Common Questions About
The Bonsai Elite Wavetrader System
And The Big Kahuna Trading Club:

Q: Where does the name Bonsai Elite Wavetrader come from?

A: The course was aptly named the Bonsai Elite Wavetrader to signify the powerful stock waves the trading system is capable of isolating. The Bonsai Pipeline located in Hawaii (also known as "Banzai" or "Bonzai") is a surfing mecca, providing some of the largest surfing waves in the world - especially during specific times of the year, not unlike the stock market's powerful waves that also follow similar cycles. Since the primary focus of the B.E.W. style of high momentum stock cycle surfing is in isolating the market's top stock surfing prospects, we thought it was a great fit.

Q: If this trading system is so powerful, why have I not heard of it?

A: Primarily because this system is a brand-new form of trading momentum stocks. The research and course was finished in early 2008, and we've spent the last several months finishing a series of videos to supplement the courses, as well as preparing for the national marketing campaign, which you've just been exposed to. In due time, many more people will hear about this system.

Q: Is this trading system for real? Is it really possible to get gains of 50% to 100% percent or more in a stock in just a few weeks or months?

A: Yes and yes. But don't let me mislead you, not every stock is going to score a dramatic gain, nor will every trade the system generates, pan out - that's just the nature of the stock market. The average returns in many of the indexes over the last several years have been abysmal. This system gives you an edge for finding stocks that are about to break out for dramatic gains. Like any form of stock trading, the general market conditions can affect the outcome dramatically. The heart and soul of the stock surfing approach to the Bonsai Elite Wavetrader style of stock trading is to "go where the waves are."

If there are no "waves", or the waters are "choppy" that would be a good time to put up the surfboard and wait. One of the things this course will teach you is that over-trading rather than under-trading can lead to stock market losses.

And then you have personalities to deal with. Not every trader is going to take a system like this and have the same results as the person who developed it. This is because personalities come into play, your belief systems, your work ethic, the ability for you to adapt this style of trading to your own personality. Don't get me wrong, there are many types of momentum plays for every type of personality, but some people try to become a type of trader that they are not. They try to push when they are best at pulling, and when you ignore what you do best, just so you can be like the other traders, your results may not be as good.

What this system will do for you, is give you an edge that you otherwise might not have had. It will help you learn how to isolate some of the top prospects in the market. There are usually only a handful of A-rated stocks each year that can be classified as "cream of the crop" momentum stocks. The ones that bring it all together - momentum, liquidity, fundamentals, pattern quality, etc. These are the ones that this system is best suited to isolate with our proprietary BMI indicator (no, it's not complicated).

Q: Is this a complicated system, and will I be able to understand it and implement it once I've gotten through the course?

A: This course was written for the lay person, and does not have complicated criteria for stock selection. I had a distinct advantage when I first began researching and writing this course - I did not have my hands tied by years of using exotic trading mumbo-jumbo. I actually let the charts tell me how to trade the stocks. This intensive study led me to many understandings about stock trading in my journey to stock market success. Having a background as a real estate investor instead of a stock trader, was probably a good thing, because I didn't "know it all" and was open to new ideas and concepts that I otherwise might not have been.

Even advanced traders will benefit tremendously from the knowledge that clearly and concisely pulls together the concepts behind high-impact short and intermediate term swing trading. The information on stock super-cycles is breakthrough information, and can enable those versed in this style of trading to "surf some of the stock market's biggest waves" with grace.

I challenge any one of you advanced traders out there who have studied or used other systems to try our B.E.W. trading system! With a 2-week sneak peek trial for a nominal fee your risk is minimal. This is breakthrough information which will help you take your trading to the next level. Where many traders see "randomness" we saw order-knowing the consistencies of the order in the market can dramatically enhance your capabilities as a stock trader.

Q: Is your trading system best suited for swing traders, option traders or investors?

A: Frankly, all of the above! The first thing you need to do if you want to become a successful stock trader is to find the right stocks to trade. Our stock selection system is second to none. For example, many of the optionable stocks that our stock selection criteria pick up are heading into long-term cycles. These stocks selected based on our momentum criteria are capable of BIG things. Several of our top optionable stocks from the 2007 cycle were up 200-300%+ on the stock, not even taking into account the options.

