Posts Tagged ‘alerts’
Walk, Chew Gum, and Trade Ideas: Introducing Mobile Trade-Ideas
Mobile Trade-Ideas is here. We first mentioned our work on Mobile Trade-Ideas back in June thinking this would be a good application for the 3G iPhone which just rolled out. Now we have Google/T-Mobile G1 so it’s time to make Mobile Trade-Ideas available. What makes Mobile Trade-Ideas appropriate for the smartphone set is something as universal…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas Releases Beta of v2.2 Without Stephen Colbert’s Endorsement
Stephen Colbert hawks his bestseller, I Am America (And So Can You!), with the pronouncement, “When you make the first one this good, you don’t have to write another one.” We agree. He’s talking about his book of course, but it’s just as easy to substitute with the phrase ‘decision-support trading tool‘, right? That’s…
Read MoreCustomers Talking, Trade-Ideas Listening: Upcoming Features
We are making continued additions and improvements to our service. In the spirit of the summer movies, below are the upcoming attractions to the Trade-Ideas PRO platform: Coming Very Soon: Wide Range Bar Wide range bar (WRB): The range of the bar is much greater than the average bar. This alert, recommended by one of…
Read MoreNew Alerts from Trade-Ideas Create Opportunity with NYSE Imbalances
Trade-Ideas expands the list of alerts with a unique NYSE-only alert related to buy and sell imbalances. What’s an imbalance and why is it only on the NYSE? The NYSE imbalance alerts only happen near the end of the trading day. These are based on the specialist’s market on close orders. If there are more…
Read MoreImprove Your Trading Plan with this One Visit
I am just back from a great conference in Phoenix sponsored by optionsXpress. I learned alot about Trade-Ideas while interacting with the audience and our Director of Education, Jamie Hodge. We added so many new filters and alerts to Trade-Ideas recently, I fell behind a bit on everything we can do. I also learned new…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Best Ways to Find the Tipping Points
New alerts and filters added recently expand the arsenal of ways in which any trading universe can be modeled in Trade-Ideas. We even created some sample strategies to show you how they are used. Here’s what we did: Added bottoming tail and topping tail alerts. Added new filters to find stocks based on how much…
Read MoreTrade More Profitably: 9 Effective (and Slightly Badass) Ways to Just Do It
Whoa! We’re alive! It seems the booze and turkey from Thanksgiving knocked the lights out on the blog for a bit. We’re back and in a market that still acts like the other shoe is going to fall. In fact with a Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times survey now saying Americans are expecting a recession within a…
Read MoreWhat Your Broker Doesn’t Know, Will Reassure You
More than a Chinese Wall, Your Trading Secrets are SafeEmails and message board posts mentioned recently a fear that when it comes to automating a trader’s trading strategies, their broker can either: See your strategies Trade against them Front run them or some combination thereof In terms of the Trade-Ideas Automated Trading Bot (ATB) we…
Read MoreAutomation Does Not Equal Profitability – Pt. 2
Here’s the second part of a 2-part post on the questions we are answering about the upcoming option to automate the strategies developed in Trade-Ideas PRO and backtested with position management rules in The Odds Maker. Yesterday’s answers are here. Why this matters By sharing these questions and answers with you, dear reader, you are…
Read More4 Steps to Get the Jargon Out of Your Strategy
We were recently asked by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine (a review of our event-based backtesting tool The Odds Maker appears in the July 2007 issue) what’s the biggest stumbling block faced by new users when trying to work with The Odds Maker. We answer the question below. How Jargon Harms Learning The…
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