Pulling the Curtain

I decided to pull the curtain on evil.rat tonight – a bunch of you leeches won’t even show up tomorrow as it’s last day of OPEX week (I don’t blame you). I thought it to be a great opportunity for you hardcore rats to jump in early ahead of Monday. This way I can perhaps run the data feed simulator over the weekend and make sure everyone gets the emails and SMS which are being sent out. I’ve been able to resolve various SMS delivery issues by using different gateway routes for the people affected. This is something best done ahead of live trading.

So without much ado – here it is in all its glory:

Is it me or does he does he look a bit like a CBOE market maker? Must be that congenial expression in his face. Meh – that’s at least how I imagine they look like when I don’t get decent fills.

So, before you guys jump the gun – a few pointers:

1. I strongly recommend that all evil.rat subscribers refrain from using the following webmail providers: Yahoo/Hotmail/AOL/Verizon/ATT/MSN. If you do use one of those then hop over to GMail and sign up for a free email account. GMail has the best spam filtering on the planet right now and thus far there have been no issues with folks receiving our alerts.
2. Please make sure you read the evil.rat page in its entirety – in particular I recommend you review the before-you-sign-up section. That will probably cut down on 90% of the emails I receive.
3. When you sign up you have an option to provide your SMS number. First up, make sure that you follow the input format as described in the form (i.e. no plus, no leading zeros, no spaces, your country code, etc.). Second – if you provide the SMS you will receive both email and SMS alerts. If you start seeing emails but no SMS arrives please let me know (admin at evilspeculator) and I’ll try to find a better route for your mobile provider.
4. I have kept the subscription format on a month-to-month basis for now – there is no auto-pay. Once your subscription has expired you’ll have to extend your subscription from your membership page. Nevertheless – I want to make it clear that trading a blackbox system takes a 3 month commitment minimum, which hopefully should not come to a big surprise to you. This is not a system which will make you tens of thousands with one contract in a matter of days. Look at the profit graph of the past year and you’ll get a good idea of what to expect.
5. You know the old mantra: Past performance is no indication of future success. I have tested the crap out of this thing and have great confidence that it will continue to perform but as you know – black swan events happen and when it comes to trading there are no guarantees.
6. There will be days when evil.rat does not get an entry trigger – please do not send me constant emails asking me why it’s not trading today. The system is the system and it’s possible to have a straight up or straight down day and there are not trades being taken. On average there is about one trade every two days on both evil.rat/NQ and evil.rat/ES.
7. Evil.rat subscribers will be eligible for a special partnership discounted futures rate at ThinkOrSwim. You will have to prove that you are an evil.rat subscriber, so after you sign up just email your username to support@thinkorswim.com to see if you qualify – starting rate is $2.75 per contract per side inclusive of exchange fees. I know there are a few brokers who are a few dimes cheaper but this is an aggressive rate and in my not so humble opinion TOS is the best retail broker around – period. Also, if you continue to trade I’m sure they can probably match what some of those discount brokers are offering – just a matter of seeing some activity in your account.
8. If you like what you see – you can sign up here.

Anyway, great if you made it this far – evil.rat is waiting for you 🙂

UPDATE 10:14am EDT: So, I rolled out of bed this morning and after my usual morning cleaning routine (I’m a sanitary but insane rat – yes sirree!) I proceeded to my workstation to start the day. Quite frankly, after last evening’s post I expected maybe five subscriptions overnight.

It’s no exaggeration to say that my jaw literally dropped when I saw pages of new subscriber alerts in my email box – and they keep trickling in! The only word that appropriately describes my sheer amazement comes from my native tongue:

UNGLAUBLICH!

Now, it literally translates as ‘incredible’ but the daily usage of this word is more along the likes of ‘wow’ or ‘awesome’. I’m deeply touched and equally scared as this is now for real and I can’t afford any slip ups. However, emotional roller coasters aside – I must thank you all for the level of trust and ardent support you are so generously offering me and my work and I promise that I will do my utmost to provide a world class service to every single one of you and improve the product wherever possible.

Thanks rats – you guys rule 🙂

Alright, enough of the pleasantries, I’m getting all choked up over here. As stated yesterday night – just watch the signal today and don’t trade it – even if we get alerts today I have a feeling they might just whipsaw us in/out. Please make sure that your SMS # has been entered the right way – if it still fails despite a correct entry it’s probably not your fault and I will forward all bounced numbers (which I see in my delivery report) to my gateway provider so that they can set up a special route for you.

I might run the data simulator over the weekend during the day – especially if we don’t get a real alert today. They will come in fairly short succession as I’m able to play God and drive the market up down via a lever (I’m not kidding – and I am actually working on implementing that for the real market – hehehe). Just make sure you get the alerts in sequence and get used to the format. Always make sure you look at the sequence number so that you execute the right order in the proper succession (next week). If there are problems I will alert you guys via email right away. I don’t expect any but 15 years in engineering taught me that some bugs only show up once you go real time. Murphy’s Law is not limited to trading – that’s for sure.

Happy trading – and thanks again for your support.

Cheers,

Mole

UPDATE 11:27am EDT: Someone just asked me where he can see the data feed for evil.rat. Just to make this clear – evil.rat is a black box trading system. There is nothing to watch – it’s not an indicator/oscillator like the Zero. All you will receive are email/SMS alerts indicating when evil.rat is executing a trade. Hope this makes sense and my apologies for not making this more clear.