As will be readily perceived from this page, Dynamic Outcomes is a family business – a tightly-knit team committed to bring you powerful solutions with resulting benefits, based on perceptive views and conclusions, often achieved through exploiting the wider horizons opened up by innovative ideas and methods.

Its newly-established operation, Rand Forecasts, to which this website gives you easy access, is no exception to the above commitment. Our Home page gives a detailed recent history of "why we are where we are" in launching this somewhat unique service in this market.

Considerable confidence in the quality and reliability of our Rand Forecast service is engendered through the impressive track record detailed in our Home page, as well as through the accurate foresight of future trends highlighted in our "Rand Exposé - the Fundamental Truth" reports since first issue in July 2004. Nevertheless, a brief resumé of background and experience of Dynamic Outcomes team will, no doubt, help to strengthen that confidence.

In summary, we have 55 years combined experience and exposure to the foreign currency market. The author of this page, Alan, an accountant and auditor by training, has always had a keener interest in the dynamic areas of the financial arena, rather than in those inanimate numbers.

Foreign currency was no exception. I well remember being intrigued in my youth that an astute traveller could trip around ten or so countries of Europe and, through carefully planning the vacation route, could fund the entire cost by the currency gains achieved due to the disparate cross-rates (that existed in that period of foreign currency development).

I also well remember the first major devaluation – Sterling Pound – in April 1967, an event never heard of before in a fixed exchange rate regime. Little wonder that during my 8 years of employment with Ford Motor Co. in Port Elizabeth, I spent the last 3 years as Treasury Manager. My primary responsibilities were management of corporate cashflow, banking operations, and, of course, foreign currencies - with exposure to Rand, US Dollar, Pound, German Mark, French Franc, Belgian Franc, Canadian Dollar and Australian Dollar.

The experience was invaluable, especially being trained by and interacting with Ford's corporate personnel overseas well-versed in this field, and thereby being able to establish a rapport with the head traders of foreign currency operations at each of the four major banks in South Africa.

However, 3 years of that level of stress was more than enough.

Then, after some 15 years of financial management consulting, I again changed ships and decided that the time had come to look after my own business, rather than other peoples' businesses. So in 1993, our Tank Container Investment Management operation was launched, with the active involvement of James, David and Priscilla. Synergy of our range of abilities, training and experience was well-suited to the requirements of this complex operation – and guaranteed its success to date.

And, understandably, James and David have had 12 years of exposure to the currency market – in a big way, considering the waywardness of the Rand since 2001. Its unseasonable appreciation to levels stronger than trade-weighted value spurred us to undertake an in-depth study into the Rand.

During 2003 and 2004, James and I spent long hours researching wide range of economic data and Rand currency movements with a view to establishing the real value of the Rand in the market. The results of our research were set out in a summary entitled "Rand Report – July 2004". As you will see, when studying this Report, that we established sound grounds that the Rand was grossly overvalued at the time and would weaken to trade-weighted values, sooner rather than later.

This conclusion, which became a growing conviction, led us to dig deeper to attempt to perceive when that retracement would likely occur. And – lo and behold! – James unearthed Elliott Refined Trader – something vastly superior to the proverbial "crystal ball". James spent over 6 months learning to drive this sophisticated software program – first, by qualifying as a Certified Elliottician in February 2005 and then going on to complete the Advanced Course a few months later – a total of 90 modules.

And all this time, we thoroughly tested the software by producing daily forecasts and tracking their accuracy.

And, at the end of the anxious 12 month trial period . . . magnifique!

Believe me, this currency forecasting tool knocks any crystal ball out of the baseball park – it is for real! – it works! Forget about people telling you, "It's all imagination; hit and miss business; impossible to forecast!" We, as Archimedes did after jumping out of his bath, have been running about, shouting, "Eureka! We have found it, we've found it!" (the rest is covered in much more detail on our Home page).

Now, our experience and knowledge gained by long and varied exposure to the currency market – especially the Rand – is being made available to the wide spectrum of players, who have a Rand exposure, so that they too can reap the benefits for themselves.

And now YOU have also found it!

Welcome.

Alan Paynter
Managing Director