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So I got a got a serious “talking to” from TRIGR mastermind, Benson George , on Friday. Benson is my senior analyst. And it was Benson who secretly commandeered my programmer, Dan Mills , to build TRIGR.

I’ll admit now that I actually was a little irritated when I’d see him walking around the office, apparently not picking stocks. Finally, one day I asked him, “Benson, don’t you have work to do?”

He grinned devilishly and said, “No, I built a machine to do it for me.”

That’s when my tutelage with TRIGR began. I’m a believer now. But I’m still a neophyte when it comes to interpreting the gospel according to TRIGR.

First and foremost, Benson tells me, TRIGR does not issue sell orders yet. Benson is adamant about this point. Benson bristled when he read my comment about a sell signal the other day.

A couple stocks that regularly appear in the Top 5 were left off, and I said I interpreted that to be a sell signal from TRIGR. Wrong. Benson pointed out with as much tact as he could, which wasn’t much, that TRIGR doesn’t give sell signals yet.

“When you’re talking about 3,516 stocks, what’s the difference between #2 and #22? Not much,” Benson pleaded.

Benson reminds me of an overprotective parent at times.

But TRIGR is his baby. And like any parent, he just wants his baby to be understood.

So we’ve got a trading system that can pull up the strongest small cap stocks. But we don’t yet know what to do with that information. At least in the short-term.

It’s clear that TRIGRs Top 5 outperform over the medium term. We’ve seen great returns in the 2-4 months after a stock makes the Top 5. The problem is: how do you choose?

Since TRIGRs debut, it’s churned out something like 140 top rated stocks. And something like 67%-69% of those stocks are up, some significantly. That’s terrific, no doubt. But at the same time, we understand that the sheer volume of winning stocks is unmanageable.

Try and track the Daily Top 5 stocks in a spreadsheet and you’ll be overwhelmed with data points within two weeks. Our programmer, Dan, is adding a performance tracking component to TRIGR now. Once that’s done, we’ll be able to pinpoint the optimal entry points, holding periods and exit points.

Finally, after a couple of reader requests, I’m going to start posting the entire Top 5 list. This should prove very interesting because I haven’t even told you about the shorts yet.

I suppose you cold call them the Bottom 5. But since TRIGR can easily identify the Top 5 stocks for long positions, it can just as easily pull up the Top 5 stocks most likely to drop in price. These stocks are prime candidates for short positions. And judging by the way the market’s acted lately, a good list of stocks to short could come in handy.

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