Archive for December 2008
Recap of Last 4 Articles Appearing in Tech. Analysis of Stocks & Commodities
The latest issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities arrived the other day. Trade-Ideas contributes an article to their widely read section, “Traders’ Tips“, which showcases a particluar article that month and allows various vendors to be inspired how they might model such a strategy in their application. One of the reasons I like…
Read MoreAuto-Trading Doesn’t Listen When You Whine
The best athletes use coaches who don’t give up when their performer wants to quit. They carve out the negativity and bad habits of the athlete and leave nothing but the will and the means to win. As our coach, the Auto Trading Bot, makes us a better trader. The latest videos from Monday, December…
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 MoreWho Needs Bad News with Good News Like This
Our Director of Trader Education, Jamie Hodge, guest blogs today with something from the, “Ever-Optimist” file: I couldn’t resist compiling the headlines (in proper order) from Google Business today: They are as follows as of 2:42pm PST. EA Reduces forcast on holiday sales Sony will cut 8000 jobs as recession( hey, i guess we’re in…
Read MoreHow to Trade Without a Market Bias: Lesson from a Green P&L
The latest videos from Thursday, December 4th and Friday, December 5th are posted on the Trade-Ideas YouTube Channel. Each day took a different path on its way to a profitable P&L. Our approach with the automation is to use 3 Long strategies and 3 Short strategies (not necessarily the flip of the other). These strategies…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas Automation: Great Entries that Smoke the Hottest of Hot Keys
Automated trading results are in for Wednesday, December 3. Wednesday, December 3rd Trade-Ideas Automated Trading Bot executing trades through TD AMERITRADE Brokerage (QuoteTracker version) Lot size: 100 share lots per trade, $5 commission/1-way ($10 total/trade) Trading rule: Hold positions for 15 minutes after entry trading only the 1st 5 minutes of the open Results: Gross Profit…
Read MoreYou Haven’t Witnessed Trading Like This Before
Your trading day done in 15 minutes – 15 minutes after the open. Mining profits from an area few individual traders trading manually could ever hope to achieve. Automated trading results are in for Monday and Tuesday of this week. Monday, December 1st Trade-Ideas Automated Trading Bot executing trades through Assent Brokerage Lot size: 100…
Read MoreAutomated Trading Video for Friday Nov. 28 Released
Last week Trade-Ideas’ released the first attempts of live automated trading on video. I also mentioned that more were coming to the Trade-Ideas Channel on YouTube. Take a look at the latest video dated from Friday, November 28, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE1z05tcl50 A couple of things to note: The video is much shorter – we’re getting the…
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