Important Information

Providing Entity

The provider of all written, multimedia and electronic material offered by Home Trader Signals and Backtesting Made Simple is HomeTrader Pty Ltd (ACN 119 985 438) (‘HomeTrader’). More information can be found in the HomeTrader Financial Services Guide, which you should read prior to purchasing any products or services from HomeTrader. HomeTrader is a corporate authorised representative (No. 301972) of Australian Financial Market Services Pty Ltd (ACN 115 752 102) which holds Australian Financial Services Licence No. 295337.

Australian Financial Services Licence

HomeTrader is a corporate authorised representative (No. 301972) of Australian Financial Market Services Pty Ltd (ACN 115 752 102) which holds Australian Financial Services Licence No. 295337.

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Significant Skill Required

There is no guarantee that a subscriber to Home Trader Signals will be able to accurately follow the published signals to the extent that the results experienced by the user are similar to the results published by Home Trader Signals.

Significant skill and experience is required to be able to effectively use the trading recommendations provided by the Home Trader Signals website.

To the extent that is permitted by law, HomeTrader and Australian Financial Market Services nor their employees, affiliates or contractors have any responsibility for the accuracy of the information contained in this website, documentation, software or training materials, nor do they provide any guarantee that the use of this website or our products and services will result in achieving a profit from financial markets.

General Advice Only

Past performance is not a guarantee or a reliable indication of future results. Trading involves risk of loss and may not be suitable for you. All information contained in this website, our documentation, software and training materials is of a general nature only and must not in any way be considered as personal advice.

The decision to invest or trade and the method selected is a personal decision and involves an inherent level of risk, and you must undertake your own investigations and obtain your own financial advice regarding the suitability of our products for your circumstances.

Please ensure you obtain and read the current offer documentation, if relevant, prior to acquiring the products advertised herein, so you are fully informed regarding the key risks and costs associated with these products.
To the extent that is permitted by law, HomeTrader nor its directors, employees, affiliates or contractors do not have any responsibility for the accuracy of the information contained in this website or in our documentation, nor do they endorse or recommend the use of this website to derive a profit from financial markets 

Privacy

Your privacy is important to us and we are committed to complying with the Privacy Act and the National Privacy Principles. By using our services you authorise us to provide the information, contained in the records referred to above, to companies related to HomeTrader and Australian Financial Market Services for the purpose of allowing them to offer you additional services and facilities from time to time. Naturally, you may chose to revoke that authorisation at anytime by notifying us in writing.

We may disclose your personal information to external parties, such as our financial service providers, for the purposes of arranging / facilitating your investments or transactions. Such external parties are required and committed to protecting your privacy.

If you wish to access information we hold about you, please ask us and we will make arrangements for you to do so

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Backtesting

IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE REFERRING TO THE BACKTESTED DATA.

HomeTrader Pty Ltd (‘HomeTrader’) regularly conducts research into various trading systems and software as part of its commitment to provide a comprehensive and up to date training programme relating to financial product trading. In the past year HomeTrader has conducted research by backtesting transactions using various trading systems and obtained the results referred to in the documentation provided or on our websites. 

HomeTrader is providing you with the information to provide a brief overview of the various systems tested and to indicate the results of its backtesting. Please note that these are provided as pure statistical analysis. Nothing in these tables should be construed as suggesting the benefit of one system vis-à-vis over any other, nor of the prospects of achieving such returns in the future. The transactions occurred over a 10 year period and despite this time frame, you need to be aware that these results may not provide an indication of likely future performance, particularly over a shorter term timeframe.

HomeTrader provides the backtested data without any representations as to its accuracy or completeness. The backtested data is not a complete system upon which you should base financial decisions, but, passive data which you may use in evaluating your own self-designed systems. The backtested data does not provide financial advice, recommendations or opinions. Any interpretation of the backtested data provided to you that leads to you acquiring, holding or disposing of a financial product or financial service is entirely at your own risk. Neither HomeTrader, its related body corporates nor their representatives accept any liability in relation to the provision of the backtested data.

It is also important to understand the inherent limitations of a backtest. A backtest does not involve actual trading or investing, nor actual investment performances being achieved. A backtest is a simulation of what an investor might have achieved in the past (based on a series of theoretical assumptions) using a particular investment methodology. As with any simulation, the theoretical results will be dependent upon the assumptions made in the backtest, including but not limited to the timing of the execution of trades and transaction costs.

Backtesting is only helpful as broadly a “modelling” tool of what may have occurred had a particular strategy been adopted, subject to the assumptions made by the backtester. In fact, there may be sharp differences between simulated performance results and actual results subsequently achieved by any particular trading programme because of the inherent limitation of being able to model every possible variable into the programme (such as market sentiment). By way of example, if a backtester sought to analyse the performance of an investment strategy  for Internet IPOs on world markets by backtesting data from the so-called “dotcom boom” years in the mid to late 1990s, the strategy would have been seen to outperform the market. Applying the same backtested investment strategy between 1999 and 2002 would have resulted in significant losses.

Backtested data should not be used as a predictive or forecasting tool as to what may happen in the future, past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. Neither HomeTrader, its related body corporates nor their representatives make any representations about the ability of the backtested data to assist in producing future returns.

HomeTrader Pty Ltd is a corporate authorised representative (No: 301972) of Australian Financial Market Services Pty Ltd which holds AFSL No 295337.