Summary

The Hawk+ program currently trades a diversified portfolio of approximately 26 futures contracts. The Hawk+ program is a long to medium term trend following system with an S&P 500 E-Mini day trading program. Hawk+ employs 95% systematic and 5% discretionary trading approach. Money management is an important part of the Hawk+ system and stops are entered with the entry of all positions. It tends to do best in high volatility or outlier market environments, which makes it a great addition to the standard 60/40 stock and bond portfolio. It has a zero to slightly negative correlation to the S&P 500. It has also had a low correlation to the NewEdge CTA Index. Hawk+ trades in all major sectors of the economy. The program trades futures contracts on US exchanges The S&P 500 E-Mini day trading program has had little optimization since its development nearly 20 years ago. An essential part of the program is good money management in which stops are initiated on every trade and it adheres to the principle of cutting losses short and letting profits run. The Index Trader attempts to identify recurrent patterns in the market, changes in momentum and mathematical algorithms to generate trades. The system will trade both long and short positions. Historically, it is a great diversifier since it has had a very low to slightly negative correlation to the S&P 500 index.