Posts Tagged ‘automated trading’
Trade-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 MoreTrade-Ideas ‘Fundamentally’ Changed: Why It’ll Never Be the Same
Change is good. Especially the incremental improvement change work we do to Trade-Ideas on a constant basis. For those of you who are new and see the large inventory of alerts and filters – sorry. The list is long but well organized and only meant to appeal to the wide variety of traders and trading…
Read MoreThe Zig-Zag Method for Trading Profitably and Maintaining an Edge Forever
I’ve never seen such an avalanche of ad campaigning for a single week of TV programming: it’s Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. If you’ve been to New York anytime over the last 4 weeks, you’ve been flooded with all forms of print ads everywhere. It’s so saturated that all the shows that tape in…
Read MoreMarkets Don’t Fit Your Trading Style? Engage with Better Odds of Winning
Our audience for the blog consists mainly of potential customers, returning customers, and existing subscribers. Really informed traders come here for market insight and working strategies that we model in a category of posts called, Strategy Sessions. A lot of product information and other nuggets appear here on the blog first. Occasionally however we actually…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas Going Mobile?
It seems that since the introduction of the iPhone SDK, many innovative companies are racing to develop tools for the next iPhone in 3G coming out next month. E*TRADE also just released mobile trading capabilities exclusively for the Blackberry. Combine these events with Trade-Ideas’ new trading automation (with selected brokers), and we may be heralding…
Read MoreOne Trader’s Transition to Automated Trading: Insights for You
Dave Mabe is a trader first and entrepreneur addicted to trading second – my kind of fellow. Following his slow transformation from entirely discretionary trading to one that relies increasingly on automated trading fascinates anyone reading his posts on the subject. He describes a path whose benefits include, among others, less time behind the computer,…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Automation for Swing Trades
The fast paced world of trading excites us – buyers vs. sellers, large capitalized players vs smaller and quicker/nimble players, etc. However we at Trade-Ideas recognize that for many in the investing public, trading twenty or thirty times a day is a lot – completely alien. That’s why our tools are also made for longer-term…
Read MoreStockTickr Interview Reveals How We Use Automated Trading
I’m sliding under the table to you some excerpts from a recent interview that our Director of Trader Education, Jamie Hodge, gave to our good friend Dave Mabe of StockTickr. You’ll understand after reading the entire interview how to win against today’s market that’s eliminated many of the information advantages traders used to have and…
Read MoreThe Justin Timberlake-ification of Stocks and Other Feedback We’re Getting
The close of the year is as good as any for some introspection and review – whether it’s a trader’s business plan, P & L for the year, or a company’s dashboard of metrics and goals. On a trip to New York earlier this month, we had amazing conversations with current and potential customers representing…
Read MoreHow the Rubberband Man Improved Automated Trading
Market Orders?! Automated trading functionality introduced by Trade-Ideas only had market orders for initiating and covering positions. Market orders?! The first version of the software was more proof of concept than anything else. That’s why the ones using it were kept to a bare minimum. Much is about to change. After analyzing trader feedback and…
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