Archive for March 2009
My Respectful Disagreement About Your P/L
Andy Swan is a trader, a friend, and a funny guy. He’s proven himself in the market and in business as one of the sharpest tools in the toolbox. And I respectfully disagree with him on this point he made today: “The best way to take emotion out of trading is to stop caring…
Read MoreZag vs Zig on Relative Strength & This Stock Pattern Strategy Will Reward You
Below is the original Trader’s Tips article submitted for the just released April issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities TRADERS’ TIPS April Issue “Your emotions are often a reverse indicator of what you ought to be doing.” John F. Hindelong For this month’s Traders’ Tips, we offer a stock trading strategy based, in…
Read MoreWe Found Your Trade-Ideas T-Shirt. Let Us Know Where to Send It.
Yes, you lost your old one, right? Maybe it was too many uses as the car wash rag – hey, a thousand uses is fine with us. Since we launched Trade-Ideas way back in January of 2003, every subscriber receives a free T-Shirt. Was your shirt lost in the mail? The wrong size?…
Read MoreNo Bonus AIG. Come and Sue Us for It
The outrage ongoing on about the AIG’s contractual bonus payments to its executives made its rounds on the Sunday morning news programs and is the subject of many twitter chatter. Here’s a typical representative comment: where would the bonus monies come from (obligated by contract) if $AIG had met its maker like it would have…
Read MoreHelp Us Choose the New Makeover Design for Trade-Ideas.com
Some exciting changes are coming to Trade-Ideas – specifically this blog and our entire site. It’s a makeover that promises to: Easily allow people to navigate to information they need on the site Explain what we do with more clarity to new visitors I’ve already shown the set of 4 makeover designs from which we…
Read MoreGet Experimental. Trade-Ideas Releases Beta of its Latest Version
“It’s the book to end all books. Until I write another one” – Stephen Colbert on the publication of his book , I Am America, And So Can You. We’d say it alternatively, “It’s the upgrade to end all upgrades. Until we release another one“. Exactly. Announcing v2.3.5 in beta release. Here is the link to…
Read MoreFollowing This Bear Swing Set-Up Netted a 84% Win Rate
Improved OddsMaker Models Swing Trades Noticed anything? We changed The OddsMaker by expanding the range of the backtest and introducing longer hold times with which to model trading rules. The details of the enhancements are in the User’s Guide. This post demonstrates via an example strategy how the changes improve the universe of possible trading…
Read MoreScans that Feed the Bulls & Bears on FOX Biz
This post is for @TALENTED BLONDE who posted on Twitter this morning, http://twitter.com/TALENTEDBLONDE/status/1300271000 I decided to feed her a possible storyline for this afternoon, developed by interacting with the StockTwits crowd the last couple of days. It goes like this version of a Harper’s Index: (Data as of 1:50pm EST, Mar. 9, 2009) Number of…
Read MoreFollow This to Find the Bounces in the Market Ahead of Everyone Else
Across the Twitter comes all sorts of traders trying to guess where this beast is going. Of course the goods ones just size up the chart and let it tell them what’s going on – using their risk management skills to live and see another day. QuantBot @day54 oh, now crammer is calling bottoms since hes…
Read MoreHow Twitter Put 2 Partners Together: The Sum Greater Than Its Parts
Thanks to Finz.tv for the chance to talk about Trade-Ideas.com in a recent interview. It all started with Twitter. Twitter is an amazing tool. I hear it explained in many different ways. The most popular description – the one cited by its founders as a way to describe what you are doing in less than…
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