{"id":1239,"date":"2026-05-20T00:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgassoc.com\/SGA2014\/?page_id=1239"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:05:34","slug":"benefitall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sgassoc.com\/SGA2014\/programs-projects\/benefitall","title":{"rendered":"BenefitAll"},"content":{"rendered":"

BenefitAll is a program of SG & Associates started in 2007!\u00a0 \u00a0 Simply, it serves as a conduit between vetted charities and the community, businesses and individuals.\u00a0 On inception it was designed as a key factor in Phase 1 of the Traders’ Life Cycle for the non-profit, Colleagues in Trading… to give traders something ‘bigger’ than themselves to ‘work for’ and help them hold commitments to their selected trading strategies.\u00a0 Due to market collapse, those efforts collapsed in the 2008 time-frame.\u00a0 \u00a0 Its evolution, as the intended, dedicated receiver of a major portion of profit from the artist, Ehsan’s, found it expanding into its current role:\u00a0 identifying, obtaining and distributing needed resources, from throughout the community,\u00a0 to vetted charities.\u00a0 \u00a0See more on BenefitAll.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SG & Associates ventured into the online trading arena in 2005 with its non-profit, 501c3, Colleagues in Trading,\u00a0 (CIT)<\/strong><\/em> in Southern California.\u00a0 \u00a0Specifically founded to help aspiring and active traders avoid the typical pitfalls in trading AND prevent them from unsustainable losses, CIT became the only ‘brick and mortar’ trading support facility in the country.\u00a0 CIT was equipped with all reputable trading platforms, donated and executing on donated computers, and nearly 400 donated trading books, by the industry’s best.\u00a0 CIT became the ‘darling’ of the industry for real, honest, reliable, trustworthy support and information for those interested in trading in the financial markets.\u00a0 \u00a0 CIT was NOT a training facility… quite the opposite..\u00a0 \u00a0It was a support organization aimed to help avoid trading pitfalls, including even opening accounts!!\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Critical to the success of the organization was the outstanding support for strategy ‘verification \/ debunking’ provided by Rollin Girulat.\u00a0 His TRAids, TC-Companion backtesting program, based on Telechart 2000, was an industry favorite to readily detect likely successful, versus unsuccessful strategies.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Together, with a myriad of the highest caliber brokerages, speakers and traders, CIT mada great impact and inroads to better ‘awareness’ and knowledge of aspiring traders.\u00a0 Unfortunately, with the downfall of the markets in 2008… CIT closed it doors in 2010 as it was unable to discourage trading in dangerously volatile markets.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the background of SG & Associates, CIT developed a\u00a0 “Traders’ Life Cycle”\u00a0 (TLC<\/strong><\/em>) of 7 phases; dedicated to helping aspiring traders walk through ‘check points’ to determine their viability, suitability and best options for potential trading activities… whether or not they ever traded.\u00a0 \u00a0(For example, one might ‘opt out’ at Phase 4, and focus on different strategies and their applicability; research, write, teach, develop, etc.\u00a0 )\u00a0 In 2007, just prior to market collapse, a Seminar was held in Tempe, AZ, based on the CIT-TLC, featuring the best (vetted) traders and support persons in the industry.\u00a0 It was received with great fanfare; attendees were introduced to ‘real’ insights to the industry to help them make better decisions about if, when and ‘how’ to trade.\u00a0 \u00a0 in 2010, TLC’s future looked promising as a start-up for several investors.\u00a0 Their financial objectives, however, did not align with the ‘protective’ objectives of the framework.\u00a0 \u00a0Again, given market instability, CIT’s TLC was sidelined.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(For details on, or to pursue, TLC revival, email.<\/a> )<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BenefitAll is a program of SG & Associates started in 2007!\u00a0 \u00a0 Simply, it serves as a conduit between vetted charities and the community, businesses and individuals.\u00a0 On inception it was designed as a key factor in Phase 1 of the Traders’ Life Cycle for the non-profit, Colleagues in Trading… to give traders something ‘bigger’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1239","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgassoc.com\/SGA2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgassoc.com\/SGA2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgassoc.com\/SGA2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgassoc.com\/SGA2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgassoc.com\/SGA2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgassoc.com\/SGA2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgassoc.com\/SGA2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1239\/revisions\/1240"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgassoc.com\/SGA2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgassoc.com\/SGA2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}