ACS Asset Revesting Signals
ACS – Make More From the Market. Give Less Back When It Turns.
The Adaptive Compounding Strategy (ACS) publishes Asset Revesting signals: a rules-based, tactical ETF strategy that owns assets showing strength, rotates out of weakness, and moves to cash when conditions don’t justify exposure. The goal is simple: participate in strong trends while keeping large drawdowns from setting your plans back by years.
Chris Vermeulen
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
“We follow price.
We don’t pretend to predict it.”
945.44%
Hypothetical cumulative model return since 2008
13.46%
Hypothetical annualized model return
−5.96%
Maximum historical model decline (drawdown)
5–12
Portfolio allocation changes per year (ETF trades)
Historical hypothetical model results are not a guarantee of future performance. The factsheet states returns exclude brokerage costs, the subscription fee, and taxes. Subscriber results will differ.
One Tactical Asset Allocation ETF Model. Fewer Decisions.
ACS gives you one focused ETF strategy with a published plan for when to own rising sectors, when to rotate into defensive assets, and when cash is the better position.
Annual membership. Educational, impersonal research for self-directed investors. Risk of loss remains.
You Know How to Make Money. Can You Stop Giving It Back?
You can read a chart. You can spot a sector with momentum. You have probably had trades that made you feel completely in control.
Then the market changes.
The breakout fails. The winner you sold keeps running. The loser you gave “a little more room” keeps falling. Cash starts to feel like falling behind. One bad day gives back a good week. One bad week wipes out a good month.
The harder part of trading is rarely finding opportunities. The harder part is protecting the gain after your emotions become attached to the outcome.
Do any of these sound familiar?
I entered late because I could not stand missing the move.
I sold the winner too early, then gave the loser more room.
I made good money for weeks and gave too much back in one emotional trade.
I told myself, “I just need one good trade to get it back.”
I know cash is a position, but being flat still makes me feel left behind.
I keep adding indicators, opinions, and screens because the decision still does not feel settled.
None of that means you are careless. It means the market has found the exact places where intelligence, ambition, pride, fear, and responsibility turn into pressure.
The question is not whether you are capable of trading. The question is whether your serious money should continue to do the same emotional job as your speculative money.
At $500,000, a 1% decision is $5,000.
A 20% setback is $100,000. One emotional decision can cost more than an entire year of research, guidance, and structure. Serious capital needs a serious standard.
The Goal Is Not More Trades.
It Is More Money Kept.
Action feels productive because it gives uncertainty somewhere to go. Buy something. Sell something. Hedge something. Check again. Do whatever it takes to make the discomfort stop.
That relief can feel like control. It is not always control.
The strongest traders are not the people who trade the most. They are the people who can wait until the odds improve, act when conditions justify it, and step away when they do not.
ACS was not built to keep you busy. It was built to keep your serious capital aligned with a published process instead of a changing mood. You do not have to stop loving markets. You do not have to stop trading a separate account. You do have to decide what your retirement money, family money, and long-term capital are allowed to endure.
Anyone Can Look Smart in a Smooth Bull Market. What Happens When the Old Playbook Breaks?
Performance belongs on this page because proof matters. But the most useful proof is not one exciting trade. It is how a process behaves across very different market conditions.
The three comparisons below use one simple starting number: $500,000. They show what the published ACS hypothetical model and the S&P 500 price index would have looked like through a major crash, a full boom-bust cycle, and the 2022 bear market. Dividends are excluded on both sides, so the comparison matches the return treatment stated in the ACS factsheet.
What Are Asset Revesting Signals?
Asset Revesting signals are buy, sell, and hold-cash alerts generated by the Adaptive Compounding Strategy (ACS), a tactical asset allocation ETF model published by The Technical Traders. Each signal answers one question: Does this asset still deserve my capital? The model rotates between a focused list of liquid U.S. ETFs (index, sector, Treasury, currency and inverse funds) based on price trend, volume and market participation, typically making 5–12 changes a year.
