Posts Tagged ‘strategy’
Strategy 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 MoreIt’s the Pattern, Not the Stock that Makes the Mad Money
Disclaimer: The article mentioned below mentions Trade-Ideas as an ‘industry standard’ and sprinkles a bit more praise on us but was written unsolicited by a former trader, Dave Goodboy, turned writer for TradingMarkets.com and other outlets. “How To Use A Stock Screener” Goodboy’s article addresses the most basic of scanner and screener tools available to…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Automation for Swing Trades
The fast paced world of trading excites us – buyers vs. sellers, large capitalized players vs smaller and quicker/nimble players, etc. However we at Trade-Ideas recognize that for many in the investing public, trading twenty or thirty times a day is a lot – completely alien. That’s why our tools are also made for longer-term…
Read MoreInterview with J. Hodge, Director of Education, Trade-Ideas
I am back from some good times in Chicago that included events for TD AMERITRADE and optionsXpress. There’s plenty new strategies and insights to tell you, but I want to bring to your attention this interview of Jamie Hodge, our Director of Trader Education and long-time trading veteran, by Dave Mabe of StockTickr.com. Interview with…
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 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 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…
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…
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