On February 13, 2009, I wrote an essay called, "Another Day at the Races." I had developed a technique of buying or shorting fast moving stocks in fast moving strategies, so I detailed how I tracked the performance of nine strategies, five bullish and four bearish, from the market's Open at 9:30 AM to its Close at 4:00 PM. In my mind, it was like going to a racetrack and watching the horses run. It was great fun and often quite profitable, so we created the VectorVest RealTime Derby.

The VectorVest RealTime Derby tracks and displays the performance of over 175 VectorVest Strategies from the time the market opens to the time it closes. With this tool, I could easily see which strategies or stocks I wanted to trade on any given day. Not only that, but I could see internal market action like never before. Take today, for example: I could easily see that the opening rally of the major indexes wasn't going to last because the Derby showed Bearish strategies out-performing Bullish strategies. Sure enough, the major indexes turned lower shortly after 10:00 AM.

With the Derby providing a tremendous amount of valuable data each day, we now needed a way of storing and analyzing it. So our developers created the Tote Board. We are very proud to announce that the Tote Board is being released today to all VectorVest RealTime Derby Users at no extra charge.

Like the Tote Board at your favorite track, the VectorVest RealTime Tote Board stores the daily Derby results and provides useful statistical information on performance. Over a time period of your choice, it shows the total gain or loss of every strategy, the percentages of the winning days and trades, and the maximum draw down. This information makes it extremely easy, of course, to see which strategies have been the best or worst performers over the time period you selected.

As I look at the Tote Board right now, 2:32 PM, the best performing strategy over the last five days is Odd Fellows Short with a gain of 8.57%. It's made money in four of the last five days, which is tops for any strategy, and it's had 68% winning trades, which is second best. It also was listed as a Top-Five Performer in Tuesday's Color Guard, and it's already up 4.1% today. Should I go short with this strategy? I just might do that. Thanks guys for The Derby and The Tote Board.

PROTECTING PROFITS.
The Price of the VectorVest Composite has gone up 61.4% from the March 9th low to yesterday's close. If you have been fortunate enough to participate in this rally, you should realize it's not going to last forever. Even if you may not wish to sell any stocks right now, you should learn how to protect profits. Mr. Steve Chappell, our Director of Educational Services, will share his knowledge and experience in how to perform this delicate task. So join Mr. Chappell at the VectorVest University to see this week's "Strategy of the Week" presentation: "Protecting Profits."