The Trend-Checker has been designed to inform you at a glance how major currencies are behaving against one another.

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1 User's guide Please also open the user's interface (reference numbers) in order to fully understand this simple two parts guide, basics and the unique FDbar complement feature. Welcome to the Trend-Checker! The Trend-Checker has been designed to inform you at a glance how major currencies are behaving against one another. The Trend-Checker is not a trading system. See it rather as a barometer of the 5,000 billion dollars of daily transactions on the world's biggest financial market. Whether you are a trader, or a corporation, consult trend-checker.com before indulging in any trade or transaction. The Trend-Checker will help you make appropriate decisions in the direction of the trend, or possibly refrain from counterproductive commitments against it. Open the Trend-Checker, watch it behave, and set up your own alerts. You will shortly appreciate the relevance of one of the best custom-made algorithms, built upon the sole analysis of prices behavior, and not upon such classic technical indicators as moving averages, momentum, RSI, stochastics, supertrend that may sometimes look like it. Let's walk through the Trend-Checker: 1- Upon opening, the trend boxes will appear in grey for just a few seconds. "Waiting" appears on yellow background buttons until loading of real time data is complete. You can display and close as many currency panels as needed by clicking the currency panel buttons (see the user s interface). 2- Once loaded, the Trend-Checker displays 4 panels dedicated to 4 major currencies: Dollar (USD), Euro (Eur), British Pound (GBP), and Japanese Yen (JPY). Let s review a panel (2): Open and close the panels in the order you wish to place them, by clicking each currency button (2). 3- The currency pair displayed on each white on blue button combines a triptych of trend boxes, in 240, 60 and 30 minutes. A green box reflects an upward trend, a red one a downward trend on the

2 respective timeframe. 4- Slightly to the right of each triptych and beneath the currency button, stands a thermometer displaying the algebraic sum of the trends relating to the panel pair on 6 customizable timeframes (5, 15, 30, 60, 120 and 240 minutes) returned to a -100% to +100% scale. Example: a 100% thermometer represents a strong bullish push on 6 timeframes at the same time. 5- The currency monitor (8) on the right end side of the panel displays the strength of the currency vis a vis its counterparts in 9 fixed compartments over 240, 60, and 30 minutes timeframes. Our studies show these periods are best suited to reflect the underlying strength of a currency. Attention: in the currency monitor, each currency is treated as the basic currency, sometimes opposite to the pairs as traded by the brokers. For instance, the classic Euro-USD becomes USD-Euro in the panel of the dollar USD, but shows as Euro-USD in the Euro panel. This is meant to focus solely on the intrinsic strength or weakness of the dollar with regard to its counterparts. Important: The currency monitor is self-sufficient, it will immediately grasp the trend of a currency vis a vis its counterparts. 6- The alert box next to the monitor consists of 4 lines (8) you can activate to your liking: A- The first 3 lines are dedicated to each counterpart currency in the panel. When you click the number of minutes on one of the trend boxes (240 or 60 or 30), it appears in yellow, and the alert box line is shaded in the color opposite the present trend box color. That is to tell you the respective line in the alert box is in standby mode and let you know at which time the trend in the timeframe you have selected is changing course and color. You can see in our example that the USD-JPY 30 line is shaded in green. That means you clicked the 30 minutes USD-JPY presently in red, and wish to be alerted when it turns green. (See a typical tactical Trend-Checker example below to understand the principle of the alert system.) When the alert is released, the related line fills with the expected color background, and in case you activated it, an oral message will be delivered on the loudspeakers of your PC. B- Last but not least, the 4th line (USD box in the USD panel) is there to let you know when 3 compartments in the currency monitor turn all in the same color, thereby informing you the currency has turned weak or strong against all its counterparts in the timeframe you wish to select. Now click the «Settings» button at the top of the page in order to open your own parameters menu. You can close it by clicking it again.

3 Settings : Click for instance the 3G green box under 30 in the USD line, in order to be alerted when all three 30 minutes compartments will turn green altogether in the currency monitor. You can then notice on the currency monitor that the compartments are framed by green to confirm your alert has been implemented as per your request. This will provide you with a valuable indication regarding a bullish or a bearish thrust of a currency against its pairs. 7- Finally, on the left side of your settings (9) you can select other timeframes on periods other than those set by default, on a span from 5 to 240 minutes. Click a timeframe to select it, and click the previous one you wish to cancel in order to keep 3 different boxes at a time. The boxes will appear in descending order from the longest selected timeframe to the shortest one. Once done, you can set alerts on the status change of your personal timeframes by clicking the related number of minutes you wish to select. They will turn yellow and the alert will appear in standby mode in the alert box. Where do the trend boxes and currency monitor compartments come from? As mentioned earlier, the trend displayed does not depend on a traditional indicator but on our algorithm, the behavior of which is displayed below on the TradeStation platform. Here is an example of 3 charts showing the Eurodollar from 240 to 30 minutes, from top to bottom between Dec 15th and 31rst 2014.

