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The market picks the strategy so you don't have to.
VTM runs a roster of mechanically different strategies and reads the market's condition to decide which of them deserve capital right now — scaling up what fits, standing down what doesn't. You see every signal, and the reason any strategy is quiet; VTM never places a trade and never touches your broker.
Launching soon — join and you'll get a confirmation now, the launch date a week ahead, your login link the day it opens, and 10% off your first payment.
90 seconds
The whole idea, explained.
What VTM does, how it reads the market, and what you actually get — without the jargon. No sound required to follow it; captions are burned in.
How it works
Most tools ask you to pick a strategy. VTM asks what today needs.
A strategy that prints money in a bull market can bleed for a year in a bear one. The usual answer is to pick well and hold on. VTM's answer is to keep a roster of mechanically different strategies and let conditions decide which ones are allowed to trade.
Classify the regime
Every session, the market is classified into one of four states — bull, neutral, bear or crisis — from trend and volatility, not from opinion.
Set each posture
Every strategy holds a posture for every regime: full size, reduced, or stood down entirely. The regime sets the posture; nothing is discretionary.
Publish the signals
Strategies that are permitted and find a setup publish a complete signal — what to trade, where to enter, and how the trade ends. Everything else reports why it is quiet.
You decide
VTM never places a trade for you and never touches your broker. It shows the work; the account stays entirely yours.
The roster
Every strategy, and exactly where it fits.
Each earns its place by covering a condition or a horizon the others don't. Exact entry and exit logic isn't published — what matters to you is the role each one plays and which regimes it's built to trade in. Where each strategy's returns come from, who is on the other side paying them, and which ones are paid by nobody at all, is set out in The Other Side.
About the capital figures
The minimum is an engineering requirement, not a recommendation and not a prediction. It is the point at which a strategy can execute the way it was designed — every part of it able to operate, nothing silently switched off by the size of the account.
Below the minimum, most of these still place trades. That is exactly why the figure matters: what you lose first is not the signal, it is a piece of the design. A staged exit that can no longer stage. A rebalance that cannot reach its own threshold. A position size that rounds to nothing. The strategy appears to run, and something inside it isn't.
The recommended figure is where a strategy has room to work as intended — positions sized as designed rather than accommodated. It is not a promise about results, and neither figure is. No number on this page describes what a strategy earns. These come from what the strategies actually trade, so as prices move these figures move, and we'll tell you when one changes.
About account requirements
Strategies differ in what they need an account to be able to do — trade options, trade options on futures, sell short, or hold fractional shares. Each panel says what the strategy requires.
What your account can actually do is set by your broker, not by us. Approval levels and what they're called, house minimums, margin terms, fractional-share support, which products need a separate account, and what borrowing a stock costs or whether it's available at all — every one of those varies between brokers, and can vary between accounts at the same broker.
So read these as what the strategy needs, then confirm with your broker what you have before you subscribe. Where a requirement comes from a regulator rather than a broker we say so — but even then, brokers are free to require more than the regulatory floor, and many do.
Strategy of the week
One strategy at a time, in its own words.
The roster tells you what each strategy is for. Here we take one of them at a time — on rotation, not by whoever had the best week — and describe what the market actually did to it. This becomes a weekly rotation at launch.
Latest · Blue Chip Express
It changed its mind. Late in October the ranking shifted, so Blue Chip Express sold one holding and bought another the same afternoon — no forecast and no view, just a rule noticing that a different company now qualified.
Inside VTM
What you actually get.
Not a walkthrough video — the real screens, in miniature.
- Trend engines
- FULL
- Income strategies
- FULL
- Downturn hedges
- STOOD DOWN
- All-weather basket
- FULL
- Structure
- Call calendar
- Net debit
- $1.18
- Defined risk
- Yes
Weekly track. Regime: Bull — full size.
Which regimes your selection actually covers — and where the holes are.
- Bull
- COVERED
- Neutral
- COVERED
- Bear
- THIN
- Crisis
- NONE
Questions
The questions worth asking first.
Does VTM trade my account?
No. VTM never places a trade, never connects to your broker, and never holds your money. It publishes the regime, the postures and the signals; every decision and every order is yours.
Do you publish performance numbers?
No — and that's by design, not a placeholder. A performance curve is the one thing you can't verify before you subscribe; it can always be the flattering cut of the story. Instead, every strategy goes through the same sequence: backtesting, which is good at ruling ideas out and weak as proof; Monte Carlo testing where the strategy allows it; out-of-sample testing on periods its design never saw; and then paper testing that tracks the live market, session by session. The signals VTM publishes come from that same account, so what you receive is what the record is built from.
