StockRaptor Philosophy

Raptors are the ultimate observers. They survey broad landscapes, but quickly focus on the subtlest movements of the smallest prey. Raptors are predators. Soaring high, their sharp vision and spectacular speed allow them to swoop down and capture their prey before it escapes. We all want to be raptors in our investing, soaring above the market with little effort, keenly watching for the best opportunities, and diving in to seize them. StockRaptor products are designed to give any investor the vision and speed of a raptor.

You know you have to save for retirement...

Social Security sure won't be enough, and who knows what your company pension will be like! If there even is one. But what are you going to do with your money? If you aren't satisfied with CD returns, if you believe real estate is too high and if you're afraid other types of investments are too risky, you're probably considering the stock market for the long haul. But what should you invest in? When should you buy? When should you sell? The analysts are all telling you buy, buy, buy, but should you? Who can you trust? Can you trust anybody?

Many individual investors have come to distrust the stock market, yet more and more people are investing than ever before. For most of us, there is still no other way to save effectively for retirement. The old advice to simply buy and hold is inadequate in today's fast moving, uncertain markets. You have to incorporate intellegent buy-and-sell strategies into your investment plans if you want to maximize your returns. The secret to doing this is found in Technical Analysis. If you find this a baffling art practiced only by Wall Street gurus, we can help. Our suite of products make the complex world of TA easy to understand and affordable, too.

StockRaptor flies above the swamp of confusion...

There is solid money to be made in any market, up or down, in the ongoing fluctuations of stock prices. But you have to be able to follow the prices for your chosen set of stocks, quickly and easily, or you will miss your buying and selling opportunities. If you're like most people, you're lucky if you have a few minutes each day to check the prices on the stocks that you follow and make a few quick decisions. But wouldn't it be great to minimize the time spent getting and organizing the price data, and to maximize the time spent analyzing the data and deciding what to do about it? Your time truly is money, because the better your decisions, the more money you'll keep in your account.

You get there with Technical Analysis...

To decide when to buy and sell stocks, market indexes, bonds or any other financial instrument, professional investors analyze patterns in price and volume fluctuations. There are hundreds of methods. They generally start with indicators that apply mathematical formulas to price and volume data over varying periods of time. Changes in their values generate what are called signals. The signals simply tell you whether to buy or sell a stock. When applied to historical data, you can study these signals and see whether trades based on them were winners or losers. You can dramatically improve the odds of making money on your trades by seeing how history more or less repeats itself.

So, how does StockRaptor make me money?

StockRaptor is a simple, ordered, modular system that provides all you need to perform Technical Analysis. It start with free end of day historical data with RaptorFeed. For most investing strategies, you won't need to pay for any subscription services, so you can build and maintain your Technical Analysis database at no cost. Next you use the comprehensive graphical utilities of ChartHawk or ChartEagle for charting stock price and volume data and posting the indicators that you want. With ChartHawk you can quickly see the performance of securities. With ChartEagle a basic toolbox of oscillators, relative strength and other indicators will bring your quarry into focus.

Soon with StockRaptor's screener, ScreeningEagle, you'll be able to bring a suite of over 120 technical indicators to bear. You'll also have the power to quickly sift through hundreds of potential trading opportunites to find the ones that are right for you. We'll also be releasing a portfolio manager, RaptorFolio, to assist you in tracking all your investments for tax and financial planning. It will provide easy to maintain detailed record keeping and will graphically chart your success, too.

StockRaptor organizes the complex world of Technical Analysis and makes it easy to use powerful tools without having to learn a lot of jargon or spend countless hours studying arcane professional books. Yet with our unique system, if you are already an analysis guru or want to become one, you won't find that StockRaptor limits you in any way. You just step up to our advanced modules and you can do anything you want in an easy scripting language. If you have even the most rudimentary programing skills, you will be able to to use our library or build your own from scratch. You will be able to use conventional models or create your own custom market analysis tools to analyze any number of listed securities. Our automated screener, simulator and optimizer will find trades and test strategies on a spectrum of issues and report back to you. There's no need to sit around repeatedly clicking and picking any more!