• Powerful COT (Commitment Of Traders) indicators
• Seasonal analysis based on years of statistical observations
• Swing trading strategies with clear oversold/overbought signals
• Automated pattern recognition - short term trading strategy

Independent market research and proprietary COT indicators.

• Our IMPA position trading system provides weekly buy and sell trigger selections in 45 futures markets.
• The IMPA analysis combines fundamental and technical data, providing one of the most thorough and advanced futures trading systems available online today!
• Our core IMPA studies incorporate powerful statistical tools & analysis of the C.O.T. data.
• Our price derived strategies include proprietary pattern recognition systems and automated daily buy and sell signals with stops.
• Our systems, data, graphs and charts are all online! No additional software or charting services are necessary for you to begin using our strategies!

Read what some of our clients have to say!

• IMPA Position Trading Strategies - IMPA stands for "Individual Market Participant Analysis" and is a unique form of COT analysis. Floyd Upperman is the designer and developer of all Floyd Upperman and Associates ("FUA") strategies and indicators provided on this site. The IMPA position trading system tracks and identifies unique market conditions based on the week to week positioning of market participants as reported by the U.S. government in the weekly commitment of traders report. Floyd's approach combines the best in traditional technical analysis with a unique fundamental analysis that qualifies and quantifies the technical analysis! The fundamental analysis is derived from the weekly commitment of traders data, and is tracked and graphed using FUA proprietary software to identify and highlight statistically significant conditions and events.
  The IMPA is a professional position trading system designed for and by an off-floor position trader. Floyd Upperman, the designer and developer of all FUA strategies is an off-floor position trader, swing trader and intra-day trader in multiple markets including U.S. equities and indices.
  Automated Buy and Sell selections are provided weekly based on the positioning of market participants. This data combined with proprietary price measures is a crucial element in IMPA "setup" trades.
  Together these core strategies (fundamental and technical analysis) are used to identify significant turning points in the markets. Using this approach we are able to isolate most longer-term trading opportunities and/or major tops and bottoms while also assessing shorter-term price fluctuations (for swing trades). Floyd's latest swing trading indicators (OB/OS oscillators) are derived from a "detrending" process using residual data extracted from a proprietary trend-line plot. Examples are available in the free chart area of the website. Be sure to review the Fastbreak futuresource article which shows how the IMPA identified the April 2000 top in the Nasdaq!
• Swing Trading strategies, indicators and methods - Intermediate term trading approaches. There are a number of intermediate term "swing trading" strategies, patterns, methods and approaches provided online to members and discussed regularly in the daily and weekly reports. Furthermore there are several online indicators that signal short-term turning points, including the new detrended studies! We also provide automated reports that signal short-term buying and selling opportunities based on specific patterns. The entry, stop and risk ($) are all provided daily in any of the 45 markets we track that currently exhibit any of our specific patterns.
• Intra-day S&P and Emini trading These strategies are complex, requiring live intra-day data. This service is an extended service. FUA provides daily updates and a live message board for those interested in short-term trading the S&P, Emini, QQQ and other markets as well. Specific short-term strategies, measures and many examples are provided to members online. However, live data is required to follow the strategies.