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Earnings seasons brings to a close another slow month here at Synergy Trader Pro seeing only 2 trades come in through our software during the month of April. Although we had two very nice trades come through, unfortunately we are just paying the commissions as we had 1 winner and one loser. We expected our winner; PRTS to be more volatile than it was and this just goes to show that we are in a difficult market to trade in. Stocks are at a point where it's much easier to go down than it is to go up on any type of market volume.

However, things could have been worse for us because we were fortunate that we did not get stopped out of our PRTS position on a false AP tweet that sent the markets tumbling for several minutes before it was confirmed that there was NOT an explosion at the white house. Many people were stopped out of positions on this 5 minute free fall as many stop losses were triggered on the way down.

We have a short newsletter for you this month so we just want to cover the latest news around the community and talk about our two plays that came through the software. We are looking forward to the action picking up in May and hope that we can duplicate our results from last May, which were off the charts!

Latest News:

• We have a new newsletter design! You may have noticed some differences in our newsletter, we are working on creating a brand image that stays consistent throughout the website, social media and email marketing segments. We think this new newsletter looks much more professional and will be more enjoyable to read.

• Lookout for a new message board / forum coming soon on the website. We are striving to build relationships with our users and we feel a forum where we can discuss our strategy as well as current or past trade ideas will be a perfect addition to this service.

• Our new "Double your $$" challenge account is fully funded and we are set to begin tracking these result on May 1st - Be sure to check back often as I will be making regular updates following our progress. I estimate that using this system and with a little luck we should be able to double this account in roughly 12-15 months.

• We would like to welcome our new members that joined us in March. We hope that you find this service useful and please feel free to contact us anytime with any questions or concerns that you may have.

A summary of our picks from April 2013:

PRTS was called after the market closed on 4/9 with a closing price of $1.07 per share. After waiting 30 minutes after the market opened our software opened a positioned at $1.12. Stocks under $2 can be very volatile so our software gives them a little more "cushion" in terms of a stop loss price. In this case PRTShad a 10% stop loss instead of our usual 6% in overbought markets. This proved to come in handy as PRTS stumbled along most of the month, dipping to a low of $1.05 which is 6% of our purchase price and WOULD have triggered our stop loss if we didn't allow this cushion. Luckily for us PRTS bottomed here and slowly marched north allowing us to take a 10% gain 4 trading days later when it reached $1.23. As of this writing, our PRTS trade has seen a maximum potential GAIN of 15% topping out at $1.29 on 4/25.

CPE was called just after the market opened on 4/11 previously closing at a price of $3.57 per share. After waiting 30 minutes after the market opened our software opened a positioned at $3.76. CPE shot up to a high of $4.00 on the day where it smashed directly into the daily 20 day moving average. This proved to be a brick wall because that was it for CPE - the next day it reversed course, eventually stopping us out 2 days later at our 6% loss limit of $3.53. Synergy Trader Pro recorded a LOSS of 6% on the trade.

Any other picks that were called within 7 days of the end of the month will be covered in the next newsletter. This month that includes: N/A

We expect the action to pick up in May and we are very excited to start our "Double your $$" challenge. Feel free to play along as ALL of our picks our being sent out via email in real time. Just sign up for a FREE account to get started!

As always feel free to contact us with any questions/suggestions. Our goal here at Synergy Trader Pro is to build relationships with like-minded traders who seek a systematic and automated way to trade the stock market.

Happy Trading!

We were back on track in March with the number of trade ideas that have come through our software. However, this month as had more losers than winners. With the market being so overbought any pull back can be disastrous to our current positions when we are using tight 5-6% stop losses.

Our trading system mitigates risk by setting tight stops. With the recent volatility in the markets near the end of this month several of our open positions have been getting stopped out making March our first losing month since April of LAST YEAR! Folks that is one entire year without a monthly loss on our picks and that is something to be proud of! It's has been an incredible winning streak and we are expected to give some back every once and awhile so we are not worried about some red this month.

