Profit with Zignals for free - Create and sell your own trading strategies

Why should I create a strategy on Zignals?

Let's be clear, by creating a strategy with Zignals you are essentially creating a sellable product. This product, which is a strategy that generates email trade signals for your subscribers, when sold, can generate new streams of revenue and income.

Create Managed Strategy - A realtime strategy. Your ongoing virtual trades in Zignals are used to generate realtime trade signals for your subscribers.

Create Rule-Based Strategy - An automatic strategy. Define the rules for your strategy and publish it once. The strategy is on 'autopilot' then and will generate trade signals into the future when your entry/exit criteria for a trade are met.

Apart from having a polished, professional, and reliable new product to sell, there are several other reasons for creating a strategy with Zignals:

• It costs nothing to build and sell rule-based strategies
• Strategies can be set up and published in minutes
• Potential subscribers can find your strategy using the Zignals marketplace
• There is a very transparent 50/50 revenue share structure in place
• You don't need programming experience to use our strategy builder
• Zignals manages everything for you including the delivery of strategy trade signals
• There is no limit to the amount of money you can make from subscriptions
• You receive the trade signals also! So that you can trade your strategy
• Subscription money goes directly to your paypal account
• Use our extensive range of expert investor tools

Sounds far too easy. I'm quite skeptical and generally pessimistic about fantastical promises made on the internet...

A very welcome observation!

Zignals is not a 'get rick quick' site. Quite the opposite. It's a site that offers you the opportunity to sell your own strategies to as many people you want at the price you want. Zignals offers you every tool necessary to create and sell expert trading strategies. We offer you a genuine and feasible way to increase your monthly income.

However, we cannot guarantee sales - that's your job! It's no secret that goods and services need to be promoted to attract buyers and drive sales. Strategies are no different. Luckily for you, it won't be hard. Think of the extensive networks of friends, family, and colleagues that you have built up over the years. If you have a website, you have a strategy selling platform. If you have a blog, you have a strategy showroom. If you have a few hundred followers and friends on social media sites (and the ability to type), you have a plethora of potential subscribers at easy reach.

In essence, your Zignals strategy can encapsulate your trading talent, knowledge, and industry experience in a single sellable product. A product that enables your subscribers to mirror your strategys' performance.

Leverage your connections to maximise your sales. You could create a great strategy for $5 and offer it to friends and family, or you could create a strategy for $100 and sell it to your existing clients/investors. You can package strategies in any number of ways to achieve your sales targets. Keep in mind that the strategy you are selling, if it's a good strategy, has real value to those who buy it and act on its signals.

How do I promote my strategy?

Websites and blogs are excellent places to start. Your goal is to make your strategy as visible as possible - especially if your strategy returns are great! Websites allow you to create your own promotional material so you should take advantage of that flexibility. Maybe create a strategy section on your site, describe your strategies, outline what investors they will suit, and ultimately offer links to subscribe to the strategy.

Get Social!
You've probably got hundreds of friends and followers on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Buzz, MySpace and Linkedin. These are fantastic channels to use when promoting your strategies. From your the strategies on your Zignals homepage, you can click the Tweet or Like button to begin showcasing your strategies.

 

How do I differentiate my strategies?
Think - how are you going to reach people who need a great strategy to invest in? Get imaginative! Why not set up a dedicated Facebook page for your strategies? Why not create a video to explain and promote your strategies? Free resources such as the below offer ample options to showcase your strategy and reach a market of potential subscribers:

Example of a dedicated facebook page:

Find your USP
Ask yourself, 'why should someone choose your strategy when there are hundreds on Zignals'.
Have you got special expertise in a particular industry?
Have you managed money professionally?
Have you had previous successes with a personal portfolio?
Are you offering amazing value?
Have you years of experience?

These are just some of the questions you can ask yourself to determine what makes your strategy different and valuable to others. It's then up to you to let everyone know about it!

You can do it! A little effort could pay significant dividends. As there is zero financial risk and you probably don't manage a billion dollar portfolio - it makes sense to see if you have the skill and drive to create a successful strategy selling business.

Zignals will gladly be your new business partner.
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News, Tweets, and Charts - all in one tool at Zignals

NewsStreams brings News, Tweets and Charts under one roof!

• Connect to Twitter
• ChartStream
• Multiple Stocks per Channel
• Real-time pricing
• Custom Channel View
• Help Video

Updated features

• New Data Management in Portfolio
• Quick Start and Full Tutorial Videos
• Report Bad Data

Twitter Support

Track the latest tweets of your favourite stocks or currency pairs, or find your next trading idea from the financial community at large. NewsStreams brings the best of Twitter, blogs (RSS) and financial news together as one. Bagged a big winner? Share your opinions and a chart of your trade - perhaps annotated with its progress - and tweet it without ever having to leave NewsStreams; a simple one-time login keeps your Twitter account active in NewsStreams. Have a Strategy you would like to promote? Share your home page link and performance summary to attract previewers and eventual subscribers.

