The Bull & Bear Pro Timer trades ALL identified trends. By trading all market trends, it never misses the big ones. Aggressive mutual fund market timers know that highly profitable trends (bullish as well as bearish) occur only once or twice each year. The Bull & Bear Pro Timer index fund timing strategy makes the majority of its profits in those rallies and declines. Mutual fund trading for fund traders who take an active role in their timing strategies.

If you are unsure what market timing strategy is best for you, aggressive timing, active timing or conservative timing using mutual fund trading strategies, this might be a good time to read our Successful Market Timing With FibTimer report which goes into each strategy in detail, and will help you determine what your market timing "emotional" comfort level is.

The Bull & Bear Pro Timer is for aggressive index fund market timers. This time proven strategy is designed to achieve profits in both bull and bear markets by moving in and out of bullish and bearish S&P and Nasdaq index funds. We use the Rydex Funds (Rydex Nova, Ursa, OTC & Arktos) to track performance results. Our market timing analysis uses Fib support and resistance analysis and Elliott Wave pattern analysis to determine current and future market trends.

    Weekly report analysis helps us to be prepared for what is "likely" to occur in the financial markets. Once our analysis is confirmed by our proprietary trend following indicators, Pro Timer Bull & Bear moves to either a long (bullish position) or a short (bearish position). We also move to CASH positions if the trend is unclear to us. Buy and sell signals are based on a trend timing strategy that does not allow interpretation, and that has a superb long term performance record.

Proprietary trend indicators for this mutual fund trading strategy, make buy and sell decisions based on both the S&P 500 Index - SPX, and the Nasdaq 100 Index - NDX. The Bull & Bear Pro Timer is invested in either long (bullish positions) or short (bearish positions), 50% in the NDX, 50% in the SPX. We also move to CASH positions if the trend is unclear to us.

Subscribers can use Rydex OTC & Arktos, Rydex Nova & Ursa, Profunds, or other S&P and OTC bull and bear index funds such as ProFunds, etc.

This strategy is designed to keep losses (drawdowns) very small. In 2002, the strategy made 14 SPX trades and 7 NDX trades. In 2003, the strategy made 16 SPX trades and 13 NDX trades and in 2004 only 9 SPX trades and 7 NDX trades. In all years, this mutual fund trading strategy beat the benchmark indices by wide margins.

When the criteria for this market timing strategy tells us to go either long or short, we reverse our position. We are always fully invested. It does not make this fund trading strategy more volatile. It actually "reduces" volatility.

We also reduce volatility by being 50% invested in S&P 500 index funds and 50% invested in Nasdaq 100 index funds (either bullish or bearish as needed) at all times. Drawdowns are thus smoothed out, and kept at a minimum, making this strategy highly attractive to mutual fund market timers and index fund switchers.

Emailed alerts are sent to all FibTimer subscribers for every trade, and the Bull & Bear Pro Timer website report is also updated for every trade. Alerts are emailed between 6-7PM, EST, and no later than 9PM, EST the evening before any change is executed.

The proprietary market timing trend indicators used in this model create specific buy and sell signals. There is no "fund trading" emotion involved in the decision making. The system has been back tested through 1999 and has been live since 2001, so its performance in both bull and bear markets has been well documented.

Pro Timer fund trading strategies are designed to keep drawdown to a minimum and always be on the right side of all major trends.

Our "Aggressive" market timing strategies will always generate a larger number of buy and sell signals than a longer term (or buy and hold) strategy. Subscribers who trade our aggressive market timing strategies should understand what such fund trading involves. When we say aggressive, we mean aggressive. Multiple trades are a common occurrence and we may have several small losses in a row. Thus a longer term (two - three years) perspective should be used to judge performance.

Our aggressive market timing strategies make large profits in trending markets and provide risk management in sideways markets. Market timing mutual funds requires commitment and mutual fund timers must be willing to stay the course to reap the benefits.

Lastly, market timing's main function is to protect against loss in declining markets. It has its largest gains during bear markets and times of market instability. Though they usually beat the markets every year, our strategies are not designed to beat a bull market, just to profit in them. The big gains are during the inevitable bears that always arrive unexpected.

If aggressive market timing is not something you will be comfortable with, you should use our longer term Conservative Strategies which trade infrequently, but successfully keep subscribers fully invested during long term advances, while protecting them in safe haven (money market funds) during long term declines. The Conservative Strategies, designed specifically for long term oriented fund traders, have superb track records, and are easy to follow and easy to stay with over time.

The Bull Pro Timer only trades bullish trends. During sideways (non-trending) markets there is considerably less volatility in this strategy because it moves to cash during declines, instead of reversing to bearish funds as the aggressive Bull & Bear Pro Timer market timing strategy does. Mutual fund trading for active fund traders.

During prolonged declines the Bull Pro Timer stays in cash (money market funds). The strategy is excellent for timers who are trading retirement accounts that do not offer bear funds, or for those who just do not like the volatility of reversing from bullish index funds to bearish index funds, and back again.

The Bull Pro Timer, though not taking bearish positions, is still an "Active" market timing strategy. The proprietary market timing trend indicators make buy and sell decisions based on both the S&P 500 Index, and the Nasdaq 100 Index. The Bull Pro Timer is either 50% in the NDX, and 50% in the SPX during long (bullish trends) or cash during bearish trends. Each 50% position is entered individually, so the strategy can be for example; 50% in bullish S&P funds, and 50% in cash, at the same time.

The Bull Pro Timer had only 3 SPX trades and 3 NDX trades in 2003. It had 4 SPX trades and 4 NDX trades in 2004.

Emailed alerts are sent to all subscribers for every mutual fund trading alert, and the Bull Pro Timer website report is also updated if a trade is announced. Alerts are emailed between 6-7PM, EST, and no later than 9PM, EST the evening before any change is executed.

    FibTimer uses Rydex Nova & OTC Funds to measure market timing performance. Subscribers can use Rydex, Profunds, or other S&P or OTC index funds found in almost all mutual fund families such as Fidelity Funds, Strong Funds, Vanguard Funds, American Century Funds, Janus Funds, etc.

Lastly, the Pros and Cons of using the Bull Pro Timer instead of the Bull & Bear Pro Timer strategy.

Pro: Fund traders experience much less volatility when bearish positions are not used. During sideways markets, where ups and downs occur too fast to profit from them, this market timing strategy will have considerably lower drawdowns than the Bull & Bear Pro Timer, spending much of its time in cash.

Con: The Bull & Bear Pro Timer strategy, using both bull and bear positions, will make greater profits over long time frames (2-3 years). Trading both bullish and bearish positions, while more volatile, is also more profitable over time. But subscribers must be able to weather the ups and downs of aggressive market timing using the Bull & Bear Pro Timer. Be sure you are able to handle multiple small losses without being emotionally swayed into exiting the strategy (usually at the worst time).

For those who want less volatility, while still achieving excellent market timing profits and safeguarding capital against loss, the Bull Pro Timer fund trading strategy is the index fund timing strategy of choice.

For those more conservative fund traders who want protection from bear markets, but do NOT want to worry about actively market timing the markets (buy and sell signals are generated "less" than once a year on average), our Conservative Strategies may be the what you are looking for.