Posts Tagged ‘Strategy-Session’
The Key to Finding a Winning Strategy in Any Market
Are you tired of being spoon-feed trades without knowing how to come up with the ideas on your own? Many traders fall into the trap of being fed the fish but never really knowing how to go about fishing on their own. This post and next week’s aim to fix that. The Words that Would…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Best Ways to Find the Tipping Points
New alerts and filters added recently expand the arsenal of ways in which any trading universe can be modeled in Trade-Ideas. We even created some sample strategies to show you how they are used. Here’s what we did: Added bottoming tail and topping tail alerts. Added new filters to find stocks based on how much…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas in Your Town: What Smaller Events Can Teach You
You have 2 opportunities (one in San Diego and the other in Phoenix) to get some great education and learn not only about how to use Trade-Ideas more effectively with your trading plan, but you’ll also have the opportunity to see how our latest tool, the Automated Trading Bot, automates a trading plan with OptionsXpress.…
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 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…
Read MoreTrade More Profitably: 9 Effective (and Slightly Badass) Ways to Just Do It
Whoa! We’re alive! It seems the booze and turkey from Thanksgiving knocked the lights out on the blog for a bit. We’re back and in a market that still acts like the other shoe is going to fall. In fact with a Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times survey now saying Americans are expecting a recession within a…
Read MoreI Bet My Personal Trading Volatility Is Higher Than Yours
Volatility says in a sense, that what moves up also moves down. Here’s how we define it technically as it applies to our real-time statistical analysis: Definition of technical volatility A resourceful trader knows his/her prey and can identify a stock’s natural volatility so that a natural wiggle doesn’t automatically hit a stop order (See…
Read MoreFind and Adopt Dead Cat and Bow-wow Trading Patterns
If you’re not a regular reader of The Kirk Report, you’re missing market commentary from a trading veteran who’s concise and straightforward about market activity – he’s also got a fun streak of cynicism as it relates to the mainstream financial publications like Barrons et al. I got hooked on Kirk’s site by the lists…
Read MoreStrategy Examples of 10 Trading Principles
What a prize. I don’t have the occasion to tie in as many revelant, organized links from our content as I do today. Yesterday Dr. Brett Steenbarger of TraderFeed put together a list of 10 Principles of Short-Term Trading. Notice how articulate Dr. Brett is with his plain English description of ideal trading patterns? Quite…
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