2008 financial crisis
ACS hypothetical model ended at $599,900
| Starting amount | $500,000 |
| S&P 500 price index (−38.49%) | $307,550 |
| ACS hypothetical model (+19.98%) | $599,900 |
Difference on $500K+$292,350
2020–2022 full cycle
ACS hypothetical model ended at $941,750
| Starting amount | $500,000 |
| S&P 500 price index (+18.84%) | $594,200 |
| ACS hypothetical model (+88.35%) | $941,750 |
Difference on $500K+$347,550
2022 bear market
ACS hypothetical model ended at $527,450
| Starting amount | $500,000 |
| S&P 500 price index (−19.44%) | $402,800 |
| ACS hypothetical model (+5.49%) | $527,450 |
Difference on $500K+$124,650
The illustration assumes $500,000 at the start of each period, with no withdrawals, taxes, fees, or additional contributions. S&P 500 figures use calendar-year price-index returns, excluding dividends, so dividend treatment aligns with the July 2026 ACS factsheet statement that its published hypothetical model returns exclude dividend income. ACS figures also exclude brokerage costs, the subscription fee, and taxes. The 2020–2022 results compound the three calendar years. These are historical illustrations, not forecasts or typical subscriber results.
2008: When “Stay the Course” Became a Very Expensive Sentence
The S&P 500 price index lost 38.49% in 2008. On $500,000, that is a $192,450 calendar-year loss before the recovery even begins.
The published ACS hypothetical model shows a 19.98% gain for the same calendar year, taking the illustration to $599,900. That does not prove the model will profit in the next crisis. It shows the process was not built on the assumption that stocks must keep rising.
2020–2022: One Full Cycle, Not One Lucky Trade
The S&P 500 fell about 34% in barely a month during the 2020 COVID shock, recovered, surged in 2021, then fell again in 2022. That three-year stretch tested fear, FOMO, re-entry, patience, and the belief that every decline should simply be held.
Over the full 2020–2022 cycle, $500,000 compounded to about $594,200 using the S&P 500 price index. The published ACS model compounded to about $941,750. The difference was not created by trading every day. It came from a process designed to follow strength, use defensive assets or cash when appropriate, and keep losses from becoming the main event.
2022: The Year the Balanced Portfolio Stopped Feeling Balanced
Stocks fell. Bonds fell. Many investors discovered that owning both did not automatically mean being protected.
The S&P 500 price index lost 19.44%. Stocks and bonds both fell, and the published 60/40 comparison line declined as well. In simple $500,000 terms, the S&P 500 price index illustration ended at about $402,800, while the published ACS hypothetical model ended at $527,450. ACS gained 5.49% and, according to the factsheet chart, finished the year at a new model high-water mark.
That year is important because it reveals the mechanism. ACS did not require the familiar stock-and-bond mix to work. It had permission to own other strengths, use inverse ETFs when conditions justified them, or wait in cash.
The graph represents the cumulative performance of a hypothetical $10,000 investment. Performance is compounded. Returns do not reflect dividend income, the payment of any brokerage commissions, brokerage costs incurred as a result of buying or selling shares, or the subscription fee, and do not reflect the deduction of taxes.
Which Would You Rather Recover From?
The number most investors ignore is not the best year. It is the largest historical decline. A large loss does more than reduce the account. It changes the return needed to recover, the decisions you make under pressure, and how much of your life has to wait for the math to work itself out.
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Factsheet comparison |
Maximum historical decline |
Dollar decline on $500K |
Balance after decline |
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ACS Model Portfolio |
−5.96% |
−$29,800 |
$470,200 |
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Buy & Hold 60/40 benchmark |
−38.52% |
−$192,600 |
$307,400 |
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SPDR S&P 500 ETF benchmark |
−53.42% |
−$267,100 |
$232,900 |
Illustration only. Source: July 2026 ACS factsheet. The comparison lines reached their maximum declines at different times. The ACS historical maximum decline is not a future loss limit; future losses can be larger.
A Recovery Is Not Free
A $500,000 account that falls 53.42% needs a gain of roughly 115% just to get back to where it started. The market may eventually recover. Your time, confidence, retirement date, and family plans keep moving while you wait.
