Posts Tagged ‘screeners’
Does 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 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…
Read MoreBrokers 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…
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