Strategy Session: Automation for Swing Trades

By Rodrigo | May 7, 2008

The fast paced world of trading excites us – buyers vs. sellers, large capitalized players vs smaller and quicker/nimble players, etc. However we at Trade-Ideas recognize that for many in the investing public, trading twenty or thirty times a day is a lot – completely alien. That’s why our tools are also made for longer-term…

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Answers from the Many Questions DTI Traders Asked

By Rodrigo | March 19, 2008

Yesterday I participated in a great day of trader education organized by Tom Busby and the folks at DTI and sponsored by optionsXpress. My presentation discussed the best way to develop a theme about the market and test whether and how much profits can be made using our backtesting tool, The OddsMaker. It was a…

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Improve Your Trading Plan with this One Visit

By Rodrigo | March 17, 2008

I am just back from a great conference in Phoenix sponsored by optionsXpress. I learned alot about Trade-Ideas while interacting with the audience and our Director of Education, Jamie Hodge. We added so many new filters and alerts to Trade-Ideas recently, I fell behind a bit on everything we can do. I also learned new…

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Trade-Ideas in Your Town: Off to Phoenix

By Rodrigo | March 14, 2008

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the Trade-Ideas ‘krewe’ will be headed to Phoenix for an Expo sponsored entirely by optionsXpress (details). I am an advocate of these types of get togethers between companies and customers because of several benefits each party receives. How Attendees Benefit Attendees get a chance for a deeper dive…

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Option Traders Will Love These New Filters in Trade-Ideas

By Rodrigo | February 11, 2008

Trade-Ideas expands the list of ways to describe an option trader’s universe with 6 new filters. These filters are in their final testing phase and will soon go live. When they do subscribers will simply see them appear in the list under the Filters tab in Trade-Ideas PRO. And you thought you had to download…

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Trade-Ideas in Your Town: What Smaller Events Can Teach You

By Rodrigo | February 7, 2008

You have 2 opportunities (one in San Diego and the other in Phoenix) to get some great education and learn not only about how to use Trade-Ideas more effectively with your trading plan, but you’ll also have the opportunity to see how our latest tool, the Automated Trading Bot, automates a trading plan with OptionsXpress.…

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OptionsXpress Robot Upgrade!

By Rodrigo | October 15, 2007

Save Layouts We have made some improvements to the OptionsXpress Robot software. The new version 0.9.2 cleans up bugs found from users’ feedback. Additionally this version offers the option of saving your robot windows as a layout. For those that already have the software you will be prompted to upgrade, for those that have not…

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OptionsXpress Pilot Underway!

By Rodrigo | October 8, 2007

The OptionsXpress Automated Trading Pilot program is now officially underway. It is very easy to get started. You just need an account with OptionsXpress and a subscription to Trade-Ideas.Click (Here) to download the latest version of the OptionsXpress Robot. Please make sure that your OptionsXpress account is permissioned for XML API trading, otherwise you will…

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14 Questions and 1 Invite for Automated Trading

By Rodrigo | August 1, 2007

More on the Automated Trading Pilot with OptionsXpressTrade-Ideas and OptionsXpress now offer fully automated equities trading to OptionsXpress customers. This offering is part of a pilot program that features the availability of a suite of tools at no cost to participants for the 3-month pilot. Please note: a subscription to Trade-Ideas PRO paid by participants…

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