Reading this and thinking, “What’s the catch”? Good.
ACS is not market timing, and it will not dodge every decline. Signals can lag, reversals can be violent, and future losses can exceed the historical model figure. The process responds to weakness with a published rule rather than a mood, so one mistake is less likely to become a multi-year recovery project.
A Major Market Loss Is Not Just a Number on a Statement.
It Eventually Shows Up Somewhere in Your Life.
A major market decline does not have to wipe you out to change what happens next. For a serious investor, the damage often shows up in quieter ways.
The Real Risk Is Not Going Broke.
It’s Being Forced to Live Differently Because Too Much of It Disappeared at the Wrong Time.
Your Portfolio Can Recover.
Your Lost Years Cannot.
An account needs more time to recover before you feel secure again.
That is not just a money problem. It is a time problem.
Travel. Homes. Hobbies. Experiences.
The first thing a major loss often steals is freedom.
Smaller gifts, less support for the people who matter most.
Repair the portfolio first.
While you wait, that money is not moving your life forward.
It is simply trying to get back to where it already was.
Eight Expensive Investment Lies Smart People Repeat.
These beliefs became popular because each contains a piece of truth. Patience matters. Diversification has value. Dividends are useful. Staying informed is responsible. The problem begins when a useful idea becomes permanent permission for weak assets, large losses, and emotional decisions.
“Stay invested. Time will fix it.”
Time is the bill. A 30%–50% loss can take years to repair.
“More holdings mean more protection.”
A full portfolio can still fall like one oversized trade.
“The dividend pays me to wait.”
A 4% yield does not protect against a 30% price loss.
“My average return says retirement will be fine.”
The wrong loss at the wrong time can change withdrawals, plans, and lifestyle.
“More trading gives me more control.”
More decisions create more chances for fear, FOMO, boredom, and revenge to take over.
“If I follow the news closely, I will know what to do.”
News creates urgency. It does not create a repeatable decision rule.
“This asset made me money before. It will come back.”
The asset does not know you love it.
“I will make the right decision when the crash arrives.”
Pressure narrows thinking. The plan must exist before the loss.
The Old World Measures Losses in Percentages. Asset Revesting Measures Them in Years.
Years to recover. Years without new progress. Years of postponed travel, reduced family help, smaller withdrawals, more account checking, and less confidence.
Why Active Traders Give Back Gains, Why Passive Investors Give Back Years, and Why Serious Money Needs a Different Standard.
Buy-and-hold asks you to endure every decline. Active trading asks you to keep predicting the next move. Asset Revesting asks a different question:
Does This Asset Still Deserve My Capital?
That question replaces loyalty, habit, prediction, and the need to be right with a simple standard of responsibility.
Buy & Hold Strategy
Endure every decline
Active Trading Model
Predict every turn
Asset Revesting Approach
Respond to the evidence
Own strength. Step aside from weakness. Wait with purpose.
ACS is an ETF rotation strategy built on a short, liquid list of U.S. ETFs: broad index, sector, Treasury, currency and inverse funds. It doesn’t try to call tops or bottoms. Asset Revesting signals follow price trend, volume and participation across asset classes, so the model moves toward what is strong and away from what is weakening. For members, that means an ETF trend-following newsletter with a clear action attached to every update, rather than more market commentary.
“We follow price. We do not pretend to predict it.”
A different way to invest: not passive surrender, not constant prediction — participation with conditions. Historical results do not guarantee future results. Risk of loss remains.
You Should Not Have to Rebuild Your Investing Plan Every Morning
Most self-directed investors do not need more information. They need fewer decisions, made from a better process. ACS gives you a published model to follow. You can see what the model owns, why the position is being held, where risk is being managed, and what changes when conditions change.
No Technical-Analysis Experience Is Required
You do not need to build the charts or produce the signals yourself. You do need to understand the service, decide whether it fits, and remain responsible for your account, execution, taxes, and personal financial decisions.
