About Us

Aloha From Hawaii...., Please allow me to introduce myself  and share with you a little background about how Blue Wave Trading came to exist, and why many of our clients and peers have said that we are, "one of the most innovative technical analysis and trading systems developers in the industry today. My Name is Randy M. Sarrow, and I am the Developer, Programmer, Professional Trader and Owner of Blue Wave Trading Research and Development (www.bluewavetrading.com)  and the creator of the BWT Precision Indicators and BWT Precision Auto Trade System.

In 1980 I began my career as a financial planning professional specializing in tax sheltered investments. After building a thriving financial planning practice over the following 17 years, which during this time I was self employed as a Financial Advisor and held several Securities license including series 6 and  26 supervising a group of brokers.

I started trading in 1997, when I took what was probably one of the first day trading "Webinars" as they are known today with an instant messaging program called ICQ. (if you have used the internet a long time you will know what this is).  I thought that with my market experience trading would be "easy" .... needless to say, my arrogance was quickly humbled and I took some substantial losses. However, this only strengthened my resolve to learn how this trading "game" is played.  

My first software purchase was Tradestation,  right after is was re-invented from a program called System Writer . From day one I "tinkered" with programming in Easy Language until I became quite proficient at it, and by fall 1998 I registered as a Registered Investment Advisor, and managed a small portfolio of 7.5 million for my clients. I employed Mutual Fund Market Timing from simple trading models mostly based on moving averages that I had developed. In the bull market of the 90's these worked well.

At the end of 1999 , I placed 6th in a trading competition among 2000 competitors made up of my Investment Advisor peers, which earned a cash prize and bragging rights. In early 2000, I moved to Maui, HI, and realized my lifelong goal to live in Hawaii. I retired from my 20 year career as a Financial Advisor, to focus on trading and developing automated systems full time. The last trade I made for my clients was to position them in cash in late March of 2000 which was the beginning of a 3 year bear market that saw the NASDAQ decline 70% from its high near 6000......

After a few years of intense research of testing literally a thousand different trading rules and optimizing various strategies crunching numbers on four computers running 24/7, I came up with a trading system based on floor trader pivots support and resistance zones and the probabilities of the market opening and closing within those levels or "Zones". The system was called surprisingly, the BWT Zones SP.....

I was traded my Zones system full time for two years when in 2003 my broker noticed how well my account was growing and asked how I was achieving this....When I told him it was my own automated strategy, he asked if I would make it available to other traders, and that there was opportunity there. The following year the BWT Zones Trading System ranked as high as 3rd in the Top Ten SP Trading Systems in Futures Truth Magazine, and was the #1 performer at Attain Capital mgt. (a broker and CTA that focuses on Systems Trading) . At the time BWT was the subject of numerous articles pertaining to system performance  and Statistics .

Fast forward to today in an unregulated  market where probably 80% or more of retailers of trading products are less than a few years old, if that...Blue Wave Trading is going strong into it's 9th year with industry awards in the trading system category from Stocks and Commodities Magazine in each of the last 3 years. 

Since our inception,  Blue Wave Trading has been an innovator in programming technical indicators and systems development,  - the 2005-6 debut of BWT Precision Auto Trader and BWT Precision Indicators and our visual style of development have become industry standard ....

Trade Well,

Randy M Sarrow