4 A trend box is in green when the line is in yellow, and red when the line comes in blue. Those yellow and blue lines are defined by one of our in-house algorithms. How to use the Trend-Checker: If the primary trend (4 hours or 240 minutes) and the secondary trend (60 minutes) are in phase and opposite to the minor trend (30 minutes), it is recommended to start a trade in the direction of the first two trends when the minor 30 minute trend changes course and turns in the same direction as the major ones. In order to know when this occurs, we would suggest you to post an alert by clicking the 30 minutes trend box in the currency pair you are monitoring to eventually enter a trade, even more so if the FDbars mentioned further are in your way. Whereas if the 240 and 60 minutes boxes are not in the same color, it is NOT recommended to enter a trade, but rather to post an alert towards reaching a synchronous phase in order to eventually engage in a transaction you may want to double check by using the FDbars. It may also be a good idea to post an alert (4th line of the alert box via the Settings menu) towards having a synchronous strength or weakness of the currency, and you can be even more confident in the move most likely to be expected. Use Trend-Checker, and make it a habit to open it even before you access your account on your favorite broker's platform. Feel free to contact us in order to know our different algorithms and strategies in case you would consider having an account work on our customizable algorithms and strategies. Trend-Checker is neither a trading system of its own, nor an invitation to trade; but some 90 % of currency traders tend to lose money because of trend adverse risk taking that often leads to heavy losses. If it can help you reduce your risk, our primary goal will be largely satisfied. About the FDbars (11); how to use this unique feature: Let's move one step further, and see how to use the 3 FDbar charts. Click or unclick the «FDbar» button at the right end of the panel to open or close 3 FDbar charts related to the real time trend of each pair. Click the name of a currency panel to open the 3 real time charts. These charts are dedicated to the 3 pairs relating to the panel. In line with our philosophy that you should not fight the trend, those bar charts will be a precious ally for those of you who wish to trade on the Forex market. The FDbar charts have been designed after years of analyzing the behavior of liquid financial assets prices and the supply/demand psychology behind the thrusts and counterthrusts it produces. This displays in real time some bars that deliver a user-friendly proprietary algorithmic construction of the quotes data feed you can check by yourself on any brokers platform like TradeStation, MetaTrader or else. The bars reflect the thrusts and counterthrusts on the market and define the trend, countertrend moves and trend reversals. We are sure you will love them. See the difference? Here is a typical move of the British Pound versus Japanese Yen between Jan 23rd and Feb 8th As you can see, the raw unstable move that is so difficult to read at the bottom has been converted into our exclusive FDbar charts. See how they enable you to catch the up and down moves.

5 Here is how it works: You click on the «Res» or «Sup» (5a) to reveal the last valid resistance level with the idea to work on a downside move, or the actual support for an upside move. Here you would have clicked support only. The support line is where the green cursor is standing. Beware: the real time cursor in black always stands on its own, beyond the last FDbar which is only price defined and not timeframe dependent. Quotes a r e updated every seconds and intended to avoid any hasty counterproductive decision. Let s see the mechanic behind the resistance levels: Here are on the next graph the different resistance levels that would be presented to you as the graph unwinds. Let s start at red bar number 6, that is a first red bar after an up move. The following red bar 7 is below red bar 6. So red bar 6 high is now plotted as the resistance. The dotted line is so that you understand the resistance will in fact appear until the next bar is finished and the one afterwards is being started (since it needs to be closed to make sure it actually is red again and does not turn green ).

6 Then we move to red bar 10 which is below red bar 9. Therefore our resistance level now moves down to the high of red bar 9 (that is the high of a previous higher red bar) and so on until the high of red bar 16 as the lowest resistance on the move. resistance on the right side if you clicked on the resistance button. This example is to illustrate the way to read the market properly. In the actual charts you will only see the last Support levels work exactly the same, but the opposite way: When clicking on Sup, it will appear in green and sit at the low of the previous green bar that is lower than its follower. Here is a strong recommendation on how to use the FDbar charts: Always try to go with the trend as per the basic Trend-Checker. If the basic trend is down, you should rather pick resistance levels, and support levels if it is up. The principle is that you should not go long (buy) as long as the prices are below the resistance. Furthermore keep short (selling) as long as the trend goes with you. As you can see in a hefty down move, the resistance will also move down and have you exit the trade at lower and lower levels on the well-known basis : cut your losses and let the profits run. In an uptrend, you should not go short (sell) as long as the prices are above the support. Use the FDbar charts as you wish, but consider them a very helpful confirmation of what the Trend- Checker is telling you. Most of the time, they should point in the same direction. When all indicators point to one direction, just try and go with the trend. It is your friend.