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What you receive |
What it does for you |
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The ACS model portfolio |
The current published ETF position, so you’re following one model rather than choosing from hundreds of ideas. |
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Clear trade plan |
Entry guidance, targets, protective levels, and updates when the model changes. |
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Monday and Wednesday reports |
A steady rhythm of written and video research without constant market noise. |
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Email, app, and member-area alerts |
You do not have to live in front of a trading screen. |
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Typically, 5–12 model changes a year |
Fewer, more meaningful decisions instead of activity for activity’s sake. |
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Report and video archive |
See how the process handled prior conditions and review the lessons again. |
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Member support |
Get help with access, materials, and understanding how the service is presented. |
Hands-Off Does Not Have to Mean Helpless
TTT does not take custody of your money, act as your personal advisor, or make discretionary decisions for you. AutoShares is a third-party execution convenience; eligibility, supported securities, trade mechanics, transaction charges, platform costs, and other terms must be reviewed before use. AutoShares access is included with ACS at no additional TTT fee. Third-party costs can still apply.
The Market Taught Me That Being Right Is Not the Same as Being Protected.
Early in my trading life, I believed opportunity was the main event. I thought enough effort, speed, and skill could force the market to produce the results I wanted.
The market rewarded me before it educated me.
I blew up trading accounts. I lived through bankruptcy. I learned that a good idea can still become a terrible investment when the trend, position size, exit plan, or emotional pressure is wrong.
I also learned that the two familiar choices were incomplete. Constant trading could turn money into a second job. Blind buy-and-hold could turn a major decline into years of waiting.
The behavior that eventually became Asset Revesting was slower and more deliberate. When price and money flow confirmed strength, I wanted to participate. When conditions weakened, I did not want to keep owning an asset simply because tradition said I should. I could move to another asset showing strength or wait in cash until the evidence improved.
The name came after the behavior. In 2022, stocks and bonds fell together, and the old language felt especially incomplete. Investors were told to diversify, rebalance, and keep holding. I believed they needed a better question: Does this asset still deserve my capital?
That is the principle behind ACS. Not “I always know what comes next.” The market taught me. Then I changed my definition of responsibility.
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Guide signal |
What it means |
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Market experience |
More than 25 years of studying, trading, and publishing market research. |
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Investor education |
More than 25,000 investors and traders helped since 2001. |
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TTT’s role |
Independent publisher of impersonal research, model signals, and education — not a personalized advisor or account manager. |
What Changes When You Stop Trading Every Feeling.
Here’s what members say…
One Strategy. Two Practical Bonuses. One Clear Price.
ACS Core Features
A 12-month ETF newsletter subscription: the ACS model portfolio, trade alerts, and twice-weekly written and video research.
AutoShares Access Included
Supported AutoShares execution access for eligible accounts.
Two live sessions monthly
Two live group mentoring and market-education sessions each month.
$2,999 USD
for 12 months — about $8.22 a day
No Bonus Pile. No Trading Course. Just the Strategy, the Execution Option, Support, and peace of mind.
The offer is intentionally simple. You are not joining ACS to collect a library of things you may never use. You are joining to follow one protection-first ETF process through a full year of market conditions.
You Are Not Buying More Alerts
You are buying a standard you do not have to reinvent every time the market becomes emotional.
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Included |
What you receive |
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ACS Core Membership |
12 months of the focused ETF model, portfolio page, trade alerts, Monday and Wednesday written/video research, member dashboard, archive, and support. |
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Bonus 1: AutoShares Access |
Supported third-party execution access for eligible accounts at no additional TTT fee. Broker, platform, transaction, and other third-party costs may apply. |
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Bonus 2: Two Live Group Sessions Each Month |
Two group mentoring and market education sessions each month, with recordings available when available. These are not personalized advice or hot-tip sessions. |
Here Is the Deal: ACS Membership Details
$2,999
Annual membership
$249.92
Monthly equivalent
$8.22
Daily equivalent
ACS is billed annually. Monthly, weekly, and daily figures are arithmetic equivalents, not alternate payment plans.
The useful comparison is not only a coffee and a snack. At $500,000, a 1% account move equals $5,000. An illustrative 1% annual advisory fee also equals $5,000. ACS costs $2,999 for the year.
