Archive for July 2006
Preview of Trade-Ideas Pro v2.0
A colleague’s wise words recently described our efforts this summer: “Most highly successful people across a variety of fields—from arts to athletics and science—succeed by maximizing their strengths, not by focusing efforts on their weaknesses.” The ability to translate trader preferences into features is a major strength of Trade-Ideas. Our small firm is built to…
Read MoreIs Your Trading in Tune with this Market? It Will Be
There’s a great installment of StockTickr’s ‘One Question Interview’ series. Dave poses the following question to each interviewee: What trading lesson(s) have you learned from the downtrend that started in May? Dr. Brett Steenbarger, of TraderFeed, provides a cogent, informed answer. What caught my attention was his last statement: “The lesson since May is that…
Read MoreTrading Tools to Get a Boost
That’s the headline in the Personal Journal section of the Wall Street Journal today. The article is only a handful of paragraphs in length and it quickly surveys the landscape of sophisticated trading tools now offered investors. Mentioned in the article is E*Trade and their new “conditional order” capabilites that automatically execute trades if certain…
Read MoreStock Sellers May Be Overreacting
The Wall Street Journal suggests today there may be some overracting to the latest increase in Middle East tension. The article, “Keeping Cool Amid Global Strife” in the Money & Investing section, quotes an old British maxim from a banker during the Napoleanic Wars: Buy to the sound of cannons, sell to the sound of…
Read MoreBe audaciously selective
There’s an interesting discussion on the use of real-time scanners that got my attention. The post appears on Uglychart‘s blog (a good, well written blog with an entertaining edge to it). The post and several comments stress the usefulness of real-time scanners for generating ideas but offer the caveat that it’s the number of ideas…
Read MoreTickerSense BS Poll Results
TickerSense debuted a interesting sentiment indicator called the Blogger Sentiment Poll (could they be serious about keeping the name as the ‘BS’ Poll?) which seeks to take the pulse of the blogosphere’s growing independent market analysis. They do this by polling a select group of Who’s Who among analysts on the overal health of the…
Read MoreIt Takes a Village to Convince a Committee
You got to admire the lengths that this customer will go to have his Trade-Ideas subscription paid for. —–Original Message—–From: Nimic [mailto:n*****@*****.info]Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 9:30 PMTo: info@trade-ideas.comSubject: Ameritrade hello – are there any plans to partner with Ameritrade so that their customers get free Trade-Ideas Pro access? I contacted Ameritrade and suggested it…
Read MoreOpening Range Breakouts
The Kirk Report today provided some insight regarding what he looks at throughout the day; namely, stocks that are trading above the first hour. Kirk then provides a list of stocks currently meeting that threshold. At Trade-Ideas subscribers look for the same event using the Opening Range Breakout alerts and can choose among several timeframes:…
Read MoreTop 10 Stocks: 50 Day MA to Cross 200 Day MA
This list shows which stocks are most likely to have their 50 day SMA cross above or below their 200 day SMA in the next trading session. This is an important trading signal for institutional traders. When the 50 day SMA crossed below the 200 day SMA, it is called a “death cross.” When the…
Read MoreHoly Grail of Trading Explained: StockTickr Interview
Our own Dan Mirkin, Senior Managing Partner at Trade Ideas LLC, appears in a recent interview on the StockTickr blog. It’s got alot of nuggets on how Dan trades and some history of why Trade-Ideas was created. A popular feature of StockTickr is the Interview Series which contains insights from traders in various stages of…
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