TradingAdvisor has developed trading strategies based on technical analysis for the German nearest Cal Base contract. These are currently being traded in the market with great success. One of the advantages of trading in this technical systematical way is that technicians assume that all information, both public and inside information, is reflected in the prices. Therefore you will save a lot of effort gathering, analyzing and weighting the constant flow of market information.

Typically an unexpected event in the market will cause prices to jump. If the prices jump significantly, this movement will make a trading strategy giving a valid signal and enter a position. A trader may use time to analyze what caused the jump and during that time the market may have made a great move. In the case where this initial move leads to a sustained market move the trading strategy will ride this movement and make a profit. In other cases where the market comes against the position this will be closed out with a loss. Well designed strategies have positive mathematical expectations of returns and over time the winners will be greater than the losses.

TradingAdvisor's trading strategies for the German Power market consist of a short-term trend strategy and a short-term breakout strategy. The trend strategy takes position in the direction of the short-term trend and gives trading signals based on the market direction. The breakout strategy will take a position when the volatility increases significantly and will trade in the direction of the breakout. The correlation between these two strategies is low.