http://www.trilogicsgroup.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit RSS Feed Creator Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:10:07 +1000 Hollywood has made an industry out of people who hang in there when the going gets tough: think of Sylvester Stallone in Rocky, Tim Robbins in Shawshank Redemption or Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness among thousands of others. It might sound corny, but the reason these movies strike a chord with audiences is that they inspire us to persevere when we hit rough patches in our own lives. It happens in life and it happened last month with TriLogics. We'll admit it, we received a few emails and calls in the middle of December asking us what was going on since December is often one of the better trading months of the year. Well, we don't like down periods any more than you do, but what happened starting on the 23rd of December, right when most people were breaking for Christmas, is what usually happens if you persevere with TriLogics: the figures started climbing back up. In fact, the combined Trifecta and Percentage Return figures climbed above $400 every single day between the 23rd and the 31st except for the 28th. Don't worry we're not going to try to shop this story around to Spielberg or Scorsese with some kind of Christmas Miracle pitch. In fact, we'd much rather make a boring movie where all TriLogics owners make tons of money every single trading day. But no producer would buy a script like that and no one would want to see it. It wouldn't be exciting, it wouldn't be real, and, unfortunately, it wouldn't be TriLogics. But that's OK. There are rough patches in everything in life worth doing. The point is to persevere, get through the rough patches and prosper in the end. That's what makes for good movies and it's what makes for successful TriLogics users. While we're looking back on 2011 another thing to take note of is that our website figures for the year ended up at $58,567. It's not quite as strong as 2010's figures, but it's more than $2,200 above our yearly average figure for the 7 financial years from 2004 - 2011, which is a great figure for any business. Plus, 2012 started off with a bang for Trifecta, too. On the 2nd of January (the New Year's Day Holiday) in the very first qualifying Trifecta, SR02, our guidelines would have recommended selecting the top 2 runners for 1st place covering 56% of the money, with a Money Gap of 1.97. To fill out your selections we would have recommended taking the next four runners for 2nd and 3rd place. If you had traded according to our web site guidelines that could have resulted in a $601 profit. And if that were a movie, our guidelines would recommend the title: "Won and Done: Happy New Year!" Now, let's get to work on the sequel. http://www.trilogics.com.au/successful-clients.htmlWed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +1000 In case you haven't already noticed, we have changed both the location and format for logging into the members section of TriLogics. Of course, the new login is still on the TriLogics.com.au home page but now you should login at the upper right part of the home page. Until recently the login button was in the lower right corner. You will also note that you can now login directly from the home page with your user name and password instead of clicking a button and adding your details in a separate window. One other change to take note of: we've now added a link so you can have a new password emailed to you if you've forgotten yours. When requesting a new password, please remember to use the same email address that is registered with TriLogics. One final note: we encourage you to get into the habit of logging in at the top right, because although there is still a login button at the bottom left of the page, that button will be removed once we have completed all "back end" work on the website. We hope you're enjoying the TriLogics website's new look! We also hope you were trading last Saturday the 19th. Although it wasn't a spectacular day, it definitely could have rewarded owners who patiently traded throughout the day. If you adhere to a $500 daily target, you could have achieved it and more using both Percentage Return and Trifecta. Often we talk about trading days where it's smart to "get in and get out" quickly with your profits in hand. This past Saturday was one where you could have seen a nice return, but it would have taken you until 4:30pm. Still, with a figure of $660 as posted on our web site, it could have been a very worthwhile Saturday. Despite a few races with data corruption, there were six races that qualified as Percentage Return (PR) trading races spread out over the day. (One side note on that for those interested: we regard any race that does not have a one-minute update from the NSW TAB service as having data corruption and therefore ineligible for trading.) Through