Not every strategy has cleared every stage, and the stage isn't a ranking. One couldn't be backtested at all, for lack of historical data. Others are finished and waiting for the market conditions they exist for, which is the next question. Where either applies, we say so. The mechanism and counterparty reasoning behind each strategy are laid out in The Other Side.
Why would I pay for a strategy that isn't trading?
Because a hedge that trades constantly isn't protecting you — it's just another strategy competing for the same gains as everything else on the roster. The downturn strategies are built to stand down for as long as the market stays healthy and hold their full size for exactly the conditions they exist to cover. You're paying for them to be built right and ready the moment that call comes, not for constant activity — which is why they're sold together as a bundle rather than individually.
It's also worth knowing this isn't really a hedge question. Nearly every strategy here is conditional, and the downturn ones aren't the most conditional — Downside Engine and Portfolio Ballast are each cleared to trade in three of the four market states we classify, while LFCM and BMBTD are cleared in one. Any roster built this way will always have something standing down. Which strategies, and when, is what the board above shows you.
Is this financial advice?
No. VTM is research and signal software. Nothing on this site is a recommendation to buy or sell any security, and nothing here is personalised to your circumstances. See the full disclaimer.
What happens when the regime changes?
Postures change with it, on the next classification. Strategies that lose permission stop producing new entries; strategies that gain it come back to full or reduced size. You see the change on the dashboard, with the classification behind it.
Pricing
Every tier sees the reasoning. Paid tiers see the trade lists.
Illustrative pricing — final numbers may change before launch. Nothing is charged today; every button below joins the waitlist.
Dashboard
The regime reasoning, always
$0 /mo
- Live regime classification
- Per-strategy status board
- No trade signals
Bundles
Pick the themes you want
$49 /mo
- Everything in Dashboard
- Four strategies per bundle, three in Downside
- Every added bundle lowers the per-strategy cost
Single strategy
Any one strategy on its own
$24.99 /mo each
- For filling one specific gap
- No bundle required
- Cancel any single strategy independently
Full Access
Every strategy on the roster
$119 /mo
- Every strategy added later too, at no extra cost
- All four bundles, Downside included
- Cheaper than three bundles plus Downside separately
- Needs the sum of every strategy’s own minimum to run them all
Snapback
When something overshoots
$49 /mo
- Overextension · Spike Short · Dip Recovery · BMBTD
- All four act against a sharp move rather than with a trend
- The most active bundle — something most days
- $7,950 to run all four at their own minimums
Trend
When a move keeps going
$49 /mo
- Blue Chip Express · Small Cap Thrust · Trend Rider · LFCM
- Directional: ride a move while it persists
- Mixed pace — weekly signals alongside monthly rebalances
- $8,700 to run all four at their own minimums
Core & Income
When you want the market to pay you to wait
$49 /mo
- CCS · Crypto Core · Spread 2.0 · Risk Rotation
- Premium selling and allocation rather than direction
- The cheapest bundle to fund, deliberately
- $5,300 to run all four at their own minimums
Downside
When the market turns
$29 /mo · or $290/yr
- Range Break · Portfolio Ballast · Downside Engine
- All three stand down while the market is healthy, by design
- A quiet account here is this bundle working. These begin taking positions only once a decline is confirmed
- $17,250 to run all three at their own minimums
What bundling saves
| What you get | One at a time | Bundled | You save |
|---|---|---|---|
| One bundle | — | $49 | — |
| Two bundles | — | $79 | — |
| Three bundles | — | $99 | — |
| Full Access · the whole roster | — | $119 | — |
| Downside | — | $29 | — |
Minimum capital shown on each bundle is the sum of its strategies’ own floors. It is what the bundle needs to run as designed, not a suggested allocation.
* Needs a margin account, so it cannot run in a cash account or an IRA at
any level of capital — Spike Short and Overextension both take short
positions.
† Read the full notice on the strategy’s own row before adding it.
Crypto Core holds a spot-Bitcoin ETF as a permanent position and carries
materially higher volatility than anything else on the roster. Blue Chip
Express is the newest strategy here and has the least evidence behind it —
paper trading only, with no backtest cited.
Three strategies — Range Break, Portfolio Ballast and Downside Engine — are
gated to bear and crisis conditions and will not trade until those
conditions arrive. They are sold together, as the Downside bundle, for
exactly that reason.
Early access
See what today's conditions actually favour.
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