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

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.…

Read More

The Free Top List of Stocks You Can’t Miss

It’s strange how life can work in cycles. Apparently it’s no different with software either. Last year at this very time, we introduced a free, End of Day custom scanning module for Netvibe users. Since we made the tool available, usage of the module hits new highs every month. Welcome the Trade-Ideas Top List We’re…

Read More

Weekend Reading: Trading Routines of a Skilled Market Veteran

A great read this weekend is the Charles Kirk interview in the recent issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities. Kirk is an excellent resource to tap as someone who describes what he’s doing in the market and how he trades opportunities without selling it like a stock picking newsletter. He is most famous…

Read More

Automation, OddsMaker, and Expectations: Lessons Learned so Far

We are not only software makers, we are our own Guinea pigs (kinda like those hairclub companies). Fully automated trading recently arrived to the suite of Trade-Ideas tools. We do this by first implementing a strategy created and backtested via The OddsMaker. Then we execute the strategy rolling forward via an API (Application Programming Interface)…

Read More

Using Scans to Test Market Activity

We still have Dan in Hawaii running a half marathon (we’ll need some proof!) and hanging out, but it’s been too long a break and the markets decided to do something this week. Let’s look at the market activity through a Trade-Ideas lens that features many of our free customizable scans and develop some different…

Read More

Know Your Enemy

“Know your enemy. You’re at war. They outgun you. In head-on combat, odds are against you. You must redefine the rules of engagement. Go into the shadows, yours. Never play by their rules, on their battlefield. Fight an asymmetrical war with the insurgent’s tactics. Play your game, by your rules. You must decide. Fight your…

Read More

Find and Adopt Dead Cat and Bow-wow Trading Patterns

If you’re not a regular reader of The Kirk Report, you’re missing market commentary from a trading veteran who’s concise and straightforward about market activity – he’s also got a fun streak of cynicism as it relates to the mainstream financial publications like Barrons et al. I got hooked on Kirk’s site by the lists…

Read More

Automation Does Not Equal Profitability – Pt. 2

Here’s the second part of a 2-part post on the questions we are answering about the upcoming option to automate the strategies developed in Trade-Ideas PRO and backtested with position management rules in The Odds Maker. Yesterday’s answers are here. Why this matters By sharing these questions and answers with you, dear reader, you are…

Read More

Automation Does Not Equal Profitability – Pt. 1

Automation of the Trade-Ideas set-ups and backtested position management rules within The Odds Maker is in beta now with our key partners. More details like screen shots and how it all works are coming. In a nutshell if you know how to use The Odds Maker, you will know how to use the automation tool…

Read More

4 Steps to Get the Jargon Out of Your Strategy

We were recently asked by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine (a review of our event-based backtesting tool The Odds Maker appears in the July 2007 issue) what’s the biggest stumbling block faced by new users when trying to work with The Odds Maker. We answer the question below. How Jargon Harms Learning The…

Read More