Thinking Stuff's ATM

Automated Trading Machine (ATM) makes it simple to remove fear and greed from your trading. Automated trading is no longer just for the rich or nerdy. Our revolutionary software runs on your computer, using your trading rules, but none of your emotions. There's just one requirement - you know how to use a mouse.  Learn more...

Thinking Stuff's ATE

Automated Trading Execution (ATE) is where we run your trading systems for you on our servers. Your system can be exported from ATM, or written in plain English and we'll make it for you. We'll even backtest and suggest improvements if you want us to. This service essentially automates your automated trading.  Learn more...

Thinking Stuff's Groups

Join a group of like-minded individuals, and help each other to trading success. Once you join a group, you will have access to that group's trading systems, ideas, and feedback. And please contribute your own knowledge as much as possible. Or contact us to start your own group.  Learn more...

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We can help you if...

 
Trading is affected by your emotions

There's no escaping your emotions. Your next trade is affected by the result of your previous trade whether you win or lose. Often you'll lack confidence or have too much of it. You'll stay in a trade when your rules are telling you to get out (greed), or you won't enter a trade when your rules are telling you to get in (fear).

Automated trading solves this problem. Having your computer decide when to enter and exit a trade removes your emotions from the equation.

ATM     Takes your trading rules and does the trading for you on your computer. The rules are whatever you want - not ones we have preset.
ATE     We take your trading rules and we do the trading for you on our servers.

 
You don't have the computer skills to set up automated trading

Automated trading is nothing new. And running automated trading from your computer is nothing new. You can use MetaTrader, TradeStation, Ninja Trader, Wealth-Lab, whatever. So what's stopping you? Complexity.

To set up your trading rules in any of those products mean that you need to learn their respective programming languages. Here are some examples. And we look at the code on that page, and we think to ourselves "WHY?!" It can be so much easier.

ATM     Pick from any combination of trading rules using your mouse - no programming knowledge or special computer skills required.
ATE     Tell us your trading rules in plain English and we'll enter it into ATM for you. And do the auto-trading for you too.

 
You don't know which trading rules to use

Intuition can be a powerful decision making tool, and it's possible that's what you've been using until now. And that's fine if you guessed correctly more often than you guessed incorrectly. But it's hardly repeatable or measurable, and you'd better believe that your intuition is clouded by whatever emotion you're feeling at the time.

You need to come up with clear, defined, repeatable, measurable, yes/no rules for when to enter a trade and when to exit. Your computer can take these kinds of rules and do the trading for you. Moreover, your computer can take these kinds of rules and tell you how well they worked historically (called backtesting).

Backtesting is an important first step in the Quality Assurance you should perform before risking real money in the markets. However, there are more steps after that. And read here before relying too much on backtesting results alone.

ATM     Lets you backtest any combination of trading rules over any symbol and any time period. You can experiment and find which rules work best together.
ATE     We can do the backtesting for you.
Forums Work together with complete strangers to come up with profitable rules. (It's not as crazy as it sounds).
Groups Work together with your trusted inner circle to come up with profitable rules, or try to get an invite to an existing group.
Shop Buy rules that somebody wants to sell. The backtesting results have been verified by us. (Read here for the answer to "if it works, why would they sell it?").

 
You use a custom indicator

... so you either need to trade manually off your fancy Excel spreadsheet, or use one of the programs mentioned above that require programming skills.

Not anymore :-)

ATM     You can create custom indicators... wait for it... using your mouse - no programming knowledge required.
ATE     Give us the formula and/or a spreadsheet and we'll enter it into ATM for you.
Forums See if someone will help you with your custom indicator.
Shop Buy a custom indicator that somebody wants to sell.

 
You're new to this trading thing and don't know where to start

Good. No bad habits to unlearn :-p

Start here.
Otherwise, jump straight to the ATM page. Or ATE. Or check the menu for whatever looks interesting.