ChartStream

Take advantage of the 3,500+ charts available on Zignals; simply click the chart icon at the head of each communication channel to open a mini-chart channel for the stock or currency pair. Click the mini-chart to get a full screen view with live data. Like the chart? Give it a vote and share your ranking with the chart author.

Multiple Stocks in One Channel

Use customisable Zignals Stocklists to create channels featuring multiple stocks. Create your own specialist list of stocks and get the latest market opinion on them; what's hot and what's not...

Real-time Pricing

With real-time pricing at the head of each stock channel you can view market reaction to price changes as it happens - never have to find the cause of a price move, let NewsStreams bring this information to you.

Custom Channel View

Drag-and-drop channels to your required view. By bringing a channel into the grouping highlighted by the blue border it will become visible on your screen.

Help Video

Learn how to post a chart, promote a strategy, or add an RSS feed to your NewsStreams account with the full length video tutorial or see how Twitter works with NewsStreams in the Quick Start video.

Enhanced Portfolio Management

Portfolio offers some new data management capabilities. You can view specific data within a column, or can group categories together to build subsets of data.

For example, you can group all strategy signals by stock, or view grouped buy and sell trades. Check the Grouping box and drag-and-drop sort categories. Break your trading down by as many parameters as there are choices in Portfolio!

Quick Start and Full Tutorial Videos

All applications now offer Quick Start (less than 5-minute videos) and full length Tutorial videos. Get help on Searching for a Strategy, Building a Managed Strategy, Building an automated StrategyStudio Strategy, MarketPortal, Alerts, Charts, Screener, Portfolio, Watchlist, NewsStreams, TradeTimer and PatternDNA. New meta FAQs are also available for Finding-a-Strategy and Premium tools.

Report Bad Data

Help keep gremlins out of our data! Our Report Bad Data allows you to highlight a trouble spot on the charts and send it to us for fixing. Just click-and-go.

If you have ideas and suggestions as to what you would like to see us do next, drop us a line at declan@zignals.com or adam@zignals.com

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New Zignals features. Ask and ye shall receive!

Here's how the process works! You ask for it... we develop it and make it available to you for free. In this post, we will show you just a few of the things we have done over the last month to enhance your Zignals experience!

Get Social

NewsStreams Tweets

NewsStreams Feeds

Charts

New Fibonacci Flavours

OHLC and Kagi Charts

Right-side Chart Space

Side Volume Bars

Darvas Boxes

Strategy Development

Manage Your Strategies in Charts

Strategy Trades in Charts

Get Social

Newsstream Tweets
You can now tweet annotated charts from our Newsstream tool. Do you have followers on Twitter? Do you publish stock picks? Can you create impressive charts? You can promote your work and strategies in seconds. Create charts, annotate them, attach your opinions and tweet them in realtime. The feature even includes an inbuilt URL shortener. Check it out.

NewsStreams Feeds
You can add RSS blog or news feeds using the Add Stream function. This allows you to track news and Tweets side-by-side. If you don't know where to start you can find some good blogs HERE. You can watch a video showing how a trade signal can be sent to your Twitter followers via Newsstreams here

                    

Charts

Fibonacci in Charts
You asked for it through feedback and here it is. The Fibonacci Retracements is the most recent feature addition to the charts. Not only have we added Fibonacci Retracements, but Fibonacci Time projections and Fibonacci Fan lines are available too. But there's more, we have even thrown in Gann Fan lines for good measure too! All of these changes are available in the Draw menu of Charts. You can read more about using Fibonacci in this blog post.

New Chart Types
Two new chart types make an appearance in our charts. The traditional OHLC bar is now available from chart Options. Also available are Kagi charts. For those unfamiliar with Kagi charts; green lines form when price breaks a previous high; red lines form when price falls below the previous low.

Right Side Chart Space

Many of you have requested the ability to extend chart space to the right. You can now do so by dragging the yellow arrow available in the date bar as far left as you like (creating blank space to the right of the arrow). You can use this space to extend drawn trendlines or add notes.

Side Volume Bars

Finding supply zones in your chart is made easier with Side Volume Bars. With Side Volume Bars it is easy to see which price zones have experienced the heaviest trading, an indication of potential demand or supply going forward.

Darvas Boxes

Darvas boxes are created when a stock trades within a sideways consolidation for at least three weeks. Signals are created when prices move outside of the range. During strong trending markets a series of Darvas Boxes can develop. Each new Darvas box added adjusts the exit price of a position. In the case of a long position, a 'sell' trigger is generated when price breaks the low of the highest Darvas box.

