FAQs

I trade options. How can fractalerts help me?

Our alerts work brilliantly for options traders. Because we are only focused on the duration and direction of a pattern, you can pick a strike or spread that works for you. After all, everyone has a different level of risk.

fractalerts can also distance you from the reactive side of trading, by giving you clear and unemotional math and physics based information.

What is the typical holding period for one of your trades?

The average duration of the patterns we follow is about 14 days, however some can be as short as 3 days or as long as a month. Put another way, we issue approximately 25 alerts per market over the course of a year.

Where do you place stops?

Mathematical patterns don't include a zero. They alternate from +1 to -1 and back again, like the pendulum on a clock. As such, we alternate from long to short, and then flip to short to long, repeatedly. We never use stops on our trading, as these would take us out of a pattern before it has completed. We use leverage and diversification to manage our risk, however many of our clients use stops as per their own discretion.

Do you offer a free trial?

We would love to have you join us, however we don't offer free trials. And we can see why you ask - there are a lot of services that do. The fact is however, none of these service are managing money. We not only alert you to trades a day in advance, but we follow all of the information we provide to subscribers.

In lieu of a free trial, all of our subscriptions are monthly. You are free to cancel at anytime. We hope you never need to, but the power is always yours.

How do I use fractalerts?

There are two ways traders use our alerts:

  • Banks, funds and passive traders use our alerts exactly as we do. They buy when we buy and sell when we sell. Banks and funds do this to get strategy diversity. Amateurs do it because they don’t know what else to do (and the results have very high average returns).
  • Professional traders use our alerts like any other indicator… as confirmation on trades. We may be in a long position for a week or so and during that time, day-traders may trade 50 times. By using our alerts as indicators, they’ll ignore sell side signals they see thereby reducing the amount of trades they place and increasing their percentage of accuracy.

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