In this market or any market for that matter you will NOT win 100% of the time, if anyone tells you that they do - I would advise you to run because they are full of it! Our top priority here is to be as transparent as possible with our users which is why we have absolutely no problem reporting our losses or the fact that we had a bad month.

Latest News:

• Look out for a new message board / forum coming soon to the website. We are striving to build relationships with our members and a forum where we can share trade ideas, discuss our strategy and talk about any current or past trade ideas will be a perfect addition to this service.

• Be sure to look out for and follow our upcoming "Double Your $$" challenge where I will fund a live account with $5,000 at MBTrading.com and document the progress made using this trading software. I estimate that using this system and with a little luck we should be able to double this account in roughly 12-15 months. We plan to kick this off sometime in April or the beginning of May!

• We would like to welcome our new members that joined us in March. We hope that you find this service useful and please feel free to contact us anytime with any questions or concerns that you may have.

A summary of our picks from March 2013:

MERU was called after the market closed on 3/5 with a closing price of $4.40 per share. MERU was one of the bright spots for us this month as it jumped quickly out of gate and began to make a very nice rise right from the start. We were able to open a position the next morning at $4.64 (which is a .24 cent gap up from the previous close) but it did not matter as MERU continued to rise through the day.

These are my favorite type of swings as we reached our 10% price target the VERY SAME DAY near the close and were able to exit the trade at $5.10 resulting in a nice profit. MERU has continued to climb even higher throughout the month realizing a maximum GAIN of 50% topping out at $6.95 on 3/28.

CDXSwas called after the market closed on 3/7 with a closing price of $2.34 per share. Stocks under $2 can be quite volatile as this one also immediately started moving higher on the open after waiting 30 minutes for a pullback we were able to enter the stock only .06 cents higher than the previous close at $2.40 per share. The very next day CDXS scared us a little bit as it had a correction of around 7%, luckily we had opened are position early enough the day before to withstand this - missing our stop loss by only a few cents. The next day CDXS took off and we realized our 10% profit a few days later on 3/14. As of this writing it appears we timed CDXS perfectly as once it hit our target it began to break down. We are happy to report that CDXS realized a maximum GAIN of 11% topping out at $2.66 on 3/14.

CVOwas called an hour after the market opened on 3/12, we immediately opened a position at $2.33. We really liked this one when the play was called but unfortunately it was sitting around some heavy resistance points in the 50 and 200 EMA's. The stock made a high of $2.40 that same day but that was all as it bounced off the EMA's and continued lower throughout the month. As of this writing CVO has realized a maximum LOSS of 21% percent on 3/27.

ACWwas called during market hours on 3/13 and we opened a position at $4.90 - only seconds from when the insider purchase information was made public. ACW was another picture perfect swing trade as it held a steady rise north allowing us to take our profits only 2 days later on 3/15. As of this writing ACW continued its upward trend realizing a maximum GAIN of 17% topping out at $5.74 on 3/18.

SYNCwas called after the market closed on Friday 3/15 with a closing price of $3.00. When the market opened Monday morning we opened a position only 5 cents above the close at $3.05. This is another trade idea that looked great but unfortunately it remained stagnant for most of the month, making only a small run up to 7% but eventually breaking down taking out our stop loss on 3/25. As of this writing SYNC has realized a maximum LOSS of 7% on 3/25

FOLDwas called during market hours on 3/18 and we jumped in a position right away at $3.30 per share. This was another play that had some resistance lines on the chart to deal with. At the time of the call the 50 EMA was sitting at $3.42 which proved to be a great block on the price as the high so far since 3/18 has only been slightly over that at $3.59. Unfortunately for us $3.59 is a 9%gain from our entry and our stop gain is set at 10%! We missed this one by a few cents and it has since trended down, eventually stopping us out for a small loss. As of this writing FOLD has realized a maximum LOSS of 9% on 3/25

