Posts Tagged ‘Steenbarger’
Trade-Ideas: Why Won’t You Make Me Rich?
We receive on a regular basis from individuals the comments, demands, requests, supplications, and sometimes the pleas for the keys to making them great wealth. A recent message seemed breathless in its desire, “Basically What i need is a collaboration…and a system trading platform based on historical data……What time to trade….how many….what amount per trade…and…
Read MoreDirections to Automated Trading Success Same as Those to Carnegie Hall
Heard this one? [Tourist and New Yorker approach each other at the street corner] Tourist: “What’s the best way to get to Carnegie Hall?“ New Yorker: “Practice! Practice! Practice!“ The videos of Trade-Ideas’ automation on our YouTube Channel offer views of our practice sessions in the market using real capital and real market situations. Viewers…
Read MoreYour Brain’s the Grail. How to Make It Holy
Ok. Let’s do something really crazy. I’ve something big to confess. I’ve been hiding it for months because I don’t want the headlines, I don’t want our servers to crash, I don’t even want the private island and the jet to take me there. But now, I can’t hold it in any longer, so here…
Read MoreWeekend Reading: Follow the BRICs
Thanks to Dr. Brett for bringing attention to this article on the BRIC nations: Global Investing, BRIC by BRIC I am reminding readers of a post we made about the BRIC nations that features primary sources developed by Goldman Sachs. You Don’t Have to See the Future, to Know We’ll Be Watching These Markets One…
Read MoreThe Zig-Zag Method for Trading Profitably and Maintaining an Edge Forever
I’ve never seen such an avalanche of ad campaigning for a single week of TV programming: it’s Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. If you’ve been to New York anytime over the last 4 weeks, you’ve been flooded with all forms of print ads everywhere. It’s so saturated that all the shows that tape in…
Read MoreChecking In with The Doctor: Memorial Wknd Reading
There’s a couple of good articles over at TraderFeed, Dr. Bret Steenbarger’s widely read and essential blog for the self-improving trader. Both articles compliment each other: one post discusses a checklist of elements to consider when making a transition from one trading style to another (make sure to read the helpful reader comments too). The…
Read MoreThe Key to Finding a Winning Strategy in Any Market
Are you tired of being spoon-feed trades without knowing how to come up with the ideas on your own? Many traders fall into the trap of being fed the fish but never really knowing how to go about fishing on their own. This post and next week’s aim to fix that. The Words that Would…
Read MoreAnswers from the Many Questions DTI Traders Asked
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…
Read MoreRoundUp of the Best Headlines – 2007
It’s been a year of tremendous growth and innovation at Trade-Ideas. You can see what’s been added in a snapshot timeline by following this What’s New link – you may have missed something that could help your trading even more! Thanks to our dear readers our blog gets more visits each week (even if we’ve…
Read MorePoker Odds and Professional Trading
There is no doubt in my mind that the skills to succeed in poker are the same skills to succeed in trading. Unfortunately most people approach trading differently and in a way that opens them up to losses and eventual failure. Is your hand worth playing? In poker understanding the odds of your hand determines…
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