Navigate trends profitably,
with confidence and peace of mind
Cutting through the information overload
TrendCompass reports deliver daily trend following signals for investors, traders and hedgers, covering some 200 financial and commodities markets.
TrendCompass is powered by the I-System© whose reliability and effectiveness have been proven through daily use since 2003 and a stellar performance track record in the hedge funds industry.
Market trends are the most powerful drivers of investment performance and systematic trend following is the most reliable way to profit from trends sustainably.
Financial industry generates thousands of research reports each and every day, an overwhelming glut of information. Instead of adding to your reading pile, we analyze market trends and deliver the final product of our research: clear, actionable decisions you can digest in seconds, not minutes per day.
Real-time CTA intelligence
For decades, commodities trading advisors (CTAs) have used systematic trend following as one of the best strategies in active investment trading. Institutions like Nomura, JPMorgan and Rabobank pay close attention to CTAs. Understanding CTA strategies “can provide a strong edge in today’s highly systematized markets.” TrendCompass delivers this edge – effectively, reliably and in real time!
I-System: probably the best trend following model ever built!
We generate our reports with the I-System. The product of more than 20 years of passionate and uncompromising obsession with quality, I-System’s track record in hedge fund management from 2007 to 2019 delivered consistent benchmark outperformance, including against an index of world’s leading, blue-chip CTAs (audited).
Delivering quality decision support every trading day
A reliable and effective trends auto-pilot provides invaluable decision-support. Even only as a ‘reality check’ or a source of ‘second opinion’ to market analysts, TrendCompass gives you the guidance to navigate the markets profitably, confidently and with a peace of mind.
OUR MISSION
Profit from trends - through bull and bear markets!
A typical I-System strategy shows up-trends in blue and downtrends in red. Onset of a down-trend is a signal to reduce or hedge your market exposure. It is equally important to know when to start adding to your exposure again. During the 2008 bear market, I-System achieved a 27% positive net return. The authenticity of these results was audited by KPMG.
Customers testimonials
What our customers are saying about us.
"After having spent countless hours in attempting to develop my own trend following system, I discovered Trend Compass. The simplicity in following the trading recommendations and the excellent results allows me to use this system as my primary investing approach. I do not fear missing any large trends and feel comfortable using this system in any market environment with the majority of my investment capital."
"The daily TrendCompass analysis and commentary is an exceptionally useful guide to understanding financial market trends. These reports have been extremely useful to me in positioning client portfolios and has elevated my ability to advise my clients."
"Alex Krainer’s trend-following insights are the real deal! Following his daily comments and recommended allocation changes - including Bitcoin - I’ve made some of my best trading decisions. I’m letting this winner run!"
"In my experience, TrendCompass is a powerful tool designed to profit from major intermediate term trend breakouts and breakdowns. It complements fundamentally-based trading as a tactical positioning guide as well as a risk-management tool."
"After a few months of receiving the TrendCompass reports I caught over $40 per barrel with its signals when oil price collapsed this year [2020]!! That was very impressive and thank you. Really a good trend compass!"
"TrendCompass provides decision-ready recommendations for navigating to positive investment results regardless of temporal market behavior. Alex Krainer adds context to these recommendations with brilliant geopolitical and economic discussion, occasionally embedded with historically centered references. A succinct, must read."
"With TrendCompass, I found my ‘lighthouse’ which has been extremely valuable as a timely indicator of big market waves. It’s very helpful in my swing-trading strategy as it helps me keep positive focus through my daily trades."
"TrendCompass delivers as promised: reducing complexity to simplicity is very valuable for an investor. With time and results I have learned to trust guidance from TrendCompass."
What you get
Daily e-mail summary
Your daily e-mail summarizes the changes in directional exposure based on previous trading session. An intuitive bar chart shows the recommended exposure so that you can grasp it at a glance.
The reports also include a brief commentary that complements our systematic trend following signals. Primarily, the commentary aims to share important educational content about trading and risk management. In addition, the commentary seeks to spotlight sporadic trading opportunities.
TrendCompass report summary page
The report summary page provides a one-page exposure dashboard for all the markets included in a report. It lists the previous session’s closing prices, the number of strategies used to track each market, their previous exposure (%long or short), the day’s changes and the exposure after the day’s trades:
Detailed breakdown by market and strategy
A frequently asked question:
why multiple strategies?
Q: Why do you have multiple strategies in each market? This is perhaps the most frequently asked question about I-System Trend Following.
A: One of the pivotal challenges with quantitative trading strategies is that all we know is how they've performed in the past. We have no way to predict how any one strategy might do in the future. By relying on multiple strategies we significantly reduce the risk of disappointing results giving us high confidence that collectively, a set of strategies will generate satisfactory results. In investment management, having high confidence in your navigation equipment is key to long-term success.
An army of AI traders!
Use of multiple strategies can perhaps best be appreciated metaphorically: suppose you set aside a $12,000 risk budget to trade the U.S. 30-year Treasury bond. Rather than turning over the whole sum to one trader, you allocate $1,000 to 12 different traders. Instead of one trader buying and selling 12 contracts, you get 12 of them trading one contract each.
All our ‘traders’ have been educated in the same trend following school but each of them has a different trading style: some focus on short-cycle trends, others at medium- or long-cycle trends; some are content to have market exposure most of the time while others spend more time waiting for the right signals and are quicker to cut their losses and/or take profits. As an investor, you know that your traders’ performance will vary, but you can be confident that on average your twelve traders will perform well as a group.
Start today! One-month trial is free!
You wouldn’t buy a new car without giving it a test-drive and the same should be true for a market newsletter so we are happy to send you our Major Markets report for one month free of charge.
TrendCompass Major Markets report
16 key global markets, 12 strategies per market
S&P500, Nikkei, DAX, FTSE, US 30-yr Bond, US 10-yr Note, German Bund, USD/EUR, USD/GBP,
USD/YEN, Brent Crude, NY Light Crude Oil, Copper, Gold, Silver and Bitcoin.
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Systematic trend following entails disciplined adherence to predefined and time-tested rules. It enables traders to keep composure through uncertainty and turbulent market events so they can navigate the trends profitably, with confidence and peace of mind!
THE I-SYSTEM EDGE
CUTS THE INFORMATION OVERLOAD | Information overload and complexity of market analysis are reduced to simple, executable decisions: buy or sell. No need to know the future. |
MEASURABLE QUALITY DECISIONS | Consistency and method in trading allows us to objectively measure the quality of our trading decisions. |
DISCIPLINE | Trading algorithms exclude human error like distraction and emotion. |
NO ROGUE TRADER RISK | Rogue traders are the main cause of major trading misadventures. This risk is a strong deterrent for managers to explore more active approaches to investing. I-System elegantly removes this risk, replacing the human element with quantitative strategies free of human shortcomings. Like industrial robots, I-System strategies perform their tasks without mistakes. |
WORK ETHIC | I-System strategies never lose focus and take no days off. They also don’t demand bonus for their performance. |
THE COST ADVANTAGE | Professional market reports often cost upwards of $15,000/year. An entry level analyst can cost upwards of $100,000 per year. More experienced professionals cost much more than that. Worse, their performance can be unreliable. I-System delivers consistently high quality decision support at a fraction of going market rates. |