all of those PR races, we posted a positive figure of about $150 on our website. Nothing outrageous, but when added to the Trifecta figure toward the end of the day it made for a worthwhile day of trading. The qualifying Trifecta race we're referring to was PR07 at Kembla Grange in New South Wales. As it turns out, it was the one and only qualifying Trifecta of the day. Some days go like that. Guidelines would have recommended covering 60 Trifecta combinations (the maximum to still qualify), but it could have provided you with a return of $510 on that race alone. Combined with the Percentage Return trading we mentioned earlier, owners could have pocketed a total of $660 for the day. It's days like this when the old saying, "patience is a virtue", could also be interpreted as, "patience pays off". http://www.trilogics.com.au/successful-clients.htmlWed, 23 Nov 2011 13:47:41 +1000 Last week there was a lot of excitement about the Melbourne Cup and Black Caviar, but it was no surprise that neither provided TriLogics owners with good money making opportunities if you were following our guidelines. As far as making money, you would have been better off if you were using TriLogics last Monday. Yes, you read that right - Monday. Forget about the Boomtown Rats', "I Don't Like Mondays" and instead go with the mellower Mamas and the Papas', "Monday, Monday". If you had TriLogics running last Monday the 7th of November you would have seen a "picture perfect" Banker Trifecta in SR03. Runner #1, the favourite with a Win Dividend of 1.7, set up perfectly for a Banker in SR03 on Monday the 7th. With that Win Dividend and a red Money Gap of 2.88, it was a perfect opportunity to stand #1 out for first place. If you followed our advice from a few weeks back on double checking what was happening with the money on #1 in the Percentage Return module you would have seen it had a Money Separator of 3.5, which should have been very reassuring. Filling out the rest of the selections as per the guidelines should have seen you take the next four runners (#5, #6, #3, and #9) for second place stopping on a red Money Gap of 1.9, and covering a little over 84% of the money for 1st and 2nd place. With no other red Money Gaps further down the screen, the guidelines recommend taking the rest of the field for 3rd place, and that turned out to be a wise move as the second-to-last favourite (runner #4 with a Win Dividend of 44.2) ended up finishing in 3rd place. The above numbers reflect where things stood when it was time to place your trade, but the lead up to that point would have given you plenty of additional confidence in standing out runner #1 for first place. Starting at 6 minutes out from the scheduled start and moving to the one-minute mark you would have seen runner #1's Win Dividend move from 2.2 to 1.9 to 1.7 (at trading time) and finally closing at 1.6. As one of our senior trainers says, "If that's not a perfect Banker Trifecta, I don't know what is." He goes on to add, "When TriLogics owners are assessing a Banker Trifecta they need to remember that the 2 things they're looking for are: 1.) increased money support and, 2.) big Money Gaps in both the Trifecta and Percentage Return modules. SR03 had all of that." Plus, when trading according to the guidelines there were only 40 Trifecta combinations (which is well under the recommended number) and the top combo was $33. If you had followed along with this, and traded as per the website you could have profited $650 and been done for the day. As Mama Cass from the Mamas and the Papas sang, "Monday, Monday...so good to me." http://www.trilogics.com.au/successful-clients.htmlWed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +1000 A message from a TriLogics user last week reminded us of Clint Eastwood's famous line from the movie, "Dirty Harry". You probably already remember the line, but just in case here's the setup. Harry is in a diner when a bank robbery occurs across the street. He and his .44 Magnum take care of 2 of the bad guys while one lies wounded in the street. As Harry walks up aiming his gun, the wounded robber looks at his own gun just within reach. Before the robber can reach for the gun, Harry tells him, "I know what you're thinking. 