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4 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…
Read MoreWhat to Do When You’re Suspicious of Low Volume Rises in the Market
TraderMike’s commentary on the markets yesterday included this observation, “I’m always suspicious of low volume rises and this time is no different, especially for the S&P 500 which has been making lower highs and lower lows for the last month or so.” I agree. In fact we’ve created a couple of strategies in Trade-Ideas that…
Read MoreDoes Your Trading Plan Benefit from Continuing Education?
After the Traders Expo in San Diego finished this past weekend, I asked several members of our team what their impressions were and how things went. Traders are not like CPAs, but in one regard they should be One reason I think it’s important to share these thoughts is to help you judge whether or…
Read MoreHow a Boston Roundtable Will Affect Your Future Trades
Last week I mentioned a industry roundtable facilitated by the Aite Group, a research think tank that provides actionable, strategic advice on IT, business and regulatory issues in the financial services industry. It’s a group we admire for their finger in the wind forecasts and analysis of emerging trends – special hat tip to Sang…
Read MoreSummer Camp Automation at Trade-Ideas Will Yield an Even Hotter Winter
Between beach trips, the San Diego Traders Expo (you’re coming right?), and cookouts, development on automated algorithmic trading continues. The results (like all our tools) will bring new leveraged abilities to individual traders to level the playing field against anyone in the market. Early “alpha” testing of automating trades begins with strategy development in Trade-Ideas,…
Read MoreTrade Like TraderMike
TraderInterviews.com discusses strategies and techniques with Trader Mike, one of the best known traders and commentators out there. Just some of the gems from this interview (Specs: 15 mins, 01 secs): Why he likes shorting stocks more than going long Thoughts about how blogging helps him be a better trader What are the minimum filters…
Read MoreScottrade Makes a Splash with Online Ads
These Scottrade ads featuring Trade-Ideas are running on Yahoo Finance in high frequency. They look great. What results will we be able to see thanks to these marketing efforts? Increased attendance at the next Scottrade User’s Summit in SF (scheduled sometime in September) – the last one was in Chicago Increased positive feedback, emails, and…
Read MoreStocks Up Exactly 8 Days
From TickerSense yesterday: “This is just the 64th time since 1900 that the DJIA has been up 8 days in a row … The last time the Index had an 8-day winning streak was in March of 2002.” I’m not suggesting a correlation between the DJIA and the following lists of stocks, but to carry…
Read More20-Day Stock Gainers & Losers: Maximizing Buying Power
If you don’t already read Charles Kirk’s The Kirk Report, you should. It’s a bevy of information very relevant and useful to the active trader. Yesterday and today The Captain describes a source for finding 20-Day High Percentage Gainers and Losers. Because Kirk regularly mentions Trade-Ideas’ scans as a good resource, I don’t think it’s…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Finding Consolidation Breakouts
Question from IM Support today: Subscriber: (3:47:59 PM): do you have any scans for setups that have like a 30 day high, then consolidates for about 5 days and then breaks out of that consolidation? Some of the details of his request are changed to protect his idea. The tricky part of this request is…
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