Today I’d like to introduce you to a man that has developed and perfected a system that he says can lead investors to profits no matter what the market is doing.

#-ad_banner-#With markets at new highs and worries of a correction becoming more prevalent, I can’t think of a better time to be talking about his simple, tested strategy.

Meet Dr. Thomas Carr.

I recently sat down with Dr. Carr for an interview in StreetAuthority Insider, a free newsletter for all active StreetAuthority premium subscribers. Today, I’d like to share it with you.

These questions and answers are meant to give you a better sense of his system and why we think it’s one of the most potentially lucrative strategies we’ve come across in a long time.

In short, Dr. Carr has come across what he thinks might be the “holy grail” of trading systems. By the time you finish reading this interview, we think you’ll agree.

Briggs: Before we get to the details of your strategy, tell us a little about yourself.

Carr: I began trading stocks on a professional level almost two decades ago during my time at the University of Oxford in England, where I also earned my master’s degree and doctorate.

I’ve published three books on the subject of trading, and for the past few years, I’ve been managing money for private clients as well as training new traders.

B: How did your experience lead to this “holy grail” discovery you’ve been talking about?

C: I’ll freely admit… I’m kind of a geek.

For most of my life, I’ve had my face in a book, journal, magazine or newspaper — or my eyes on a computer screen — conducting research.

And for more than 15 years now, I’ve been on a quest to discover what I call “the holy grail of investing.”

You see, every hedge fund manager, mutual fund manager, financial advisor and individual investor has the same two goals when it comes to investing money: increasing returns and lowering risk.

Unfortunately, it’s rare to attain both objectives at the same time. That’s because most trading and investing strategies specialize in one or the other — returns or safety.

They encourage you to invest in bonds or in stocks… “safe” large-cap stocks or more volatile small-cap stocks… value stocks or growth stocks — among others.

The question for most investors becomes: “Should I take on more risk for the possibility of getting higher returns, or should I give up some of those returns to feel safer?”

And in trying to diversify their portfolios, most investors accept a certain amount of loss in the hopes of getting some gains.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

In my Trader’s Edge system, I’ve developed a paired set of scans, one long and one short, which are built around both technical and fundamental themes. I buy the top three companies showing fundamental momentum and strong — but not overly strong — price momentum, and I sell short fundamentally problematic companies showing overly strong price momentum.

B: Going both long and short sounds intriguing. Have you backtested this system?

C: The historical returns for each of the long and short portfolios is off-the-charts phenomenal.

Since I started tracking the performance of Trader’s Edge in July 2014, the system has delivered a return of 25.3%, crushing the 0.8% gain in the S&P 500 during the same period.

And that’s no fluke: In a back-test over the past decade — through both bull markets and bear markets — the same system delivered average annual returns of an incredible 59% through the ten-year period ended December 26, 2014, compared with the S&P’s 7.5%.

B: How are such returns possible through good times and bad?

C: Trader’s Edge takes a “market-neutral” approach to the stock market. This means two things:

1) I seek to neutralize potential risks in my positions by scanning for stocks that satisfy both fundamental and technical requirements.

2) I neutralize the risk of being on the wrong side of the market by going both long and short at the same time. In this way, I never again have to worry about whether I am on the “right” side of the market. Whether the markets go up or down, I am in a position to profit.

When you do this by trading a capital-weighted pair of three long and three short positions, well, it’s hard to imagine getting any better return from any other kind of approach. Nothing I’ve ever traded comes anywhere near the performance of the market-neutral system.

B: Thanks for your time. We’ll leave it at that for now, but I’m sure we’ll be talking about your system more in the future.

As we’ve mentioned several times in these pages, we think it’s possible that a market correction could happen soon — perhaps this year. If the market does crash in 2015, Dr. Carr’s Trader’s Edge system could save your portfolio. We’ve prepared a special research alert detailing exactly how Tom’s system completely side-stepped the “Great Recession” and delivered consistent gains — and why we think it could happen again. Click here to get the full story.