As far as whether this style of trading is appropriate for investors, it is ESPECIALLY suited for investors who take a longer-term approach to trading. Depending on the overall market conditions at the time, the B.E.W. stock scans are capable of isolating stocks heading into long-term cycles. These are the types of trades that, once placed and they get a head of steam, are capable of allowing you to turn off your computer and check back in 6 months with the stock up 100-200%+.

As far as swing trading, it is ideally suited for helping swing traders understand the simplicity of using the correct stock cycle analysis as well as our "attention windows" timing models to identify turning points for entering and exiting trades. Combining several of our short-term swing trade entry and exit strategies - such as stock cycles, wave analysis, candlestick analysis, moving averages, price point and accumulation analysis - can help take your swing trading to a whole new level.

Q: I would like to ask if the course is suitable for trading in markets other than the US. If I can be assured that this is so, I will give serious consideration to purchasing the course.

A: Although I haven't personally traded any foreign accounts, I don't see why that wouldn't be the case. It works on every American index including the pink sheet stocks. Even thinly traded American stocks, which may be the case with many foreign indexes and stocks.

This system can even be applied to other forms of investing like real estate investing. The basic premise of this system is that you are looking for a "change of character."

What constitutes a "change of character" is what this course is all about. It is not rocket science stuff….but it works. And unlike many other vendors who simply talk about how good their system is, we've actually spent the last few years in the World-Class Bottomspringers Trading Club proving it.

Q: This sounds like a busybody course, where I have to be constantly looking for stocks. Is that true?

A: This form of stock trading can be as busy as you want to be. If you prefer a laid-back style of momentum stock trading, there are a few types of trades you may prefer. If you like a lot of action, there are several other types of trades. You get to pick. The main thing I suggest is that you pick a style of trading that suits your own personality, and not try to be a type of trader that you are not.

Q: As I am 70 and not as fast at pulling the trigger, can one auto-trade recommendations coming from your approach?

Unfortunately this is not a black box system. But there are scans and PCF's (personal criteria formulas) you can use to filter out these trades, but if you are referring to a mechanistic approach where the computer generates the buy and sell signals, this is not one of those types of systems.

Q: Is the manual downloadable, or do I have to wait for the shipping?

A: After your sneak peek period has ended and your order is processed it will be shipped within 2-3 business days. It is not a download. For those who purchase the physical product they will receive 4 trading manuals, 8 videos, free reports, stock scans and bonuses. For those who purchase the digital version, this material will come only on DVD's with non-printable PDF files.

Q: How easy is it to find the set-ups per your manuals? Do I need expensive charting packages to find these set-ups?

A: No, you don't need an expensive charting program. There are even free sites you can use - but I don't believe these have search capabilities. Worden.com has a $29 per month service that works excellent for this type of trading. I'm sure there are others - but I haven't personally used those so I can't recommend them.

Q: Why should I believe the types of trades you say are possible with the Bonsai Elite Wavetrader system? I get a lot of stuff in the e-mail and it all sounds great until you get the information and then doesn't pan out - why should I believe this is different?

A: First of all, let's get something straight. There is no Holy Grail for trading. If there was, everyone would use it and then it would stop working for sure. We understand that people are "war-weary" with the constant battle from Internet spam, product hype and just all around dishonest people marketing every product imaginable. This course and Trading Club may or may not be for you - I don't know what your trading goals are.

But I will say that if you are truly interested in a system that works in the market every day and is capable of identifying stocks that have the potential for dramatic short and long-term gains sometimes up to 50-100%+ in days, weeks or months, not years like many trading systems out there, then I know of no better system for identifying these stocks. The news that propels these stocks often leaves a trail of clues in the trading action and learning to interpret those clues correctly can place you in the upper echelon of traders.

My own personal background, besides being a real estate investor, was that for many years I was in the contracting business - remodeling, painting and then later renovating houses. I know about hard work and wanted value for every dollar I spent, and looked suspiciously on anything that sounded too good to be true. So I understand the skepticism. But as I said before, I don't just talk about how good this system is. My trading partner Daryl Thompson and I have spent the last few years in our stock trading chat room with professional traders looking over our shoulders, proving it worked.

Our stock selection system is second to none – having identified many of the stock market's top performing stocks of the last few years at or near optimal entry points. That doesn't mean every stock our scans identify go straight up in price. If the trade doesn't show signs that it will do what we expect, then we move on the next one. That's why it's called "Stock Surfing." We go where the waves are. No waves, no surf.

