THOMPKINS FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICE |
ABOUT THE DEVELOPER |
Samuel (Sam) Thompkins is a retired Federal employee, who at the time of his retirement, held a critical senior management position as the Deputy Director of Human Resources for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and was responsible for the design, development and implementation of all administrative computer systems supporting human resources, payroll and accounting. The computer systems supported all of the 125,000 employees of the HHS. Sam held other positions with the Federal Government and received several awards for superior performance. One of the most memorable awards was a "Meritorious Executive Award" given by then President William Clinton for cost reduction which resulted in significat savings to the American Taxpayers. While working for the Federal Government, Sam became interested in the stock market and decided to take the plunge in the early 1970's. At the beginning of 1973 and extending through November 1974, Sam watched his investment lose 70% of its value. Sam emerged from this devastation with the knowledge that his current investment philosophy (taking the advice of so called market gurus and experts) was totally flawed and that if he was going to be successful, he had to develop another approach. Since Sam had been trained as a mathematician and was working as a computer scientist, Sam began to do research related to use of technical and quantitative approaches to market investing. This research resulted with the development and testing of hundreds of computerized investment models of which most were discarded because they did not result in a reasonable profit being made when exposed to back testing. However, a handful of the models showed promise and Sam has used these models as the basis for his current effort. In 1990, Sam migrated all of computerized models from mainframe computers to personal computers (PC's) because of the lower operating cost and the emergence of quantitative and technical investment tools that were being developed specially for the PC. Sam used these tools to expand the existing models to yield more profit with less risk. All computerized investment models developed by Sam answer three basic questions which are: When to get into the market and purchase a stocks or mutual funds? What stock or mutual fund to purchase following a buy signal? And When to get out the market and sell the stock or mutual fund? Sam most recent computerized investment model has a profit track record that is amongst the best in the industry and at the same time has kept the risk of losses to a minimum. Sam holds a BS degree in mathematics and a minor in physics from South Carolina State College and he was Cum Laude of his graduation class. |
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