The Socrates premium analysis does go long or short hypothetically a number of positions based on the election of reversals from the daily to the monthly time level which I believe is the same as the chart you posted for example the Dow premium analysis monthly commentary says "we are currently hypothetically long 4 positions at this particular moment on the monthly level"
Armstrong mentioned that phase II of Socrates will add a backtesting feature to see what Socrates wrote on any given day.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/products_services/socrates/progress-report-on-socrates-deployment/
I think at this time we just don't have access to the chart which would be very helpful but there is still many other features that need to be added to the pro service
Gumbi, this is the issue I have with what you are saying. If you are really using this system to trade you need to know exactly when you are in/out of a position even if you are occasionally wrong (it is quite possible to be wrong over 50% of the time and still have a winning strategy). All successful trading systems I'm aware of have very strict rules for exactly this reason and they must be followed at all times for it to work. As a trader I don't want to read some verbose consulting report every day which may say "we are currently hypothetically long 4 positions at this particular moment on the monthly level". Trading takes hard work and hours during each day are very limited so why would some $100 million system waste our time like that? Typing in questions and speaking to it like Siri/Alexa is a novelty that visual folks used to reading charts won't care about one iota. You are given tons of technical BS with Socrates but the issue is you are still being left to decipher it (I have yet to see anyone do this successfully on a consistent basis). If the system is that good then have it (computer is the expert, right?) interpret the info for us and display it in a table or chart. That way there's no room for error and everyone wins. I really don't see why this is even remotely hard to do even with my relatively low computer programming skills. You'd think that would be priority #1 when designing a system for financial folks to use.