'Did I fire six shots, or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself...so you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" That's not a question we encourage TriLogics users to ask themselves before they place a trade. Instead, we hope a client would say to himself, "No matter happens with this trade, I'd do the exact same thing again because I've followed my system. Luck has NOTHING to do with it." So, why are we bringing this up? Because about a week ago a TriLogics owner wrote that CR02 on the 18th of October showed a very nice payout of $959 on a $400 trade. Whenever a client talks about a return like that we're very happy for them...unless it turns out that they had luck on their side instead of the system. Let's take a closer look. When one of our senior trainers checked the race he found CR02 didn't qualify as one of our trading races. Hmmm... Did we miss something? The only way to find out for sure was to check, because we definitely wanted to know if we had the right number of bullets in our gun. After a good look, it became clear that CR02 on the 18th certainly could have been a winner with 36 Trifecta combinations with a payout of $959...but NOT if you were following our Trifecta guidelines. After examining the race, the likely situation was that the owner had looked at what the software had pre-selected, which was close to 50%, 70% and 90%, and left the first place selections as they were, which was fine because they ended on a red Money Gap. But it was second place that had our trainer shaking his head. It looked like the owner had removed 1 runner for second place, (probably because it wasn't attracting enough money), and then left the pre-selections for third place down to 90% using an allowance. Following the rules for first place and third place and ignoring them for second place isn't the way to go, because there was no red Money Gap to stop on for second place. At that point, our owner must have been feeling lucky, because he wasn't following our system. Of course, you will sometimes have luck on your side and do well, as in this case. But if you remember what happened in "Dirty Harry" after Clint's famous line, he pulled the trigger and there were no more bullets left in his Magnum. Harry had bluffed the baddie. But the wounded "punk" had already surrendered. Clint ended up lucky. Of course he did: he's the good guy, he's the star, and...it's a Hollywood movie. In real life...in TriLogics...we strongly encourage you leave luck to the punters and follow the guidelines that are part of training. At the very least, do that until you become experienced enough to develop your own system. And by that time you'll know that you should still follow a system instead of relying on luck. Dirty Harry is a great movie character, but he'd make a lousy TriLogics owner.http://www.trilogics.com.au/successful-clients.htmlWed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +1000 Right from the beginning we need to make one thing clear: Black Caviar was not involved in a recommended TriLogics trading race when the sprinter won her 14th straight race. Having said that, we ARE going to spend a few minutes analysing this non-trading race for 2 main reasons. The first reason it's worth talking about MR04 is because it was the race where the Care for some caviar with your TriLogics? Right from the beginning we need to make one thing clear: Black Caviar was not involved in a recommended TriLogics trading race when the sprinter won her 14th straight race. Having said that, we ARE going to spend a few minutes analysing this non-trading race for 2 main reasons. The first reason it's worth talking about MR04 is because it was the race where the great Black Caviar equaled one of Phar Lap's greatest records. Because of that, we know that some racing enthusiasts would have watched the race while keeping an eye on TriLogics to follow the money. The second reason this race (the Schillaci Stakes) might be of interest to TriLogics owners is that even though it didn't qualify as a trading race by our standard guidelines, at least a couple of TriLogics users have reported that they did trade the race based on the strength of Black Caviar. Let's look at the "money-story" that led them to trade and win handsomely on this non-qualifying race. The Schillaci Stakes (MR04) took place at 1:20pm on Saturday the 8th of October. Since TriLogics never mentions a horse's name, you might have had to check the TAB website or other source to see that the #6 runner was Black Caviar. Of course, if you knew she was running in this race, and you have been paying attention to the news, the fact that the #6 runner had a Win Dividend of 1.1 would have provided a huge hint that #6 was Black Caviar. It's crystal clear that Black Caviar is an extremely strong favourite. In fact, she's too strong for the race to qualify as a Banker Trifecta which requires a Win Dividend of 1.5-1.7. As we said though, because Black Caviar has NEVER LOST, and the money reinforces her status as favourite, some TriLogics users saw her 6.73 red Money Gap and were confident enough to stand her out to win. The next step was to cover runners for the 2nd and 3rd place positions. What we have been told by TriLogics users, is that with Black Caviar chosen as their only runner for first, they proceeded to cover 96.5% of the money for 2nd and 3rd down to the next red Money Gap. That would have yielded 12 Trifectas. In the past, we have often recommended flipping back to the Percentage Return screen for reassurance when trading the Banker Trifecta. If you had