Strategy Development

Managed Strategies Now Available in Charts

Start your managed fund in Zignals with Chart support for Managed Strategies. Create trading signals for any stock or currency from Charts; select your chosen strategy, set a target and stop, then buy or short it. Signals created outside of normal market hours will trigger on the next open.

All signals targets and stops you create in Charts can be managed from Portfolio. So if you need to make a change to a position it's easily available in the drop-down menu of your strategy.

View Historic Strategy Signals

For any given stock you can view the historic transactions generated by the nearly 400 strategies available for subscription in the Zignals MarketPlace. Click on any one of the globe icons (which mark entry positions) and see how each of those trades performed with the capability of Previewing for free any strategy returned.

Please let us know if you these new features with a Like on Facebook!

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Zignals - Your Home for Managed Strategies

Welcome! That may have been the most profitable click you make in 2011.

Here you will be guided through the key steps of setting up your strategy trading business on Zignals.

If you have not traded before, Zignals offers an easy-to-use platform to simulate the real trading experience. With Zignals you have time to earn your trading wings while potentially earning money too. If you are already a successful trader, this is a logical way to supplement your ROI and increase your margins. You have taken the first step towards generating revenue on Zignals! Let’s get started.

Zignals, The Marketplace For Strategies
Ebay has done it for consumer goods industry and Zignals has done it for the investment industry. We have created a revolutionary strategy market where users can create and sell their trading strategies. We attract the best traders from a variety of markets including stocks, commodities, forex, and ETFs. We then enable traders, through use of groundbreaking free investment tools, to build and sell strategies in the Marketplace!

Where you come in...
You may be an expert in one particular trading area, you may may be an experienced all rounder, or you may be just starting off on your investment journey. Regardless of experience or expertise, Zignals allows every level of investor to profit from their own experience, insight, and skills. We give you the free expert tools, provide the means to sell, and then you sell. Your strategy’s success is monitored and the ROI is visible to the other members, who are your potential buyers. Your strategy’s ROI is your unique selling point. Perform well, and your strategy’s ROI can drive sales.

Your success depends on your strategy’s success. Your confidence in your own abilities can be reflected in the subscription price you set for access to your strategy. In our competitive marketplace of 35,000 members it becomes a question of balancing cost to performance.



Market yourself  and your strategy for extra exposure and income!
Zignals has a strong user base and runs several high profile advertising and marketing campaigns each year. Our membership base is a healthy source of potential subscribers and we are adding over a hundred new members every day. Strategy Publishers who actively promote their strategies through Facebook, Twitter, personal websites, blogs, and forums will significantly increase their chances of earning more money in strategy sales. 

Preview Strategies
No other site offers a free Preview service where potential subscribers can track a strategy by receiving delayed signals. Upgrading is simple and can be done at anytime during the Preview process, allowing potential subscribers build confidence in your system until ready to become full subscribers. The preview mode allows buyers to see the below information about your strategy.

Creating a strategy with Zignals is completely risk free
It’s important to note at this stage that there is zero financial risk to strategy sellers on Zignals. Strategies can be created for free and creators are welcome to use our extensive set of free investor tools for guidance and support. However, our Premium strategy services can give you an additional edge in the MarketPlace, introducing Patent Pending technologies to help you find the best opportunities in the Market.

Your Zignals membership gives you free access to an amazing range of expert decision financial tools. You also, become a part of an expert knowledge-sharing trader community. Learn how to manage a portfolio using a realtime stock and forex portfolio simulator

Learn about fundamental and technical analysis by reading our expert blog

Financial remuneration throughout the process is a uniquely beneficial reward for sharing your newfound skills and trading knowledge. Zignals can continue to grow as a company as long as we have the best talent on our site, so it is our priority to offer the most facilitating and efficient learning environment to our members. This comes across in our innovative approach to the entire site.

Set up a free profile!
Registering is free, quick, and easy. If you have trouble registering you can watch a short help video here. Remember, choose a username that you would like to use to sell your strategies. This is the name you will be using to attract buyers!



Get acquainted with Zignals investor tools
We have a large range of free expert tools on Zignals. Some of which you will use when developing your strategies, some of which you will not. To get your bearings and to find out how the tools work - begin exploring. Here are some brief introductory videos for the different tools you can begin using to develop your managed strategy

- How to use your home page
- How to set up a watchlist for stocks, commodities, and forex pairs
- How to open and view stock charts
- How to optimise your search settings (important)
- How to set up and manage stock price alerts
- How to use the fundamental stock screener (now with technical indicators!)

There are 3 paths you can take to build a strategy to sell:

Path 1 Managed Strategies

Create a Public Portfolio

The sand-box approach is our free strategy builder. Using our Portfolio application you can trade any stock or currency pair at any time of the day, set pre-market or conditional orders, maintain fixed targets and stops or trade freeform. With Zignals Managed Strategies the only limitation is your own skill. The signals from generated from your trading on the public portfolio generates trade signals. These signals are what buyers of your strategy will be paying for. Click here for more information.