SKULwas called after the market closed on 3/18 with a closing price of $5.33. The next morning this stock gaped WAY up, opening at whopping 8% higher at $5.76. Our software waits 30 minutes after opening to make a purchase for this very reason, often the price will come down from the open and we are able to get in a better price. That was the case here as we were able to open a position $5.63 still 5% higher than the close, but much more manageable. However, SKUL was yet another disappointment as $5.84 is the highest price we would see, occurring on the same day we opened the position. Since that time SKUL has drifted lower, finally stopping us out on 3/26. As of this writing SKUL has realized a maximum LOSS of 7% on 3/26.

KTOSwas called 30 minutes before the market opened on 3/19. Our software still waited 30 minutes before making a purchase allowing us to get into this trade at $4.98, which was only .12 cents higher than where it closed. KTOS is still open and this is another one that we like a lot. It is currently hovering right above its 200 EMA, which is FAR better than being below it like on some other plays we had this month. As always, we are looking for a 10% gain on KTOS, hopefully we will realize that soon.

TWERwas called after the market closed on 3/25 with a closing share price of $2.36. We were able to open a position the next morning at exactly the same price. TWER had a small run up to $2.42 before heading south. We were eventually stopped out the next day taking a small 6% loss on the trade. As of this writing TWER has realized a maximum LOSS of 10% on 3/27.

Any other picks that were called within 7 days of the end of the month and are still in play will be covered in the next newsletter. This month that includes: N/A

Even though March was our first losing month in quite some time I am not discouraged. The reason being that insider buying activity as picked up considerably since January and February. This is almost always a good sign, Officers and Directors are seeing VALUE in the market and the companies that they run right now.

As stated previously, we remain extra cautious in overbought markets so on market consolidation days where we see the DJIA down anywhere from 100-200 points it can sometimes take our stops out because most ALL stocks are down only to bounce right back the next day.

April is the beginning of earnings season so I expect to have less plays come through our software next month, but then we have May which was our best month on record last year so looking forward to see what we can do then!

As always feel free to contact us with any questions/suggestions. Our goal here at Synergy Trader Pro is to build relationships with like-minded traders who seek a systematic and automated way to trade the stock market.

Happy Trading!

Disclosure: I am long KTOS.

As February winds down and comes to a close we are still left wondering what the markets have in store for us during the next several months. February continued the trend with a slightly below average number of picks on the month. We normally average around 5 stock picks per month and we registered 4 picks in February, only 2 picks better than our historically slow month of January but not terrible by any means.

This leads me to believe that corporate executives and 10% share holders remain skeptical of this rally and are expecting to see a correction coming in the near future. With the looming budget cut deadlines approaching at the end of the month coupled with the Federal Reserve unable to make up their mind on QE - or no QE - we may be beginning to see the catalyst to the downside that we have been expecting. The markets remain in extremely overbought territory and must correct themselves at some point. The question in our opinion is just when that occurs. The last week of February did in fact see a minor pull back that tested the 50 DMA on the DOW, however we remain skeptical that this was the correction we are looking for - but it is a step in the right direction. We will see how early next month plays out and hopefully we start to see some insider buying activity pick up again soon.

We try not to predict market direction - we just play along with what the big boys are doing, right now they are not buying stock so as always time will tell when we start seeing more insider activity.

Our online stock trading system mitigates risk by setting tight stops (6% in an overbought market to be exact). With the recent pullback on the 20th and 21st we were stopped out of 2 of the 4 positions we had open. Of the remaining 2 positions, one has had a sizable gain of which we have already taken our profits and the other has remained stagnant. On the whole we expect to exit February neutral without any significant gains or losses to our bottom line.

As always, we would like to welcome our new members that joined us in February. We hope that you find this service useful and please feel free to contact us anytime with any questions or concerns that you may have.