done that, you would have received strong confirmation regarding standing out Black Caviar. Over the last 5 updates Black Caviar (runner #6) attracted $32,000. The second favourite, Karuta Queen, attracted $5,000. The next two runners attracted about $1,000. So if a TriLogics owner had flicked back to the Trifecta screen to make that trade they could have had an excellent return of $330. Another important note regarding the software is that although the winning Trifecta only paid $10.70, the TriLogics software allocated $69 out of $400 to the winning combo, and that's what lead to the healthy reward for this trade. Again, we note that this was NOT a trading race according to our guidelines and we will NOT include that $330 as part of our website figures. All going well, Black Caviar's next scheduled start is the 1200m Schweppes Stakes on the 22nd of October atMooneeValley, which is Cox Plate day as well. If you're using TriLogics on that day, you may want to keep an eye on the size of the field and the other factors in that race. It's likely that this might be another interesting race, even if doesn't qualify under normal trading guidelines. After all, Black Caviar is anything but normal.http://www.trilogics.com.au/successful-clients.htmlWed, 19 Oct 2011 08:43:46 +1000 Some TriLogics owners have told us that they sometimes get a bit nervous about trading the Banker Trifecta strategy. We understand and we're here to help. "But you don't understand," we've been told, " I don't like standing-out a single runner to Win. I'd rather have two or three runners to Win in my combinations, instead of just one. " Well, we do understand. We especially understand that some newer owners might feel that way and that's why we're passing along a TriLogics Tip that should help those owners. Believe this: It's very important to keep "the Banker" as part of your normal trading arsenal. It can provide you with great money making opportunities. And that's exactly what it did last Saturday the 24th. . So, to help boost your confidence, try using the TriLogics Percentage Return (PR) module to double check the strength of the favourite. It might very well give you the confidence to make a winning trade. Last Saturday, the 24th of September, MR02 was shaping up to be a beautiful Banker Trifecta. To make things even better, MR02 was scheduled to jump at 1:10pm. Why does that matter? Because if it came through as a winner, and it sure looked like it would, then you might very well be able to "call it a day" after less than an hour on TriLogics. As you might hear on Melbourne's Lygon Street "At's a Nice!" What made MR02 look so good? Well, the 1.5 Win Dividend was pretty good looking to begin with. Combine that with a Money Gap of 4.93 and you would be easily excused if you'd started belting out the hit single "Mamma Mia!" OK, so we're off to a great start, but we still need to cover the rest of our selections and then see if we're going to keep torturing the neighbors with an off-key version of Abba's "Golden-Oldie". Following the recommended procedure, we cover down to 82.6% of the money for second place, making sure we include all runners attracting similar cash. To finish things off, we recommend completing your selections down to 97.6% of the money while again including all runners with similar money. Do we have too many combinations? Drum roll, please. TriLogics says no, and that's our final answer. The 21 combinations are well below our maximum for a Banker. Are you still feeling a little nervous? OK, then it's time to double check your potential Banker with the "PR insurance policy". To do this, simply flick over to the PR module to get a quick summary of what's been happening with the flow of money over the last 5 updates. When you check MR02 you'll see that the Money Separator is a massive 8.61. Yeah, baby! MR02 is looking more and more gorgeous all the time. And, because it's always fun looking at big, beautiful "numbers" we look further. Hmmm, what do we see here? The favourite looks every bit as good as it did in the Trifecta module - maybe even better. Over the last 5 updates runner #3 has attracted about $55,000. Oh, baby! And the next closest runner? Just $6,400 over the last 5 updates. Are we about to make some money, baby? What do you think? Is this a good opportunity to go back to the Trifecta module and make your trade? Of course it is! If you had traded the way it's posted on our website you could have had a profit of $588 in about 40 minutes using the software. And it's not even 1:15pm, yet. Now, if you're still nervous you may want to talk to your doctor about a Valium. Just kidding! Trust your training. Trust the software. Be confident!http://www.trilogics.com.au/successful-clients.htmlWed, 28 Sep 2011 16:45:26 +1000 Like Mikey the mobster in the Martin Scorcese movie says, "How many times I gotta tell ya." At the risk of repeating ourselves TriLogics wants