That does not mean ACS will prevent a 1% loss, replace the broader services of a qualified advisor, or pay for itself. It shows the scale of the decisions being made. A single avoidable mistake on serious money costs more than the membership.
Protect the Capital That Took You Decades to Build
Follow one published Asset Revesting process for a full year of market conditions.
ACS Is Built for Serious Investors. It Will Frustrate People Who Need Constant Action.
Boring is not a weakness when serious money is involved. Boring is what control can feel like when you are no longer asking the market to entertain you.
ACS is a strong fit when you…
Want a rules-based core for serious stock- and ETF-market capital.
Care about growth and avoiding the large setbacks that steal years.
Prefer fewer, higher-conviction model changes over daily activity.
Can accept cash as a responsible position when conditions are weak.
Want to follow manually or use an eligible supported execution pathway.
Understand that every strategy has losses, lag, and periods of underperformance.
ACS is the wrong fit when you…
Need a new trade every day or week to stay interested.
Want personalized investment, tax, or retirement-plan advice from TTT.
Expect every signal to win or every year to beat the S&P 500.
Will override entries and exits whenever your opinion changes.
Need a guarantee, a future loss limit, or certainty about the next crash.
Are unwilling to give the process enough time to experience different conditions.
ACS Is a Commitment, Not a Trial.
ACS annual memberships are non-refundable. This also applies to renewals once they have been processed.
Reason #1: Membership delivers immediate value and access.
Once you join, you receive the ACS research, member archive, model information, alerts, live group sessions, and access to the member experience. That information and access cannot be returned after it has been delivered.
Reason #2: We want members who are prepared to follow a process.
If you need a short trial, guaranteed result, or safety net before committing, ACS is probably not the right fit. That is perfectly okay. We would rather you recognize that before joining.
Reason #3: One market cycle tells you more than one trade.
You are joining ACS to follow a disciplined Asset Revesting process through changing market conditions—not to judge it by the next signal, week, or month.
Reason #4: The strategy needs time.
ACS is not built around constant trades or instant gratification. Some of the most important decisions are the trades we do not take and the periods we patiently wait for conditions to improve.
You Can Cancel Your Renewal Anytime.
Canceling stops your next renewal. It does not refund your current membership term. We send a renewal reminder to the email address listed in your TTT account approximately 45 days before your renewal date. You can manage your renewal through your account or contact Support@TheTechnicalTraders.com for help. If ACS stops being valuable to you, cancel the renewal. You will continue to have access through the end of the membership term you already purchased. I do not want you joining because you feel pressured. I want you to join because you understand the process, accept that investing takes patience, and believe this is the standard you want governing your serious capital. If that sounds like you, you are ready.Questions Serious Investors Ask
Before the Next Market Turn, Decide What Your Serious Money Is For.
You already know the market will turn again. You do not know the date. Neither do I.
But when it happens, your account will not need another confident opinion. It will need a standard. Your capital represents years of work, missed vacations, business risk, saving, discipline, and choices you did not spend. It was built to protect retirement, family, freedom, and the life ahead.
It should not remain committed to weakness simply because the old playbook says waiting is responsible. ACS will not make the market predictable. It will not remove every loss. It will not make every decision correct. It gives you a published process for deciding when exposure has earned its place, when it has not, and when waiting is the stronger action.
Own strength. Step aside from weakness. Wait with purpose.
The market can give you more opportunities. It cannot give you more years.
Educational, impersonal research. No guarantee of returns, protection, or future loss levels. Investing involves risk, including loss of principal.
P.S. — You Do Not Have to Stop Trading. You Do Have to Decide What Your Serious Money Is For.
Keep the curiosity. Keep learning. Keep a separate account for discretionary ideas if that fits your situation. But stop asking retirement capital to satisfy the daily urge for action. The line between trading money and life money should be clear before the market makes the distinction for you.
P.P.S. — The Next Crash Will Not Ask Whether You Are Ready.
The useful time to build a process is before the headlines become urgent, before the account is down, and before hope starts calling itself patience. How many irreplaceable years are you willing to sacrifice waiting to get back to even?