Ward Systems Group was established in 1988. Their advanced neural network and genetic algorithm software has given thousands of customers a competitive edge in solving prediction, classification, modeling, estimation and optimization problems. The company developed NeuroShell Trader, algorithmic trading software, which has won first place for artificial intelligence software for the past 16 years in the competition sponsored by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine. Another program called ChaosHunter can produce readable formulas to model numeric data. ChaosHunter is capable to producing buy/sell signals, predict future values in a time series, classify data into different categories, or discover a formula from data.