Posts Tagged ‘scanners’
Brokers Better Know This If They Want to Keep You
A majority of customers expect to change brokers within the next 6 months. In fact 2007 may be know as the “Year of the Switch“. That’s the premise of an eye-opening article published over the weekend from the Aite Group LLC, “What Really Matters to Retail Consumers of Online Brokerage? Who They Are and What…
Read More200-Day Winners by Volatility
This list shows which stocks have moved up the most over the last 200 trading days. Because this list is organized by the size of the price change relative to the stock’s volatility, it shows the most statistically unusual price increases. This list compares the 200 day moving average to the volatility over the last…
Read MoreStocks Fit Enough for a Comeback
I call this custom scan from our free Research Center, “Quality Stocks Down the Most from the 50-Day Moving Average“. My latest definition of a quality stock is one that is still in the top half of its range for the year. These stocks took a hit but still have their collective necks above the…
Read MoreThink You Know Where the Bottom or Top Is? These Scans Will Help Spot It
Bulls and Bears come to Trade-Ideas to place signposts that point to where certain stocks are headed – this is especially easy because much of the information is free and updated daily. Signposts are like road signs that help traders clue into which direction in which to trade. The more signposts a trader puts on…
Read MoreTo Clear a Trader’s Head: Just Flip It
On the topic of Perspective: Lady Astor: “If I were your wife, I would poison your coffee.”Winston Churchill: “If you were my wife, I would drink it.” Captain Kirk reveals a great technique for changing one’s perspective that eliminates opinions and sticks to strict objectiveness in trading decisions: flip the chart. Flip the chart and…
Read MoreWhat’s Above the 20 Day SMA and Up 5 Days?
Not everything went off a cliff this week. Some stocks are still above their 20 day moving average and are up each day of the week (as of Thursday’s close). TickerSense points out it’s important to look for stocks that weather the storm rather than what got hit hardest. So here is a custom scan…
Read MoreWhen Subscribers Talk: Don’t Stop til You Get Enough
The truth is – it’s never enough. Keeping customers talking about a product or service in a positive, constructive way means delivering on the features that customers ask for and fixing or changing what they dislike. Fortunately we keep the conversation ratio tilted to the positive. The 3 latest improvements to the service fall into…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Persistent Strong Closes
Let’s leave it up to good karma that after reading today’s post from Dr. Brett Steenbarger, “Persistent Strong Closes: The Personality of This Stock Market“, I field an interesting support IM (Note: list of support IMs here) from “a Brooklyn Trader” that produces a good strategy based on Brett’s observations – a Strategy Session we…
Read MoreA Best Practice in Trading Using Trade-Ideas
My goodness we have a lot to share with you this week (including new feature announcements, Expo updates, articles, etc.) and we are already behind – it being Tuesday! Let’s start with a big thank you for the informative article Dr. Brett Steenbarger wrote on Saturday, Stock Screening for Index Traders: A Best Practice in…
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