Archive for February 2006
Proof: Truer Words Were Never … Pt.3
As part of an occasional series of great approaches to trading, written by fellow traders/bloggers, here is a series we call “Truer Words”. Part 1 is posted here.Part 2 is posted here. The articles discuss topics of trading which include: emotional intelligence, trading journals (especially, but not limited to, the ones that document benefits of…
Read MoreNew Alert: Out-Hedge the Specialist
We are pushing hard to release functionality to make our software stand apart from others in the Idea Generation Technology (IGT) and Algorithmic Monitoring (AM) space. The recently concluded meetings this week with clients in NY and customers at the Traders Expo generated plenty of new ideas. One of them we just released is called,…
Read MoreNew Alert: Unusual Number of Prints
(Employee walks by a ‘Suggestions’ box, followed by a ‘Second Thoughts’ box.)We’ve said it before: when subscribers talk, we listen and produce. Yesterday marked the release of another new alert to the Trade-Ideas inventory of technical indicators. The new addition is the result of our subscribers’ feedback. The new alert, in fact, came to us…
Read MoreStrategy Session: The News Watcher
UPDATE: In addition to the strategy set-up below, you can see another version based on this strategy, “Breaking News“, in the “Samples” section of Trade-Ideas PRO (right click in a window to see this option) or visit it online under our “Browser Quick Start” section: https://trade-ideas.54solutions.com/GettingStarted.html In recent discussions with Evolution Trading (now known as…
Read MoreRecap of the Traders Expo, New York City
Here are some insights from the recently concluded Traders Expo in New York City (Times Square) which took place February 18th through the 21st. Sunday’s panel discussion, “Software Round-Up“, promoted itself as follows: Getting the right data at the right time so that you can make intelligent and profitable trading decisions is critically important to…
Read MoreService Difficulties and Update
Early this morning (overnight) data delivered from the exchanges contained significant errors that affect our service today, February 14, 2006. The service works in most aspects EXCEPT for the Minimum Current Volume Filter (Relative Volume) and volume based filters. For today only these filters will not work as a result of what’s happened. As a…
Read MoreInvitation: The 1st Annual Trade-Ideas Learning Curve Seminar
UPDATE 6.19: Read our recap of the LCS – a great event! We’ll be doing it again!UPDATE 5.19: Additional speaker added, Julia Bussie, CMTUPDATE 3.28: New banners to announce the seminarUPDATE 3.14: 2 additional payment options added (Paypal, 2CO)UPDATE 2.13: Expanded DAY TWO Program Trade-Ideas is excited to announce the 1st Annual Trade-Ideas Learning Curve…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Oversold, Phoenix
“When a stock’s price gets higher than 1 standard deviation above its 50-day moving average, we consider it overbought. Stocks lower than 1 standard deviation below its 50-day are considered oversold.” This is how Birinyi Associates, Inc. defines Overbought and Oversold in a recent article on its blog, TickerSense. Along with this description and this…
Read MoreTruer Words Were Never … Pt.2
As part of an occasional series of great approaches to trading, written by fellow traders/bloggers, here is a series we call “Truer Words”. Part 1 is posted here. The articles in this series discuss the fundamentals of trading which include emotional intelligence, trading journals, size management, P/L performance, and many other dimensions – not just…
Read MoreStrategy Session: I saw it on the Discovery Channel
It does not hurt to learn from a few million years of evolution by watching some successful hunters at their craft. Take the leopard as an example, a classic ambush predator. A leopard will wait in a tree for the antelope to walk by and then just pounce on it unleashing the surprise attack. This…
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