The Acorn Experience

Coaching Process

If you were getting your self into shape do you feel you would benefit more from a set of DVD's from home or an actual personal trainer in the gym? The answer is obvious. However many of us treat our finances with a totally different approach. Allow our trained professionals to take you by the hand and teach you the strategies that will allow you to take control of your portfolio and gain that feeling of confidence and control that many never find.

With thousands of stocks it is impossible to go through each of them manually each day. With our strategy you will learn how to scan the market in a matter of seconds and quickly identify the stock we are looking for. We have found that there are a set of criterias that when aligned create an ideal opportunity for a stock to make a quick and profitable of move of often 10% or more. We call this situation 'The Perfect Storm'.

We have often had our clients comment that the biggest difficulty they have had comes down to having the confidence of knowing when to consider selling or entering into a position. Often this can be due to a lack of strategy and disciplines. Working with your personal mentor we will show you methods that you can use to strip away this confusion. We will of course will be here with you on this journey every step of the way.

8 Step Strategy

In many courses and programs out there we have found students will be swamped with dozens of different options of different types of courses to take, modules to include, and packages to purchase.  When we asked our students what they were ultimately looking for the answer was usually the same “I want to know how to make more money”.  

With that in mind Acorn has stripped all of the ‘noise’ and sometimes confusing elements of the stock market away from our course. What you will learn is a concise 8 step strategy that will enable you to open your charting software after the market has closed and go through a definitive decision making process which will alert you to profitable stocks and help you pick your entry and exit points with confidence.  

The way we were able to uncover such a strategy is that we found, after testing 100’s of different profitable stocks, that there were certain which many of them shared in common before making their move. We now the ‘personality’ of the stock’s that we are looking for. The next step was to design a scan that would find them on a daily basis for us, thus narrowing tens of thousands of stocks down to a short list of typically 5-10. We then applied a series of further tests to this short list to narrow it down the possible one we would then buy. By putting the stock through so many different check points or tests we found that the few stocks which actually passed them all had a very high rate of accuracy coupled with aggressive returns.  

 

A Recipe for stock market success

Many of our clients have likened this 8 step process to much like following a recipe. Because as with any venture, you must have a recipe and a plan to what you are doing. Otherwise if you don’t know where you are going, then any road will take you there!

In our course you will learn how to use our unique 8 step approach to:

1. Scan the market daily and pin point a short list of candidates worth considering
2. Identify and understand the different types of personalities of stocks you will encounter
3. Develop your understanding of the basis of technical>analysis and how to apply our 8 carefully selected criteria to your trading strategy.
4. Put the candidates(or any other stock you choose) through our tests and make confident calculated decisions.
5. Quickly disregard stocks that do not meet the criteria you are looking for
6. Effectively evaluate which stocks will provide you the greatest potential return with the least amount of foreseeable risk.
7. Manage your trades so that the odds are always in your favor.
8. Plan your exit strategy before entering your trade

No matter what their level of experience we constantly meet investors who may spend upwards of 15-20 years in the market without ever developing a strategy that consistently works for them. Rather than spend the time and money having the market teach you the lessons, we hope you will take the time to educate yourself ,with our assistance, and get your money working effectively.

Trading Mistakes

Some of the Mistakes We Teach you NOT to make  

Trend is your friend – Have you ever tried to walk the wrong way up a moving sidewalk? Hard work isn’t it! However we see investors everyday doing the same thing by fighting the trend of the market. Successful trading is about putting as many different factors as possible in your favor to increase the chances of the trade going your way. Therefore if the market is trending downwards try to avoid holding onto positions you may be able to buy back cheaper in a few weeks and perhaps instead look for some shorting opportunities.  

Fail to Limit Losses – No-one gets it right 100%. This means we will be wrong from time to time. However we have found the best trades we have done are the ones that have moved straight away. If the stock moves against you, you must have a pre-planned exit strategy which will get out!

Buying in to Emotion - it is tempting to buy a stock that is shooting up. However we have always believed that the first 10% is always much easier to make than the last 10%. This means that the further a stock goes up the higher the risk of it reversing on you. Think about it in terms of stretching out a rubber band for instance. Rather than chase a stock like this wait for another one to come around which is at the beginning of its run!  

Believing in Public Information – If the information is public, it generally is worthless as it has already been factored into the stock price. Effective trading is about getting an edge on everyone else, weather we do this through superior charting, timing or the way we find the stock. However the news will generally not provide this for us.  

Taking Too Much Risk - just like any business you must have a strategy that you know will produce more money out than what you put in. We must treat our stocks the same. If we are too get into a stock to make a potential 10% return then it would obviously be unwise to risk 15% in order to make it. To execute and develop such a strategy you need to be able to forecast potential returns and calculate the appropriate level of risk to take on.