"Steve and Marge, I got two ideas from the seminar well worth more than the price of admission in trading ideas. It was a pleasure meeting each of you and placing a face with a name. I also learned a tremendous amount from other NeuroShell Day Trader Professional users who attended the seminar. I look forward to using the features you demonstrated over the three days (particularly for my screening of current signals)."       David B. Buffalo

"Frankly I'm bowled over by the program. I have been using it intensively and the more I use it the more I can see that I'm still only scratching the surface of its capabilities. I recall a post or tip somewhere on the site that described it as a traders 'strategy workbench'. That chimes well with my experience so far. The focus is exactly where it needs to be - ie on minute, comprehensive analysis aimed at profitable trading strategies as the output - without expert knowledge of one or more coding languages (I'm not a programmer, I'm a trader!)"       Peter Presland

"I wanted to write and tell you how excited I am to be using your technology! After learning your approach in Trader, I’m completely rethinking my development process. Trader is absolutely THE BEST platform for experimentation and hypothesis testing for Net Trading design. I’ve extensively worked with your competitors products, and I’ve also worked with a slew of addons for TradeStation to handle genetic optimization and neural nets."       Charley Lanusse (Editor's note: Charley Lanusse was the CEO of Starseed, the company that developed the WebRing technology)

"Thanks a million for your excellent service. I've been out of the markets for a while but looking forward to using your wonderful product again - I just downloaded the upgrade and it looks even better than before. Thanks again for the best analysis tool I ever used (and it's by far the most fun)."       David Stars

I have worked with artificial intelligence and trading software since graduating from college in 1987. Ward Systems is the best on the market. I use NeuroShell Trader and many of the add-ins to manage my hedge funds. I trade commodities markets in my CTA fund, "the Non-Linear Fund", and am launching a new fund to trade the NASDAQ 100 stocks. Confidence breeds success in the investment world, and the only software I trust to model and trade in real time is the NeuroShell Trader. Also, Steve Ward has gone above and beyond in helping me understand his products and their limitations for my style of trading.       Marc A. Spungin President Prairie Investment Management

Buying NeuroShell Trader Professional was a great decision for me. The program is very comprehensive and feature rich, the on-screen help is always relevent, and the telephone support is outstanding. I have found the users forum to be especially useful. This program literally inspires creativity in developing trading systems, asset allocation models, etc.       John Nichols

"I'm really impressed with what this product provides. It is precisely the kind of thing I've been looking for in terms of a "Trading System Development Workbench". I can already see that the kind of data management and net definition activities I spent hours and hours doing with another neural net product, NS Day Trader does with a few dialog boxes and mouse clicks. Incredible!"       Steve Buss

I think Adaptive Turboprop2 is fabulous. It's performing beautifully. I recommend it to all of my friends.       W. Thompson

I can't wait for the final version. The NeuroShell Trader works!"       Roy E. Dye Sr.

"Thank you very much for you prompt reply concerning my query. I am enjoying my pre-release version of NeuroShell Trader. I think you did a great job on the release of a totally new product. I have always received very good customer service from your company, which is why I like doing business with you."       Alan Tingle

"I am really excited about the final release of the "Trader". GeneHunter 2.0 is truly a masterpiece. Your products have made me wealthy and my nine year old boy David is having fun learning about AI too. The ease of use and presentations just draw him in; we experiment everyday. The presentation about how neural nets predict in the Easy Predictor is where it started for him. Thank you so much for the great tool set. I would recommend them to anyone."       John Skulavik

"It's great working with a company that is concerned about their customers and follows up like you do. We don't see that often. It means a great deal to us. Keep me posted of any additional upgrades or improvements (to the NeuroShell Trader). Thanks a lot."       Ed Smith

"I currently own the NeuroShell Trader package and I am very happy with it. I just wanted to congratulate you guys (and gals?) on a great job. Looks like 1998 will be a profitable year!"       Daniel Ervi

"I want to give you an example of an impressive success with NeuroShell Trader. The chart shows long/long exit signals for the Major Market Index given over the past week and a half. A buy signal is given at a reaction low, then a long exit at the high of that move. Next, a buy signal is given at the bottom of Monday’s 550-point drop, followed by another long exit signal on the date following a high for that rally. Pretty impressive, especially since I didn’t give much thought to the development of the neural net. … The program had never seen a 550-point move, so I thought it would do nothing. To my pleasant surprise, it knew what to do even in the midst of chaos."       Michael Kenny

"Your new program NeuroShell Trader is great. Looking at relationships in the markets is effortless now. I can see that this will be the one program that I will bring up every morning. The walk-forward nets make it extremely easy to see if the patterns that have been found in the past are still working in the present. Since I began using NeuroShell 2 I have felt confident that I am betting with the odds (for the first time), and NeuroShell Trader will make it unbelievably easy on a day-to-day basis."       Kermit Johnson

