Michael K. Turner

I thoroughly enjoy making money for my clients and teaching investors how to become better, much better, at generating consistent profits in the stock market.

I don't come from a finance background. I am an engineer by training, a software systems engineer by choice, and a stock market investor by necessity. You see, in 1997, I sold my company that I had founded and ran for nearly 20 years. After the sale of the company, I had money to invest in the market, but assumed a big Wall Street firm could do a better job of investing that money than I could. So, I hired one of the best.

3 years later, that big financial firm had managed to lose nearly half of my life's savings. It was time to make a change. I fired the big Wall Street firm and began looking for tools that I could obtain that would help me do my own investing.

I immersed myself into the world of stock market investing. I researched dozens of methodologies and tried out all the major software trading tools. Being an engineer, I approached this from a rules-based, mathematical perspective. The problem was easy to define: Find stocks that will go up in market price and sell those at a profit. That is, after all, the problem all investors have that they must solve before they can become successful at investing money into the stock market.

I could not find a single product or service that would meet my requirements for investing. I needed a system that would quickly scan the universe of stocks, find those that had the best fundamentals and that were more likely than not to move higher in price. Sure, there were fundamental screeners and technical charting systems, but nothing that would do exactly what I needed.

Necessity is the Mother of Invention. As such, I brought my 20 years of experience in developing enterprise-level software systems and my analytical, rules-based mindset to bear on this problem and began the arduous process of building my own investment methodology and stock analysis tools.

This process was not easy. It took 3 years and thousands of man-hours to develop a system that combined the best of fundamental and technical analysis such that I could quickly and easily find the best stocks to own and, more importantly, the best time to sell those stocks. We all know that we don't make any money in the stock market until we sell out of a position. Selling is the single most critical aspect of a successful investor's trading strategy.

Once my system was developed, back-tested and put to work with real money' my money' I began to see substantial profits and consistent profits year after year.

People began to ask me how I was able to do this. They wanted to know my 'secret'. I told them that I don't have a secret, but I do have a solid set of common-sense rules that I follow that help me make winning and profitable trades time and time again.

So, I have that awful Wall Street firm to thank for pushing me out of my comfort zone and into the most exciting career of my lifetime. I have created two investment companies; have become a registered investment advisory; and, a very successful manager of a hedge fund and many individual investor accounts. I get the wonderful opportunity to speak thousands and thousands of investors each year at the many investment conferences that I am invited to attend. In fact, it was at one of these conferences that my publisher, John Wiley