Archive for October 2009
Format and Themes for Upcoming StockTwits Episodes & Videos
[Queue the Rocky theme song] We’re getting in fight shape as we practice several pilot episodes for our eventual debut on StockTwits.tv. Believe me – we need the practice. But in the end it will benefit you, dear reader & viewer. Here’s our current format for a 15 minute show. When we start taking tweets,…
Read MoreSignposts: A Method of Market Forecasting Which Strategies to Employ
3 Roadsigns popped up today from 3 different people whose opinion and calls on the market activity I respect. These people aren’t market timers – if anything they’re probably early with their calls, but when I hear or read people I respect offering these types of market forecasts, I pay attention and start to pull…
Read MoreNew Version of Trade-Ideas iPhone Application is Now Available through iTunes
iTunes has just released the latest version of our iPhone application. This version fixed several of the previous bugs our users reported. We would really appreciate if our users who also had iPhones downloaded and rated the free application. We want to add more functionality to this iPhone application. One thought is giving users the…
Read MoreLike Gump But Without The Smarts: More SOES Stories & Trading Lessons
I have the unfortunate luck of having been in some of the best, upwardly mobile stocks of all time, and not taking advantage of it. There – I said it. Like Forest Gump – wherever I live, the craziest bullish stock of all time happens in the same place. Case 1: DELL This stock was…
Read MoreThe Market Sneezes, but Trade Ideas Never Catches a Cold: Data Variances
Editor’s Note: The following post is from our Chief Technical Officer, Philip Smolen. In it he points to a rather frequent occurrence of the data inconsistencies that plague the tape and which, if left unchecked or not addressed, can seriously affect real-time sensitive tools like Trade Ideas. Fortunately for us and for those of you…
Read MoreMake the Market Work for You
Counter Trend Trading: Inviting Your Ego to Trade Today while trading and discussing trading on Stocktwits, I came across a very interesting article written by Dr. Brett Steenbarger. This article discusses the compulsion some traders have to counter trend trade. Traders who counter trend trade are sometimes called contrarians. The reason I wanted to blog…
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