Archive for June 2009
Trailing Resistance & Support Stops: TAS&C July Traders’ Tips
Traders’ Tips July Issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities “Eventually, luck runs out; skill does not.” Scalper68 (AlexD) In this month’s Traders’ Tips, Sylvain Vervoort offers a 3rd trailing stop method, called a trailing resistance & support stop, which evaluates price movements or ‘turning points’. This 3rd trailing stop method most closely resembles…
Read MoreShow Your Colors, Take Some Credit
With the recent website redesign comes a roll of new banners that hopefully convey the value we bring to the trade decision process. If you agree and one of these banners resonates with you, feel free to place them on your blog or social media outlet. They come in several shapes and forms. Anyone who…
Read MoreData Traders Who Swing: Rejoice With Longer Term Filters
Trade Ideas Releases Start of New Filters Aimed at Longer Term Patterns & Trades We added several new filters aimed at longer term data traders. As of today you can now: Filter stocks based on the size of a multi-day range (5, 10, 20 day range) Filter the stock’s position in that multi-day range (5,…
Read MoreMailbag: Bot Trading Manages Risk at the Open
The Open and its frenzied activity can reward as well as punish traders. The difference between these two groups comes down to experience certainly, but also the insight and quick decisions that new tools (especially automation) can bring to bear. From the Mailbag (Support Forum) came a question about such topics that I want to…
Read MoreAutomated Trade Ideas in Your Hand: You Set Our Course
Trade-Ideas on your smartphone: iPhone or Palm Pre or Blackberry Who wants to trade on such a confined space? On the go . . . making so many decisions with so many distractions? Trading actively and manually doesn’t seem to make much sense. But supervising fully automated trades with automated risk management controls (what we…
Read MoreThis Strategy’s Winners Are 5x Greater Than Its Losers – Explanation:
I gave a solid presentation to traders online in a DTI chat room this afternoon. DTI offers educational services across all instruments but specialize in equities, commodities, and futures. They are lead by the talented Tom Busby and Jeanette Sims. The format I used involved soliciting requests for favorite chart patterns ahead of my talk…
Read MoreVWAP Mashup of the Daily Trading Coach and Trade-Ideas
A Strategy-Session post. The Daily Trading Coach Dr. Brett Steenbarger is a trader’s coach. As essential as his experience getting the best performance out of traders is the way in which he conveys his wisdom in plain language – judge for yourself in his latest (his third) book on improving trader performance and decision making, The…
Read MoreNew Website, Same Old Approach
Our website changed today – the result of some new branding for our advanced trading tools and a better way of communicating the value we bring to the trading process. https://trade-ideas.54solutions.com But with all that’s changed in our message and our look, somethings remain very much the same. It’s great to read this from a…
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