Posts Tagged ‘strategy’
Strategy 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…
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 MoreTrade-Ideas In Your Town: Vegas 2007
We are headed to Las Vegas this week and weekend for the Traders Expo. Here are the details: Las Vegas, NV: The Traders Expo, Mandalay Bay Resort, November 15-18, 2007 Are you planning to attend? Here’s a snapshot of some last minute fares to Las Vegas. There’s another good travel site to consider called FareCast.…
Read MoreThis Test Measures Trading Signals: S.M.A.R.T.
We don’t create alerts unless we know they’re helpful at spotting opportunity for traders. In fact we are now known for removing alerts when market rules change and render some events insignificant. You can rely on us to keep an ever evolving list of relevant, useful, S.M.A.R.T. alerts. I explain what that means by describing…
Read MoreThe Free Top List of Stocks You Can’t Miss
It’s strange how life can work in cycles. Apparently it’s no different with software either. Last year at this very time, we introduced a free, End of Day custom scanning module for Netvibe users. Since we made the tool available, usage of the module hits new highs every month. Welcome the Trade-Ideas Top List We’re…
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