I find it annoying when about pages are written in the 3rd person like  “Rick Katz was a high school drop who became a zillionaire”.  We ALL know you wrote this  yourself so why pretend? You’re not the founder of Nvidia or something.

Anyway, this is me, Rick, writing a bit about me so  you’ll know me a little better if you’re considering working with me.

MY TRADING OBSESSION

My obsession with trading and investing started when I  was a little kid. I used to look at the stock quotes in my parents’ newspaper and was fascinated. What is this? It looks so important but it’s just a huge page full of numbers.

When I  got older I started learning more about it and the  more I  learned the more intrigued I became. Deep inside I knew this was a game I wanted to play. The turning point was about 30 years ago when I got a job at Investors  Business Daily Newspaper. I was finally in my element.

Back then, 30 years ago, it was not easy to get investment info online. The Internet was just really starting and everyone was still on dialup. I was earning over 1K per week selling subscriptions to investors and traders and teaching them how to pick winning  stocks using the CANSLIM investing methodology.

Meanwhile, since stock charts were not readily available online yet we had books filled with stock charts going back decades. I had heard that there may be a connection with the seasons and the price movement of stocks and commodities. So I studied thousands of charts in IBD’s stock chart books.

FOUR MONTHS UP  –  I DISCOVER A BRAND NEW CHART PATTERN

I didn’t find any correlation between seasons and prices. However I did discover a chart pattern that no one had ever noticed before. It was such a powerful pattern I decided to put together a manual with tons of examples and so forth and began selling it along with a newsletter alerting subscribers to upcoming opportunities based on this pattern.

I called it 4 Months Up. What I found was that almost every big winning stock early on it’s life had 4 months in a row that each of the four ended slightly  higher than the prior month. This set the stage for a major run up shortly after this pattern emerged. You could see it very clearly on a monthly chart. Investors who used my system (including some fund managers) made a ton of money with it.

When the dot.com bubble burst and the market crashed the pattern became very scarce and I moved on to other things. The pattern still works though. 

CRYPTO.  OH THANK HEAVEN FOR CRYPTO

Late in 2016 I was  looking for an online payment processor that wouldn’t be strict on programs such as multi-tier affiliate programs which I had created a few of. I had heard about bitcoin so I looked to see if that would work.

And similar to when I was looking at chart books to find seasonal patterns and made a new stock chart discovery; my looking for a payment processor led to something much, much bigger: The ICO market!

And my new business was created, researching new ICO’s and alerting subscribers to hot new crypto coins and tokens (see testimonials below).

Later, more recently I  began creating and building crypto apps (DAPPS) – SEE TASRA Development

PRECISION SCALP TRADING

Over the past couple years I have become fascinated with meme coin trading. I have created multiple strategies for trading them. They have all worked to an extent but very recently I hit upon an ADVANTAGE, due to a recent change in how new tokens are launched on the Solana blockchain. Just as some casino gamblers have made fortunes by finding one small advantage (like a blackjack dealer who may habitually, accidentally reveal their hole card);  I’m using this advantage to rapidly screen and then jump in potential winning trades faster.  I have a very strict screening process and then only put on a scalp trade if it also meets certain other parameters.  This system is generating very fast (usually within seconds) returns of anywhere from 3% to 50% per trade consistently.