The steps are simple

Path 2 - StrategyStudio

Rule-based strategy builder

A simple drag-and-drop interface allows for the rapid development of complex, multi-path strategies. Signals can be created using technical rules governing trend, momentum and volume, candlestick patterns, or unique customized Patterns built by out Patent Pending PatternDNA application. Exits are governed by volatility based rules and new trade entries are created after the market closes. StrategyGenius belongs to our Premium package and access to it, PatternDNA and Trade Timer comes all inclusive at $9.95 a month. Click here for more information.

Path 3 External Signals

Excel macros

The final option is geared more towards traders who trade using Metatrader or employ Excel Macros to generate trade signals. Our External Signals Platform offers support for both Metatrader and Excel and can be fined tuned using manual trade signals too.

To get the very latest in strategy activity plus the chance to have your own strategy featured and promoted for free - just click below and follow the newly created Zignals Trading Strategies Marketplace on Facebook.

The Zignals MarketPlace for trading strategies is a revolutionary new tool and we want you to be a part of its growth, development, and success from the start. Good luck trading

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The Trend Line - technical analysis basics on Zignals

Technical analysis - The trend line

The trend line, which can also be referred to as the ‘Dutch line’, is a commonly used chart tool that helps investors judge the timing of trades. They are commonly used to judge entry and exit investment timing when trading securities. Investors inferr these signals based on the line’s relationship with a security’s price movement over a period of time. Successful TAs  also use the trend line to identify when possible reversals might take place and also when a change in a trend might occur. The trend line can be interpreted in many ways which makes it a versatile tool to help create and develop personal strategies.

What timeframe should I use to create trend lines?

It is essential to draw trend lines using a price interval period that aligns with your trading strategy. For instance, a short term day trader may use trend lines with time intervals as short as 1 minute. Whereas longer term traders will use the trend line with time intervals based on daily, weekly, monthly or even yearly prices. While the trend line can be used with a host of other technical indicators, namely the MACD and RSI, for this post we will focus purely  on security prices.

Lets get started: Go to www.Zignals.com  and access the chart tool:

1 - Locate an uptrending security using research, trading ideas, or by looking in the public chart gallery.

2 - Draw a line accross the lowest points of the trend. Make sure the line does not cross through any of the prices.

3 - You need at least two prices excluding the starting price (so three points altogether) touching your line for it to be a valid trend line. See diagram below.

4 – From day one using the trend line, decide whether you will use the opening and closing prices or the high and low prices to draw your line. In our gold example above, we use the high/low prices of each candlestick.

How do I use the trend line to identify potentially profitable buy signals?

We can see that Gold gained huge support from the market right after the second point of our trend line. Investors who established a position in Gold at this point (the entry point having been identified by the trend line) were rewarded handsomely over the following months. The price of Gold incresed 11% in the space of 50 days.

How do I use the trend line to close a position?

Some investors sell out of a position when a trend line is broken. This is when the price crosses below the trend line. This however, like any other indicator, is never 100% reliable. See example below. The trend line was broken at the very end of October yet the trend itself did not break. Investors who liquidated their position when the line was broken subsequently missed out on the 5.6% price gain the following week.

  

 

After the trend line is broken, what do I do?

Draw another trend line! Often, when a trendline has been broken but the underlying trend continues on, it provides investors with an opportunity to trade within the resistance and support bands (which is the area between the first and second trend lines.

Notice that the first and second trend lines, in this instance, formed a trading channel. This means that the prices remain within the boundaries of our two lines for a certain amount of time. Our first trend line acts as a resistance marker and our second trend line acts as a support marker. Keep in mind that this channel band becomes weaker the more that prices touch off the two trend lines. When this kind of pattern is recognised, traders can go long when the security hits the support floor provided by the second band and short the security when it hits the resistance roof provided by the first band.

A few key points about trend lines:

What differentiates a weak trend line from a strong one is the amount of times prices touch
but do not cross the line. A weak trend line with have 2 touching prices over a long period of
time whereas a strong trend line will have many prices touching it. In our example above, the
first gold trend line is strong. In addition to the three prices marked with a green circle, there
are another three that could have been marked.

Two price points can help identify a trend line but three price points (the starting price plus two
additional prices) are needed to confirm that it is a valid trend line.

A break in a trend line does not necessarily mean that the security’s trend has broken.

To begin finding and drawng your own trendlines, go to Zignals and give it a try. Start drawing trend lines for free on Zignals. When you feel like putting your newfound TA skills to the test, why not create and publish a strategy with us? It's free and could potentially earn you money from other members's subscriptions. Build a trading strategy for free on Zignals.

 

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