Q: Is this course breaking any new ground here? I see a lot of courses out there and they all seem to be re-hashes of other courses. What makes this one so different?

A: This is where we think we excel. It is definitely not a rehash of every course you may have studied. Between Daryl Thompson and me we have invested tens of thousands of dollars into trading systems, and we know of no other trading system out there like ours. There is no other trading system that has so completely broken down the internal cycles of the stock market's top performing stocks like this one has.

Daryl was so impressed with the trading course when he first saw it that he became like the Remington razor guy and wanted to "buy the company". He didn't have to. I was so impressed by his stock trading calls that I invited him to joint venture with me for the last few years in the Bottomspringers trading club to help refine, improve and perfect the trading system.

The combination of the B.E.W. stock selection criteria with Daryl's "candlesticks on steroids" approach to stock trading took this style of trading, especially the swing trading aspects of it, to a whole new level.

If there was only one trading system you could ever use, of course ours is the one I would recommend - but there are many trading systems out there that are good and have value. And, like the painter who uses a paint sprayer for the big areas and a paint brush for cutting in the edges, you just have to decide what type of trader you want to be. Then you can either choose several different tools to use (depending on what market you are in) or only one tool that does it all.

I would say that if there was one type of trader this particular style of trading was geared to more than the others, it would be the trader who is less interested in day to day trading, and is more interested in finding the right stock to trade through several weeks to 2-3 month plus cycles or longer, without constantly checking on the stock. Someone who would like to trade the longer-term cycles with some of the market's top potential momentum plays.

To summarize, the primary difference I see is that many trading courses are either heavily weighted towards short-term trading, scalping small percentages here and there and requiring a much more extensive knowledge of technical analysis. And others are too focused on fundamental analysis, without regards to the current trading action of a particular stock. Our form of trading acknowledges the role of fundamentals in choosing quality trades, yet we pay much more attention (at least in the short-term) to the trading action of the stock.

If you have heard the saying "buy the rumor, sell the news," this is no accident. Smart money and insiders pay much closer attention to the internal company fundamentals, their industry and broad market trends. So they usually have a head start on the general public when it comes to news that will positively affect the company. By the time the news becomes public knowledge, many of these investors sell into the mad rush to lock in their profits. This often leaves the public "holding the bag" while the price slides back due to profit taking by the smart money crowd.

This is all the more reason to observe the trading action to look for signs of accumulation and become a "silent partner" with the smart money crowd. With 7,000 companies in the stock market, it is much easier to identify changing fortunes in a company's stock by looking at a snapshot of the company's chart vs. poring over extensive financial records.

Our system is uniquely designed to capture the big moves in the market. It is based on a study of some of the stock market's biggest movers and is evidenced by the system's ability to identify potentially explosive breakouts well in advance of their moves.

Our simple and proprietary BMI indicator helps us harvest some of the best performing stocks in the today's market. No, we don't catch every big breakout, and we don't always get out at the best price possible. But we dramatically put the odds in our favor that if there is a big mover in the stock market, it may be on our radar.

Hey, let's face it. There is not any kind of "stock market college" out there where they teach you how to trade stocks. You are more or less at the mercy of the marketplace in sifting through gobs of information on trading systems. We spent over two years tweaking and improving this system before we foisted it on the masses. We proved it worked like gangbusters to a small group of professional traders. Now we are expanding this opportunity to the public.

To summarize, without giving away the whole system, I can tell you that it is a unique form of stock trading and has several basic premises. Using momentum analysis, cycle analysis, pattern quality analysis, fundamentals and timing models, this system is able to isolate some of the best potential stocks in the market. These are stocks like TASR, HANS, ERS, IIIN, etc. all mega-movers that show up on our screening filters based on how they fit the aforementioned criteria.

Q: When you refer to stock market waves, are you referring to Elliot Waves?

A: For those of you who aren't familiar with it, the Elliot Waves system is a technical analysis tool based on mathematical ratios. No, I am not referring to those kinds of waves. The kind of waves I am talking about are based on price thrusts. There are a consistent number of waves that often form during a breakout or pullback in a high momentum stock cycle, and understanding how and where these waves set up can lead to near perfect trade entries and exits.