Firstly, £3,600 is a lot of money for me. As it was a large part of my redundancy this had to be considered as an investment and not a chunk of cash that I could comfortably loose. Before taking the Trendsignal Plunge, I did as much research as I could. At the time (6 months ago) I found that any reviews on the net independent of the Trendsignal website where very old and of mixed opinion. I came to the conclusion that considering the £3,600 outlay, anyone having a negative experience with Trendsignal would easily make their way onto the net and leave a bad review. After all, people pour their heart and soul into a review (good and bad) about a £1,500 holiday so I felt comfortable that given that there were no, recent, negative reviews out there. Trendsignal would be a good investment. Before purchasing, I had been looking at trading for some time. I had bounced from one system to another. Blown my trading account on more than one occasion and joined every trading forum out there that was to join. Basically, I was not new to trading. But what I did need was a system and accompanying strategies that would provide me with consistency, leading to profits. As per the testimonials and the accompanying intro of every Trendsignal video. When assessing Trendsignal you have to clearly distinguish between Trendsignal the product, and Trendsignal Ltd, the company. Trendsignal (Product) The product is basically a bunch of indicators that sit on a trading platform called Ensign (Reviews Available). There is very limited intelligence as to how these indicators work and interact with each other. What I mean by that is that you, the trader, have to align all of the indicators (4 of them) and pull the trigger. There is one indicator, the Sniper Circle, which offers some sort of intelligence but this does seem to have a mind of its own and is by no means an indication of a trade, just a potential trade. The other part of the product assessment is the strategy’s. I am not going to go into detail about these but what I will say is that there are 3 of them. Swing, Continuation and Sniper (freely watchable on the TS website). The strategy’s are very easy to learn and just as easy to implement. One of the main reasons I bought Trendsignal was because of the ‘Trades of the Day’ they feature on their website. At the time, every featured trade was on the Sniper system from the 15 minute timeframe. As I was looking to trade fulltime this was the biggest selling point for me. The problem arises about performance. After learning the system and then trading it on a demo account I wasn’t that impressed with the results and this was NOT because I didn’t understand the strategy’s. After my account went down 10%, I began to lose confidence . I spoke with my coach (not mentor... see later) and he suggested trading the higher timeframes. The problem with ‘testing’ the higher timeframes is that it takes too long to build up enough trades to fill you with confidence and belief. After all, trading £10 a point means that you risk losing £500-£900 on some of the higher timeframes. Of course, you can reduce down to £1 a point but if you want to make this worth your while and make a living in trading, anything less than £5 a point just isn’t worth it. I decided to ask Trendsignal themselves for ‘proper’ proof of performance. I didn’t just want stats. I wanted to see a trading journal of past trades for all strategies and all timeframes. After all, I have paid £3,600 and £30 a month subscription so why should I do all the donkey work? Guess what, I am still waiting. Even today there is NOTHING on their website to prove that their strategies work. The last point count for the 15 minute sniper is for January 2014. My next step was to back test myself. Having traded on MT4, back testing is a way of life. But, because of the limitations of Ensign it is way too much of a mission to go back further than 2 weeks on the 15 minutes and 4 months on the 4 hour. Even then, the Sniper circle seems to be ‘missing’ from bad trade but present for good trades. There is a technique to ‘rediscover’ a Sniper but why should I have to put in any more effort than just looking? The conclusion for back testing is that it is just not possible to effectively (12 months) test on any timeframe less than 4 hour and too much of a mission to back test on anything on or above the 4 hour. But again, why should I have to back test??? Trendsignal Ltd (The Company) I guess the only way to do this is to list my expectations and give my experiences Trendsignal Community I really thought I would be joining an active community of other Trendsignal Users where we could interact and share trading experiences. A live trading room would have been great. If not that, I was expecting to have access to a exclusive chat room and a forum where fellow Trendsignal users would be buzzing. The reality is very different. There is no chatroom or forum hosted by Trendsignal. There is a chatroom in Ensign but Trendsignal refuse to promote it, for whatever reason, and therefore it is empty. In fact, active Trendsignal users are very hard to find. Apparently, in the past there used to be a Skype group for Trendsignal users but it was closed down and Trendsignal have no intention of opening it back up. Coaching Trendsignal offer a ‘coaching’ service. Trendsignal Ltd make it clear that they consider coaches to be ‘customers’ of Trendsignal. Please note that I use the word coaching rather than mentoring. This is deliberate as the guys (Mike and Stuart) certainly do not mentor you. As there is no real Training Program for your coach to deliver, you are very much at the mercy of your coach and their commitment to you. My personal experience was that I felt sessions where rushed and I was constantly watching the clock. There was certainly no concern as to my development as a trader and no ‘arm around the shoulder’ from neither Trendsignal nor the coach. In fact, after my last coaching session there hasn’t been a single inquiry as to how I am doing and this is still the case 6 months in. The coaches are nice guys but ultimately I want is to be shown how to make money with Trendsignal not just have a new contact on Skype. Training Day I was invited to a Training day at Cranfield. My expectation was based upon a shot in the Trendsignal marketing video clip on the website. Needless to say, my experience was completely different. I travelled a day early so I could get a good night’s sleep before attending. Trendsignal ‘HQ’ is actually a satellite office in a building containing 20 plus other companies where all the facilities are shared. On arrival we were greeted and taken to the communal canteen for coffee and handshakes. We where then lead to the ‘shared’ meeting room where we grabbed a seat and. On the desk was a booklet of PowerPoint slides and a pen. We DID NOT have our own laptop as is shown in the advertising video. The training was essentially to go through the booklet we were given. There presentation was given by one of the coaches and he did have a laptop hooked up to the markets running Ensign/Trendsignal which he would occasionally reference. There was NO tea/coffee on offer at all, but they did provide lunch and cold drinks. I’m not quite sure of the purpose of the training day but the general feeling on the day was that not worth the effort unless you live local. It was a waste of time and money. I really feel for those that had flown into Milton Keynes for this event. There is no way it is worth it. I have since been in contact with other Trendsignal users (I did find some) and none of them found the training day to be worth the effort. You be better off keeping the cost of the train/plane/petrol and hotel and placing it into your trading account. Continued Support Now according to testimonials I have read. This is an area where Trandsignal are supposed to excel. 1) Weekly Workshops They do offer a twice weekly workshop service on a Monday and Thursday morning (provided you qualify). This is split in to two parts. The first 30 mins is hosted by Adrian and is a review of the snipers on the 4hour and daily timeframe. Occasionally he will deviate and answer a question that may have been asked but I have found him to be very selective as to which question he is prepared to answer. All the rest he just completely ignores and offers no follow-up. The second 30 minutes is hosted by Gerry and is an assessment of the economic news for that week. Although Gerry’s bit is interesting, it adds no value to your trading with Trendsignal and offers nothing more than what you could get from watching 30 minutes of Bloomberg with your morning coffee. No offence Gerry but I need to know when to be looking for a Sniper and making money. Not really interested in how much a bag of rice is in China. 2) Updates From my investigations, I found that Trensignal do have a tendency to move the goalposts at times when it comes to their strategies. Unfortuneately they are not very good at keeping you in the loop about this unless you watch the weekly workshops (if you qualify). It would take nothing for them to compile a mailing list and keep us all informed about observations and suggestions. They don’t even update their own website. Even now there is information on there about not taking the Yen pairs as a sniper because of trending. This posted last year and is very much out of date. It all seems a very ‘lazy’ attitude. I can honestly say, hand on heart, that since giving Trendsignal my credit card details. I have not been contacted by Trendsignal HQ once either by email, skype or phone. In fact. I do not even have a receipt from them. Conclusion As of right now, I feel I have been massively duped and bought something that is overpriced and does not work. Trendsignal Ltd seem more enthusiastic about selling software than they are about its performance. They are quite content to let ANYONE buy their product. than actually

