Scanning Stocks with Breaking News? A Broken Idea

The world has changed for those trading on news and even stock scanning services that incorporate breaking news into their offerings. News just broke. The recent injunction by a judge against news headline distributor, flyonthewall.com, ordered it to delay disseminating the stock recommendations of financial services firms long enough so that the firms can alert…

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Format and Themes for Upcoming StockTwits Episodes & Videos

[Queue the Rocky theme song] We’re getting in fight shape as we practice several pilot episodes for our eventual debut on StockTwits.tv. Believe me – we need the practice. But in the end it will benefit you, dear reader & viewer. Here’s our current format for a 15 minute show. When we start taking tweets,…

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Signposts: A Method of Market Forecasting Which Strategies to Employ

3 Roadsigns popped up today from 3 different people whose opinion and calls on the market activity I respect. These people aren’t market timers – if anything they’re probably early with their calls, but when I hear or read people I respect offering these types of market forecasts, I pay attention and start to pull…

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Make the Market Work for You

Counter Trend Trading: Inviting Your Ego to Trade Today while trading and discussing trading on Stocktwits, I came across a very interesting article written by Dr. Brett Steenbarger. This article discusses the compulsion some traders have to counter trend trade. Traders who counter trend trade are sometimes called contrarians. The reason I wanted to blog…

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Steenbarger Inspired Strategy: Trade the Transitions

Great strategies align themselves with vetted and observable themes in the market. Strategy comes from taking a stand based on what you perceive are demonstrative behaviors in the recent market and then submitting that position to the market’s cross examination – you’ll come out smelling like a rose or its fertilizer. The nice thing with…

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In Response to Trusting Market Moves: Why Relative Volume is Important

Let’s start with my comment first and then the excellent post this AM from the ever astute and keenly insightful Dr. Brett Steenbarger: Glad to read your emphasis on the importance of ‘Relative Volume’ in determining how trustworthy market moves really are. It’s the bedrock of much of our analysis at Trade-Ideas as you know.…

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A 1-hr Visit Can Improve Your Trading Plan

The good folks at DTI and Tom Busby invite Trade-Ideas to present during their very popular Live TradeRoom sessions tomorrow, Tuesday, August 4 beginning at 9:15 AM EDT. Here is the agenda for tomorrow. Note: I will be speaking at 12:00PM EDT. 9:30am – 12:00pm EDT “Live Trading and Education: Futures First: Using the Indexes…

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200 Day SMA Good Support for a Swing Trade: August TAS&C Traders’ Tips

Traders’ Tips August Issue “It’s not being wrong that kills you, it’s staying wrong that kills you.” Jeff Macke, Trader For this month’s Traders’ Tips, we offer a stock trading strategy based, in part, on the position of a stock near its 200 day Moving Average. Specifically this strategy discovers that in today’s market the…

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