Auto-Trading Doesn’t Listen When You Whine

The best athletes use coaches who don’t give up when their performer wants to quit. They carve out the negativity and bad habits of the athlete and leave nothing but the will and the means to win. As our coach, the Auto Trading Bot, makes us a better trader. The latest videos from Monday, December…

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Directions to Automated Trading Success Same as Those to Carnegie Hall

Heard this one? [Tourist and New Yorker approach each other at the street corner] Tourist: “What’s the best way to get to Carnegie Hall?“ New Yorker: “Practice! Practice! Practice!“ The videos of Trade-Ideas’ automation on our YouTube Channel offer views of our practice sessions in the market using real capital and real market situations.  Viewers…

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How to Trade Without a Market Bias: Lesson from a Green P&L

The latest videos from Thursday, December 4th and Friday, December 5th are posted on the Trade-Ideas YouTube Channel.  Each day took a different path on its way to a profitable P&L.  Our approach with the automation is to use 3 Long strategies and 3 Short strategies (not necessarily the flip of the other).  These strategies…

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Trade-Ideas Automation: Great Entries that Smoke the Hottest of Hot Keys

Automated trading results are in for Wednesday, December 3. Wednesday, December 3rd Trade-Ideas Automated Trading Bot executing trades through TD AMERITRADE Brokerage (QuoteTracker version) Lot size: 100 share lots per trade, $5 commission/1-way ($10 total/trade) Trading rule: Hold positions for 15 minutes after entry trading only the 1st 5 minutes of the open Results: Gross Profit…

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You Haven’t Witnessed Trading Like This Before

Your trading day done in 15 minutes – 15 minutes after the open.  Mining profits from an area few individual traders trading manually could ever hope to achieve. Automated trading results are in for Monday and Tuesday of this week. Monday, December 1st Trade-Ideas Automated Trading Bot executing trades through Assent Brokerage Lot size: 100…

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Automated Trading Video for Friday Nov. 28 Released

Last week Trade-Ideas’ released the first attempts of live automated trading on video.  I also mentioned that more were coming to the Trade-Ideas Channel on YouTube. Take a look at the latest video dated from Friday, November 28, 2008.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE1z05tcl50 A couple of things to note: The video is much shorter – we’re getting the…

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Results of Automated Trading: Trade-Ideas Turducken Mash-Up

Trade-Ideas’ Automated Trading Bot ran off 3 profitable days of trading this week.  That’s notable because: this is the first week we’ve been trading automated strategies designed for this market’s volatile action – and not on a testing basis we’re relearning our own tool – gaining insight on how to trade profitably given any commission…

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Trade-Ideas in Your Town: Vegas 2008

We are headed to Las Vegas this week and weekend for the Traders Expo. Here are the details: Las Vegas, NV: The Traders Expo, Mandalay Bay Resort, November 19-22, 2008 Are you planning to attend? Here’s a snapshot of some last minute fares to Las Vegas. There’s another good travel site to consider called FareCast. They are…

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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…

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Put A Go-Getter and A Cleaner on Your Payroll

As helpful a suite of tools like Trade-Ideas is to have on the payroll; generating ideas based on pattern recognition, backtesting those ideas based on the recent market activity, and in some cases automating the next trade, there’s another important ‘player’ to employ on your staff: the cleaner or bookkeeper. StockTickr is an online portfolio…

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