I haven't used trend signal, but if something is too good to be true then it usually isn't true. These things are usually geared towards the company rather than you, the client and if things are going the other way than the way you think that should tell you something. I have used Vince Stanzione's course who uses Trend in which to trade and his course is £400 - half before you take his course, and then the other half payable a whole year later. His reasoning is that if you haven't earned at least £1000 in profit by the end of a year he wants to see your trading log to see where you're going wrong. And he says he will repay your £1k if you've followed his guide lines and still have made no gains. Also Sharescope is an excellent tool for using to find trends - up, down or sideways. No, I have no vested interest in these companies, but a student trader.

I agree with the other review. I cannot get into profit. Ive been on this for a year now and tried dailys, 4 hour and 15min strategies and none have come off. So many snipers indicate a trade and when it goes in the wrong direction the sniper disappears making the back testing charts look fantastically profitable but the reality is somewhat different. I don't think a swing trade strategy works in this current climate.

I paid £3,600 last December 2013 for Trendsignal. I’ve never traded before and I spent most of the Christmas holiday going through their strategies and felt I knew enough to go live in January. I have traded mainly the 240 and day charts and I’m not happy with the results. In the beginning there was plenty of trades on the day charts but lately there have been about 2 trades in the last 6 weeks and although you get some winners, one loss seems to wipe out quite a few of the wins you may have had. There are more entry’s on the 240 charts but you always seem to be entering too late and then price comes back at you and you end up losing. I even took a week off work to try the 15 minute candles and at the end of the week I just found I had lost money. I wish I could speak to some the people leaving testimonials as I am no were near as successful as them.