"Thanks for an excellent product."       Bob Tate

"Yesterday I found your letter with rel. 1.41 (on CD ROM) in my mailbox, just a few days after I ordered it. I was amazed! What e x c e l l e n t service, to deliver it in such a short time here to Germany! I immediately installed the new release and had a few looks at it. Great product with a lot of important improvements! In some earlier communication I already told you how satisfied I am with your product. It's only after extended use that I really started to appreciate the NeuroShell Trader's astonishing power. There is another positive fact that I would like to comment upon: that is the responsiveness and quality of your technical service. Whenever I had a problem up to now, I always got an answer that solved my problem and I received this answer in the shortest possible time, usually right on the next day. Taking the quality of your product and the quality of your service together, you surely are leader in your market segment."       Hans J. Wild

"I'm very happy with the NeuroShell Trader; I couldn't have designed it better myself. All of your addons are fantastic, and I love the technique of learning by the videos. I really can't say enough good things about the software."       Chris Laskaris

"The reason I say you're my favorite software company is that your software works as advertised, it does not crash, and tech support quickly e-mails responses when you don't quite get something! I don't need to talk to someone on the phone when you get good responses via e-mail! A LOT of software houses can learn lessons from your model!       T. Adam Kelley

"Do Adaptive Net Indicators work? YES! Are they fast? YES! But most importantly, would I recommend them and are they fun to work with? YES and YES! My goal is to cut whipsaw trades out of my strategies. Using these indicators it is possible to predict the next days value and base a decision on that prediction. By doing this, I have been able to remove unprofitable trades. One more great product by the folks at Ward Systems!"       Mark Behrendsen

"My compliments on a truly innovative product (NeuroShell Trader)! The step to finding profitable neural networks has been greatly simplified by your company. It still isn't "a pushover", but you have definitely paved one of the roads to success."       Richard Verhey

"The NeuroShell Trader is fantastic. I have been modeling the S&P 500 and a few stocks. The nets do seem to capture what's going on in the market and are very predictive. I've used other neural network software products, but the NeuroShell Trader is by far the best because it is geared specifically for Traders."       Whitney Reid

"I received the Trader a week or so ago and I am so impressed with its design, usability and bug free operation that I wanted to drop a note and complement the folks responsible, for an excellent product."       Henry Wolf

"I have developed what seems to be a good robust model that works well on weekly data with many different stocks. NS Trader is an excellent product and your support service really is second to none. I look forward to future enhancements. If you wish to use my name as a very satisfied customer who is using the product to make profitable models please feel free to do so."       Stephen Jeary

"Ward Systems Group is amazing, the review in Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities does not do the software justice. Not only is this one of the most powerful trading tools I have ever encountered (and I’ve tried most of them), it is also the easiest to use, not to mention the friendliest and most useful staff I’ve encountered. I use the software, with much success, to develop market timing tools for my bank, as well as institutional clients and will always use Ward Systems’ products. Buy the product, join the Ward Systems family, but don’t tell your friends about it."       Sebastian Fainbraun Research Analyst Republic National Bank of New York

" Ward Systems products rank at the top of my list for both ease of use and quality of result. The elegance of their implementation encourages the user to look deeper and experiment more, because those experiments are made so easy to perform. It’s the best stuff of its’ kind that I know of."       Morgan Garwood

"I am now using a chart with a network that produces a 195% annual return!"       Shashi Mehrotra

"Please give my compliments to all the people involved in designing NeuroShell Trader! It’s an excellent product, highly user friendly and a delight to apply. After installing the program I was already 'in business' (trained the first nets) after 15 minutes. Your tutorials are excellent, including its compatibility with other data directories. I’ve never seen a program so tailored to the needs of new, inexperienced users."       William Zabel

"I predict prices for commodities that are used in my company. Using the NeuroShell Trader, I am able to accomplish in 15 minutes what it previously took an entire day with an older style neural network package."       Marty Engquist

"I have had NeuroShell Trader for less than 2 days now, and was able to come up with what appears to be some good results…Thanks for a great product!"       Jerry Brunet

"I am sending this testimonial to you (unsolicited BTW), because I really feel that the NeuroShell Trader is a great buy in software. I have purchased a fair amount of software over the years that has been advertised heavily and sounds great, but sits on my computer unused now. I have been fortunate to have been a beta tester for the Trader, and I have been very impressed with how your company has responded to all suggestions I have made about how the Trader could be made better. And problems with the betas have been corrected very swiftly. The software has more capabilities than I will probably use, but it is easy to use even for this farmer from the Midwest who has not studied math for 35 years. I am not only using it for market analysis to give probabilities of trends in the commodity markets, but I am also using it to predict profits (or losses) in parts of my business. It has taken some of the subjectivity out of business decisions for me. Again, your Trader software is a bargain."       Kermit Johnson