to remind you to trade to a daily target and stop. Why are we bringing this up again? Simple: For the first 3 days of September if you had traded TriLogics to a daily target of $500 you would have been "won and done" within the first hour of trading. Let's look at the trading for each day - capiche? "It's a Beautiful Thing": Thursday the 1st of September Jumping at 12:55, race SR01 was the third race of the day. It was the first qualifying TriLogics Trifecta race, and it qualified under Megafecta guidelines. Runner #10 had a massive Money Gap of over 4.0, which made it a perfect candidate to stand out on its own for first. If you'd followed the rest of the guidelines you would have covered 92% of the money including second and third place. If trading according to our website guidelines the result could have been a nearly $600 profit for the day and you should have been done in an hour...that's the beauty part. "Leave the Gun, Take the Cannolis": Friday the 2nd of September The first race of the day was MR01 at Geelong that jumped at 12:37. As in the day before, this race also featured another stand out favourite showing a Money Gap of 3.6. Continuing with our guidelines, you should have taken 95% of the money for second place and the rest of the field for third place. If you had followed these guidelines you would have been up a cool $915 for the race, and done for the day. That's even better than home-made cannolis. "A Race You Can't Refuse": Saturday the 3rd of September On this day it would have taken you a little longer to make your money...but not much. Race PR01 at Hawkesbury in provincial NSW jumped at 12:40. It qualified as a Megafecta and runner #11 was a stand out favourite with a Money Gap of 3.5. If you had covered 91% for second and third place, as suggested by the guidelines you could have made $319. Since our website target is $500 we had not met it so we kept looking for another qualifying race. It didn't take long. MR01 at Flemington jumped at 12:45 qualifying as a Standard Trifecta with 70% for first and second place, and the rest of the field for third place. It wasn't a huge win, but the $186 you could have won would have put you over $500 for the day, and once again you're done...in a good way! Better than Linguini with Clam Sauce On Friday and Saturday no races qualified under Percentage Return (PR) guidelines prior to our Trifecta races, but there was one that snuck in there early on Thursday the 1st of September. It was race MR02 and it jumped at 12:45 (just ahead of our winning Trifecta). This PR race had two favourites with very strong Money Separators and it could have provided you with a nice $124 to start your day. Add that to the $599 won 10 minutes later and you've got a gorgeous Thursday and an even more gorgeous $2143 for the 3 days. So, maybe you're tired of hearing us suggest you stick to a daily target and quit...but you're probably not tired of starting your September off with over $2100 in the first 3 days! As the New York wise guys say in the movies, Badda Bing, Badda Boom...Fuhgeddaboutit - you're done. http://www.trilogics.com.au/successful-clients.htmlWed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +1000 In case you hadn't caught the musical reference in today's title, the "me" refers to TriLogics Trifecta module. And Trifecta just gave clients the opportunity to have a great 5-day period of trading. Hopefully you were leaning on Trifecta, yourself. A couple of weeks ago we talked about how well the TriLogics Percentage Return (PR) module was performing. Now, toward the end of this month, it's been the Trifecta module that's been strong. From the 25th of August through the 29th we've had 4 solid Trifecta days. On one of those days, the first qualifying Trifecta came through with a strong start. On another day, you had to have a little faith and patience, but the TriLogics Trifecta module came through in the end. Then, on the 27th, three out of the first four Trifectas could have delivered a great outcome if you were trading according to our guidelines. Let's take a closer look. Last Thursday the 25th of August could have been a very good Trifecta day if you had traded SR01 according to guidelines on our website. That was the first qualifying Trifecta race of the day, jumping at 12:45, and it was perfect for using our Standard Trifecta strategy. Our data sheets show clients could have had a positive outcome of $432 for that race. Plus, since the first race of the day jumped at 12:00pm you only had to be on TriLogics for about 45 minutes to see a great outcome. Leaning on Trifecta is beginning to feel nice and solid, isn't it? The very next day, on the 26th, there was another Trifecta race that would have been nice and solid if not spectacular. It was BR05, and it didn't jump until 3:25pm so you had to be a bit patient in this case. But if you were trading according to our guidelines your patience could have been rewarded with another positive outcome on another Standard Trifecta. In this case there were 36 trifectas selected, and you could have pocketed $213 on the race. It would be understandable if leaning on Trifecta was starting to feel pretty comfortable. Then, on Saturday the 27th, three out of the first four Trifectas could have been winners for you if you were following our guidelines. CR02 at 12:24 qualified as a Banker Trifecta and could have provided you with a tidy $425. 