Archive for November 2012
Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon & Patterns
You know when you stumble upon some obscure piece of information (like you learn a new word) and then afterwards you encounter it over and over? Apparently there’s a name for these seemingly amazing coincidences: The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. It turns out our brains are hardwired for pattern recognition. In fact, we often place too much…
Read MoreThe Grammar of Trade Ideas Filters & Alerts
I was talking with a GUI consultant recently. We typically do not use GUI consultants, however, she sparked an interesting discussion about the use of “Grammar” for our icons. She had brought up a great point. Though it may be a bit redundant on our Alert & Filter definition page, we did agree that…
Read MoreNew Data – More Data – Better Data
Slicing Fundamental Data with a Quant Knife Our development pipeline is an open book found on the “What’s New” page of our site. We recently added a new complement of fundamental filters that add balance and flexibility in designing trade set-ups. Our What’s New page displays the new fundamental filters What type of data yields…
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