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Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about the Software
What is CyberTD?
What do I need to run CyberTD?
Do I need a broker account to use CyberTD?
What is a real time stock model?
What is model training?
How often should I re-train models?

Questions about Trading Strategies
What is a trading strategy?
How to reduce the number of trades?
How to avoid losing trades?
What stocks are good for real time Swing trading?
What is model training?
How often should I re-train models?

Questions about Data
Do I need to pay for real time data feed?
How to backup my models and data?
How to transfer model data from one computer to another?

Q.  What is CyberTD?
A.   CyberTD is the first intelligent real time strategy trading system available to the public. It combines quantitative analysis with Artificial Intelligence to analyze real time trading patterns, and identify buy/sell opportunities in real time. It helps traders gain significant edges, stay ahead of the curve and achieve great success.

In summary, CyberTD provides the following functionality:

(1) Real Time Analysis
It provides real time analysis, real time technical indicators, real time charts and streaming data.

(2) Streaming Signal
Add your stocks or ETFs to Real Time Watch List, the system will provide real time buy, buy-to-cover, sell, sell-short signals during market hours.

(3) Real Time Prediction
The Neural Network system re-calculates all models every 6 seconds to predict the most-possible direction in the next 5 minutes for individual stocks, based on the stock's intraday trading patterns, real time technical indicators and market information.

(4) Strategy Testing Platform
You can test various trading strategies against historical intraday data or real time data. The test is 100 percent objective. It is a powerful tool to help traders find profitable trading strategies and stocks.

(5) Automated Trading Platform
The system is seamlessly integrated with TD Ameritrade backend servers, provides every thing you need to make your real time trading easy, quick and successful. The trade can be placed automatically or manually.

CyberTD is a very sophisticated system, but easy to use. For most people, it takes less than 15 minutes to understand and run it.

Q.  What do I need to run CyberTD?
A.   To run CyberTD, you need the following:
(1) Subscribe CyberTD service by clicking the Order link. After your subscription is processed, you download and install CyberTD software to your computer.

(2) A Computer with 1GHZ or higher speed, running Windows 95, 2000, XP or later version

(3) A broadband internet connection, cable modem, local area network etc.

CyberTD is for US stocks, ETFs and indices. It can also be used to analyze and trade stock market indices of all major markets worldwide.
Q.  Do I need a broker account to use CyberTD?
A.  CyberTD 3.0 is a standalone program with its own data feed through the internet. No broker accounts are needed to run the software. However, if you want to make trades online or automate your trades, you need a broker account with TD Ameritrade or Charles Schwab etc.
Q.  What is a real time stock model?
A.  To mathematically analyze a stock, CyberTD creates a math model in database to represent the stock. The math model stores a neural network, the stock's intraday trading patterns, effective real time technical indicators and associate index etc. The model contains the most important factors by which the stock prices may be influenced. By such thorough and scientific analysis, better trading decisions can be made.

Q.  What is model training?
A.  Inside the program, a stock is represented by a mathematical form. Training is a process for the program to accumulate intraday trading patterns and other statistic information related to the stock.

Q.  How often should I re-train models?
A.  Once a month.

Q.  What is a Trading Strategy?
A.  A Trading Strategy is a set of Buy/Sell/Risk Control rules the program follows to buy,sell the stock. In real time, CyberTD calculates the model and checks the rules against streaming data 10 times per minute. When it meets the Buy rules, a buy signal is generated; when it meets the Sell rules, a sell signal is generated.

Q.  How to reduce the number of trades?
A.  (1) If you Trade Long Only or Trade Short Only, the number of trades will be reduced to half compared with Trade Both Sides.
(2) Reducing the Trading System Sensitivity (by increasing the sensitivity threshold value) will reduce the number of trades.
(3) If you set Risk Control Position rule to "Buy/Sell round-trip <= 1", the system will only buy and then sell once a day.

Q.  How to avoid losing trades?
A.  Set Risk Control stop-loss rule to "Not sell or cover if loss". If it is set, the system will not sell the long position if the current stock price is less than the purchase price or cover the short position if the current stock price is higher than the short price, even though it meets all other sell-rules or cover-rules. In other words, the system will hold the position and ignore the buy/sell rules until the trade has gains.

Q.  What stocks are good for real time Swing trading?
A.  Since CyberTD takes advantage of real time swing, stocks with high daily swing (day high _ day low) usually perform well. Low price stocks generally do not have high daily swing (by price, not by percentage), and therefore, offer little chance for the system to catch any meaningful move in real time. Users can see the performance while doing Strategy Testing.

Q.  What is model training?
A.  For every stock added to the Real Time Watch List, CyberTD creates a mathematical model to host the stock's intraday trading patterns, indicators and the correlation between technical indicators and price trends. Model training is a process for the model to accumulate its trading patterns and test the effectiveness of individual technical indicators.

Q.  How often should I re-train models?
A.  Once a month

Q.  Do I need to pay for real time data feed?
A.  No. Real time streaming data is free for licensed users.

Q.  How to backup my models and data?
A.  All data are contained in a database, Neuromodel08.mdb, located in C:\CyberTD\. Please copy this file to a different place for backup once in a while. To restore your old data, just copy over the database to C:\CyberTD\.

Q.  How to transfer model data from one computer to another?
A.  All data are contained in a database, Neuromodel08.mdb, located in C:\CyberTD\. When you copy this file from one computer to another, all data are transferred at once.


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