11 minutes later MR01 also qualified as a Banker and jumped at 12:35. Unfortunately you would have experienced a loss of $400 on that one, but hopefully you didn't give up on Trifecta just yet. 25 minutes later, AR01 looked pretty good as yet another Banker in the lead up to its 1:00pm jump. Sure enough, it could have showed a positive outcome of $425, and you could have found yourself $50 ahead of where you started. And Trifecta was just warming up. At 1:35 AR02 qualified as a Standard Trifecta under the basic guidelines of 50%, 70%, and 90% to red Money Gaps and you could have made $512. Not bad for under 2 hours of "work" on a Saturday. If you had stuck around for trading on Monday the 29th you would have seen the Trifecta trend continue on race MR04. It qualified as a Banker with just 30 trifectas, and could have provided you with $858 on that race alone. So there you have the story of Trifecta carrying the load for a 5-day period. As we saw, there was a bump along the way, but in trading - as in life - that's the way it goes. As the song says: the important thing is to have a friend to lean on when things are a bit down. This past week it was the Trifecta module carrying the load. Next week it might be PR again. Practice using all the modules and strategies so the right "friend" will be there for you when you need it.http://www.trilogics.com.au/successful-clients.htmlWed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +1000 Last Saturday, the 13th of August, we read a couple of messages from TriLogics owners who talked about how well they had done. Both mentioned profits in the area of $800. What we'd like to focus on is the how well things went when trading Percentage Return (PR) with and against the favourite. After all, one of the main reasons we have multiple strategies is that sometimes one strategy or module runs "hotter" than the others. Well, last Saturday it was TriLogics PR that might have had you singing the Carole King / James Taylor's oldie, "You've Got a Friend". Let's take a look at how TriLogics PR could have really helped your trading last Saturday. The first race of the day that qualified as a PR race, trading with the favourite, was AR01 that jumped at 12:40pm. In this race you would have been wise to stand out the top two favourites, runners #2 and #1. They were clearly the strongest runners in the race based on market support, and combined they held over 50% of market money. Runner #2 held 32% and runner #1 held 21%. If you had traded according to the guidelines as posted on our website you could have seen a nice start to your day with a figure of $124. Just 20 minutes later, BR02 was another race that qualified as a PR race trading with the favourite. As in AR01, you would have wanted to select the top two runners in this race, runners #3 and #2. Not only were they each holding a solid percentage of market money, 34% for runner #3 and 20% for runner #2, but there was a massive Money Separator of 3.3. That should have given you plenty of confidence to take these two runners and if you were trading according to our web guidelines you would have seen a positive figure of $93. You had to switch gears slightly for the next qualifying race, LR04, which was scheduled to jump at 1:55. In this case you still would have wanted to focus on the PR module, but this time going against the favourite. In this case you would have wanted to trade to the runners that the software selected because they finished on a clear red Money Separator. If you had traded this race you could have made $172. A few minutes later you would have wanted to stick with PR, and continue to stick with trading against the favourite for race MR04. In this case the favourite was very weak and so you would have wanted to select the #4, #1, #3, and #2 runners against it. It wouldn't have provided a huge positive figure, $58, but combined with the other races for the day you could have been looking at a very tidy profit by 2:00pm - all through Percentage Return trading. This is good news since we've heard that many TriLogics owners are especially comfortable trading with the PR module because changing the value is a simple process based on the strength of the race. When in doubt, have a close look at Percentage Return: there's a good chance it will be your financial friend right when you need one.http://www.trilogics.com.au/successful-clients.htmlWed, 17 Aug 2011 12:24:21 +1000