Posts Tagged ‘stocks’
“Float On” Leads 11 Algos, 7 Long: Holly Morning Huddle Report
Good morning. Here is your Holly Morning Huddle Report. Today the number of Long strategies outnumber the Shorts, but first let’s assess my overall performance. As of today, Monday, November 14, 2016, the return from my trading performance since January 1 stands at +96.4 accumulated profit points vs the benchmark SPY’s performance of +10.2 points over the same period. On…
Read MoreOops I did it Again
Another day another stellar winning summary! I have to sometimes scratch my eyes to make sure I am seeing what I am seeing. Holly is performing in a way that literally could change the whole concept of investing. Many factors are congealing to help us become the premier provider of information in Finance. Our good…
Read MoreSignposts: A Method of Market Forecasting Which Strategies to Employ
3 Roadsigns popped up today from 3 different people whose opinion and calls on the market activity I respect. These people aren’t market timers – if anything they’re probably early with their calls, but when I hear or read people I respect offering these types of market forecasts, I pay attention and start to pull…
Read MoreThe Market Sneezes, but Trade Ideas Never Catches a Cold: Data Variances
Editor’s Note: The following post is from our Chief Technical Officer, Philip Smolen. In it he points to a rather frequent occurrence of the data inconsistencies that plague the tape and which, if left unchecked or not addressed, can seriously affect real-time sensitive tools like Trade Ideas. Fortunately for us and for those of you…
Read MoreFarley and Twitter Combine to Find My Next Great Trade
A Scan that Finds Stocks Resisting the Market Downtrend – Stick Above the 200 MA Already my post earlier this week, How Twitter Improves My Trades, continues to evolve and provide further lessons. Twitter Apps to Consider There’s a growing list of applications that build off of the Twitter data feed of wit, prose, commentary of…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Find the Move During the Pause that Refreshes
I received a good question from our support forum that I want to repeat here. It’s a simple request about how to model a pattern that this customer wants to see in the market. Question: Stocks Taking a Breather What filters or alerts can I use to finds stocks that are, “taking a breather“?I.e. it…
Read MoreStrategy Session: You Rob a Bank Cuz That’s Where the Money Is
The same principle applies to the market: Trade where the odds are. Last week I discussed a unique approach to determine where trades with the highest winning percentage exists. Read here to fully understand this approach which relies on the power of The OddsMaker to determine whether going Long or going Short in the market…
Read MoreKnowing the Market’s Mood is Better than Guessing What Comes Next
Figuring out exactly what the market will do at the very next moment is tough to do. Understanding what mood the market is in, however, proves to be not only easier, but eventually leads to better accuracy about what comes next. The beauty of Trade-Ideas’ tools is that you get to ask and answer your…
Read MoreRoundUp of the Best Headlines – 2007
It’s been a year of tremendous growth and innovation at Trade-Ideas. You can see what’s been added in a snapshot timeline by following this What’s New link – you may have missed something that could help your trading even more! Thanks to our dear readers our blog gets more visits each week (even if we’ve…
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…
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