Technical Charting Analysis

Technical Analysis or “Charting” is the study of buying demand and selling pressure and to indentify price trends used in Trend Following, Tactical Allocation, and Dynamic Asset Management. Technical Analysis is a method of evaluating security prices and market directions based on statistical analysis of market activity such as directional trends, trading volume, price changes, relative strength or patterns. This analysis is applied to the price action of the market to develop trading decisions, such as Trend Following or Tactical Asset Management. There are many forms and uses of Technical Analysis and Charting methods. Shell Capital uses a scientific approach to Technical Analysis for its decision-making about the trendiness of the market; the directional trend, reversals of trend, volatility, etc. Rather than subjective methods of Technical Analysis and Charting often referred to as an “art”, Shell Capital employs indicators and signals for entry and exit in its Alternative Investment Program that are mathematically quantified through testing of historical data, testing with randomly generated data, and actual experience, that provides empirical evidence arriving a mathematical reasoning behind their use. That is, mathematical and statistical basis that the systems have a positive expectation, or probability, of higher average profits than average losses.

Shell Capital Management is a absolute return investment manager that develops and operates trend following and tactical allocation trading systems designed to define, identify, and exploit directional price movement found in trends that tend to persist. The aim is to participate directionally in strong trending markets and reduce the exposure to the possibility of loss (risk) in non-directional or declining markets. That is; win by not losing. The objective is to achieve a total real return in its Alternative Investment Program by employing investment risk management over complete market cycles, by focusing on achieving the specific results.

Shell Capital Management using Technical Analysis and Charting along with investment risk management, risk control, and money management, to create absolute investment performance in various market conditions (directional trends and volatility levels). The investment manager's portfolio is most commonly seen in a hedge fund structure, like a Global Macro Hedge Fund, but is instead offered as a Separate Managed Account designed for Absolute Returns and offered through independent financial advisors. As a money manager, Shell Capital Management specializes in quantitative research and portfolio management using tactical allocation, trend following, dynamical allocation, trading systems designed for an absolute return objective.