"I take this opportunity to send warm wishes of a Merry Christmas to you all and to express an opinion well spread here in Europe: if there was a Nobel Prize for Trading Systems the two prizes so far would have been awarded to Trade Station (a few years ago) and this year to… NeuroShell Trader Professional!"       F. Mauricio Garcia

"Your product has lived up to all of my expectations and I'm very impressed."       Tim Altier

"Just a brief note to congratulate you and your team on a truly wonderful program. In the few days I have been viewing and using Trader Professional I can appreciate the amount of money, research, design, thought, and integration effort that has been directed and managed in producing such a program. There are very few companies, in my opinion, who can match the outcome of your efforts. It is a most professional product in every aspect. From a personal perspective, your program allows me to concentrate on areas that best utilise my expertise which is absolutely marvelous. I am sure you will be rewarded for all your hard effort."       Daniel P. Lyons

"There's a lot of junk out there, but what you guys have (NeuroShell Trader) is really worth the money."       Roland Lowe

I am writing you this note to say how much we value NeuroShell Trader Professional at our hedge fund. We are fundamental investors where we invest for value for the long term. Because of this we do as much research as we can before entering a postition. With NeuroShell Trader, we can use technical analysis as part of our research. NeuroShell Trader has given us a real leg up in our research. I don't know how we could be as effective without it.       Paul Mahler

First of all, I enjoy using your programs!!! Not only do they help with my trades, they are a lot of fun and an education in and of themselves.       Francisco Canseco

I am indeed satisfied beyond my expectations! ... I am building and testing templates for trading Unleveraged Stocks, Unleveraged Forex, and Unleveraged Futures. Each has unique statistical properties, which are exposed by the simulations using your software. I really like the new Templates feature!! The results of my simulations tell me what leverage I can safely utilize. I find the adaptive-non-linear-filter add-ons to be what I previously felt I had to write myself, but now am finding that they work perfectly according to my most optimistic hopes. I am achieving great results with short, simple adaptive filters, particularly the ANI and TP2, which are very complementary (each works better than the other in different cases). The NI add-on seems very capable of encapsulating trading strategy rules into a single indicator. The TP2 works very well for extrapolating price levels for estimated future optimal limit-order prices, due to its out-of sample extrapolating capability. The ANI shows capability I never dreamed of. Now I am trying to understand why they work as they do. (An ANI with lookahead of 2 can "predict" signals which return 100% for in-sample 5 years duration, and 150% out of sample backtest for 10 years afterward, trying to predict a prototype with a lead of one bar. The length of the ANI's vary from 2 to 15, and I have very carefully determined there is no future leak. What is hard for me to understand is how the ANI is not exactly predicting, but is still detecting changes in trend very short term. ( the trading rules are not assuming that the ANI can track the target, just that there is a detectable change which keeps the rules yielding a profit.) The power of this software to find unobvious relationships is astounding.       Steve Eberbach

"I run an insurance agency and trade part time (evenings). I started trading with the NeuroShell Trader Professional at the end of January 2001, and today (April 18th) I have doubled my money with 71 trades. The best returns have been coming with the Cluster Indicators, and the others have been done with Adaptive Net Indicators. I feed momentum indicators into these. I Trade CMVT, SANM, SPOT, BBBY, and MCHP."       Jenner Jones

Being a long time user of NeuroShell Trader Professional and having many of the Ward System add-ons, I find the Fuzzy Pattern Recognition Indicator works like a dream. I am always looking for "Triggers", indictors that can be used as a final signal to generate a buy or sell. These "Triggers" of mine must reduce unnecessary trades. I have found your Fuzzy Pattern Recognition Indicator to be the best "Trigger" so far. It easy to use in conjunction with all zillion indicators that are part of the Trader and I highly recommend this add-on.       Mark Behrendsen

I would like to say thank you for providing knowledgeable and timely support to me as a user of The Trader Pro. You are definitely in the top league here. Not every time one buys a software package one ends up pleased. I am happy to say, around a year after becoming a customer, that your software as well as the support is top notch. Keep up the good work! Kind Regards,       Jonas Bengtsson Sweden

A Big Thank-you to all at Ward Systems for your help and superior customer service ! To my surprise, after placing my order over the phone on Tuesday morning my time (Melbourne Australia), a UPS package arrived last Friday afternoon, containing Neuroshell Trader Professional, The Data CD, Neural Indicators and Cluster Indicators. I’m only “scratching the surface” so to speak thus far, however, even my very brief testing has produced some results that are nothing short of astounding (especially using the Cluster Indicators), and has already caused a major rethink of indicator inputs and strategies. Keep up the good work and your exemplary customer service. Many Thanks,       Jim T. Australia