Posts Tagged ‘automated trading’
New Version Getting warmer
As many of you already know we are working on a completely new version of Trade Ideas Pro. What did we do differently this time? Ok the first thing is this, we took the evolution approach versus the revolution. It means that at first glance you should not find the new version too different. The…
Read MoreSee an Example of Robust Automation From Benchmarq Trading Partners Using Trade-Ideas
Join us for a Webinar on July 14 at 12pm EDT featuring: Nick Nazarov, Managing Member, Benchmarq Trading Partners Do you have a viable trading strategy but lack programming skills?Want to trade multiple systems simultaneously but lack the manpower and discipline to execute them efficiently?Learn the answers and much more in this unique presentation from…
Read MoreStock Scanner Adventures in Technical Analysis, or How to Compute the ADX
When people watch our real-time stock scanner, they sometimes say that our formulas don’t look exactly like what their trading or charting software says it should look like. We try to minimize this, but there’s only so much we can do. When doing millions of real-time computations a second, there’s bound to be something that…
Read MoreTrade Ideas Stock Scanner Guilty of Performance Enhancing
Oh boy, we knew this was going to come out sooner or later. It is now impossible to hide that using the Trade Ideas stock scanner is the equivalent of using performance enhancing drugs. For over a year we have been working on some magic on our “back end” technology. The massive server farm that…
Read MoreA Thousand Paper Cuts
Winning is not easy. It is not easy in professional sports and it certainly is not easy as a professional or active trader. When you hear people telling you that they have no losing trades this year, you should be careful. In trading winning is process of managing losses. When we use our software to…
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 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…
Read MoreTrade Ideas on Your Kindle
Trade-Ideas Mobile works on the Kindle. Add a bookmark for http://mobile.trade-ideas.com. Make sure to turn on “Advanced Mode” in your Kindle browser to get the formatting right. Of course, we’re always pushing the limits. You can get streaming stock alerts on the Kindle. But Trade-Ideas works best if you request historical stock data for your…
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…
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