(VTUS) was called after the market closed on 2/6 with a closing price of $2.56 per share. The stock opened up just 1 penny higher the next morning and we were able to open a position at $2.59. (VTUS) stayed in a very tight range for 3 days until we finally got the pop we were looking for. Two days later on 2/13 we reached our target price and exited the position for a small but efficient 7% gain in only 5 trading days! As of this writing (VTUS) has realized a maximum GAIN of 22% topping out at $3.18 on 2/28.

(HA) was called after the market closed on 2/7 with a closing price of $5.70 per share. The stock gaped up 10 cents at the open, after waiting 30 minutes for a pullback we were able to enter the stock a tad below the open at $5.78 per share. Unfortunately (HA) has had a stubborn wall of resistance in the form of a 200 day EMA sitting at $6.00, the stock has touched this line several times, but so far as been unable to break through. Our software will hold a position for 30 days and sell automatically if a gain or loss is NOT realized. We are looking for $6.18 on (HA) but time is running out as it will sell automatically on Monday 3/11. As of this writing (HA) remains in neutral territory without any substantial gain or loss.

(LPHI) was called during market hours on 2/13 while it was trading near its lows for the day at $3.78. Our software immediately was able to pick up shares for $3.80. A surge of volume came in and lifted the share price to a high of $4.02 on the day, putting us only .04 cents away from our 7% target of $4.06 in only 30 minutes! Unfortunately this spike was as high as it got and it slow drifted lower over the next several days. We eventually were stopped out during the market downturn on 2/20 for a 5% loss on the trade. As of this writing (LPHI) has realized a maximum LOSS of 10% bottoming out at $3.41 on 2/20.

Although (LPHI) will go down as a loss, it was an excellent pick that showcased why we prefer to use an automated online stock trading strategy. The insider purchase information was made public at exactly 2:43:26 EST (as can be seen here).

The very SECOND this information hit the wires our software was able to: scan the stock, determine it passes as a valid trade per our requirements AND make a successful purchase at the asking price - all within 42 SECONDS! This allowed us to enter the trade BEFORE the rush of volume came pouring in driving the stock up approximately 6% in only 30 minutes.

Below is a small screen capture of our trading platform showing exactly when the trade was placed. This is why we use automated stock trading solutions.

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(NPSH) was also called during market hours on 2/20. The news hit the wires at 9:58:11 EST (which can be viewed here) while the stock was trading near $2.00. Our software is designed to give a little more leeway in terms of a percentage gain/loss cushion for securities priced under $2.00. Unfortunately we were forced to open a position at $2.03, plus this was a peculiar time to have a pick come through as the market was in a free fall. (NSPH) made a brief move higher to $2.07 the next day but the drop in the overall markets finally took hold and sent (NSPH) tumbling down as well forcing us to stop out at 5% when the stock hit $1.93. As of this writing (NSPH) has realized a maximum LOSS of 7% bottoming out at $1.88 on 2/21

An interesting thing to note about (NSPH) is that had we been able to enter this stock under $2.00 our stop loss would have been greater than 5% and as of this writing we would still be holding a position. However, the important thing to keep in mind is that this is a trading system.

We are proving that over time, this stock trading strategy produces many more winners than losers. By limiting our losses and taking our small gains as they come, we WILL make money using this online stock trading strategy.

Any other picks that were called within 7 days of the end of the month will be covered in the next newsletter.

This month that includes: N/A

As you can see, February was an interesting month. Based solely on insider buying activity I think that we have a somewhat clearer picture that the markets could be in for a medium sized correction. Hopefully the red markets we saw at the end of the month WAS the correction. Like I stated in the introduction, time (and insider buying) will tell!

Although we leave the month neutral in gains we are happy because we were able to limit our losses by using a trading system that does not allow our emotions to get in the way leaving us in a vulnerable trading position.

As always feel free to contact us with any questions or suggestions. Our goal here at Synergy Trader Pro is to build relationships with like-minded traders who seek a systematic and automated way to trade the stock market.

Disclosure: I am long HA.