and has value, people will pay for it. Even for the SPY and ES systems, there' been 110 trades this year, average profit of 250 - 300 per trade.  I see your points, I just don't think that's the right direction for us, and we are not good at marketing anyway, at the end of day we'd end up with 1/2 the money and probably not many more customers. 

    I see all your points,

    Posted by atait on 21st of Nov 2022 at 11:12 am

    I see all your points, well thought out

    Makes sense to me. I

    Posted by DigiNomad on 20th of Nov 2022 at 08:34 pm

    Makes sense to me. I like the product the way it is! I think I entered this thread because of the Twitter discussion I ran across. I made the assumption that meant that you were considering a social media type campaign in the future. 

    Hahaha I have been suggesting

    Posted by kevindeng0727 on 20th of Nov 2022 at 05:43 pm

    Hahaha I have been suggesting Matt for long time to try Twitter

    Personally, I love Twitter, if

    Posted by brophy on 21st of Nov 2022 at 09:14 am

    Personally, I love Twitter, if only to communicate with people you cannot usually reach. I've had small conversations with Ed Snowden, Mike Santoli of CNBC, Tom Brady (who also used one of my marketing ideas), the Gov of Colorado about her policies, and recently Elon himself, about the obvious subject.

    That's pretty cool.  I got

    Posted by fredsaid on 21st of Nov 2022 at 09:28 am

    That's pretty cool.  I got sick of it when they changed the interface to look like facebook/instagram scroll forever in both directions and ads out the wazoo.   Haven't used it much other than to follow shopping or event broadcasts to get ahead of queues.

    I hadn't noticed that. With

    Posted by brophy on 21st of Nov 2022 at 09:41 am

    I hadn't noticed that. With Elon opening it up I do get more Tweets from people I don't know (from someone else who's following someone I know) but you can always block them. PS A lot of great T.A. traders on there, too. Ideas you don't see everywhere else. And it's a good marketing tool, Matt and Steve!

    some of you looking to

    Posted by mitchell on 20th of Nov 2022 at 05:50 pm

    some of you looking to dilute BPT? Reality is signals adopted by many end up working less. Ive already noticed this in past on some trade triggers.

    LOL I wish we had

    Posted by matt on 20th of Nov 2022 at 06:42 pm

    LOL I wish we had that problem, but our systems are not moving the market - I wish we had that kind of pull. that's nothing to be concerned about

    You may not be market

    Posted by timebandit on 20th of Nov 2022 at 06:56 pm

    You may not be market movers, but I have found you and Steve to be market maestros.

    I hope the upcoming holidays are good for everyone here. I will be tuning in but not glued to it. This is a time for family and recharging.

    yep exactly, and I hope

    Posted by matt on 20th of Nov 2022 at 07:18 pm

    yep exactly, and I hope on my side to do some much need work on the backend (systems and website) and not focus as much time on trading

    Hi Matt,  really like  the

    Posted by imelhoe on 20th of Nov 2022 at 07:52 pm

    Hi Matt,  really like  the trading live  interactive charts that you post for us.  Is there any way you can also post it for NQ, rut, and the related etfs like qqq, iwm and dia?  i have the trading view app but don't have the lines drawn in like you do on your live stream. TIA!

    yes the Trading View stuff

    Posted by matt on 20th of Nov 2022 at 08:27 pm

    yes the Trading View stuff is something I would like to expand upon  next year

    Kobeissi letter has over 3200

    Posted by jonesy85 on 20th of Nov 2022 at 05:32 pm

    Kobeissi letter has over 3200 follows on a private twitter feed for his signals. $400k +

    awesome KISS charts Thank you

    Posted by srusso1 on 19th of Nov 2022 at 02:21 pm

    awesome KISS charts Thank you

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