Help Us Choose the New Makeover Design for Trade-Ideas.com

Some exciting changes are coming to Trade-Ideas – specifically this blog and our entire site.  It’s a makeover that promises to: Easily allow people to navigate to information they need on the site Explain what we do with more clarity to new visitors I’ve already shown the set of 4 makeover designs from which we…

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Following This Bear Swing Set-Up Netted a 84% Win Rate

Improved OddsMaker Models Swing Trades Noticed anything?  We changed The OddsMaker by expanding the range of the backtest and introducing longer hold times with which to model trading rules.  The details of the enhancements are in the User’s Guide.  This post demonstrates via an example strategy how the changes improve the universe of possible trading…

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Add a Service: Who to Bring into the Fold

At the San Diego meetings I pitched that Trade-Ideas could add a partner’s service that would appear as an additional alert offering within Trade-Ideas PRO. This got a positive reception and now it’s something I want to pursue. However as partnerships go, some partners start and stop themselves, so in an effort to keep the…

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Trade Your Ideas on the Changes We’re Making to Website and Blog

Why? One of the themes from our Annual Partners’ Meeting in San Diego focused on the need to get out of our customer’s way in their pursuit to find, subscribe, and download their way to better trading decisions.  This is especially true of the customers who aren’t “touched” by any of us physically or verbally…

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Trade-Ideas In Your Town: San Diego, Annual Partners Meeting

I am headed to San Diego Friday away from some miserable weather all along the East coast for our annual Partners Meeting.  The other partners and our staff don’t have far to travel as they live in the coastal towns just north of the city. I have to hike it from Atlanta, GA.  As a result…

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Trade-Ideas Featured Partner in Tom Busby & DTI’s Chatroom

UPDATE:  Good news/Bad news Bad news I will not be speaking today in the DTI chatroom (daughter’s Thanksgiving play) Good news Trade-Ideas will be a regular feature on Tuesdays with Busby starting next week, DECEMBER 2nd. Turns out the good folks at DTI and Tom Busby are having an Open House tomorrow to talk about the markets…

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Walk, Chew Gum, and Trade Ideas: Introducing Mobile Trade-Ideas

Mobile Trade-Ideas is here. We first mentioned our work on Mobile Trade-Ideas back in June thinking this would be a good application for the 3G iPhone which just rolled out.  Now we have Google/T-Mobile G1 so it’s time to make Mobile Trade-Ideas available. What makes Mobile Trade-Ideas appropriate for the smartphone set is something as universal…

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Question for Zecco Traders

Anyone using Trade-Ideas with an account at Zecco?  If so we’d love to hear from you.  Send me an email at david “@” trade-ideas.com or comment below. Some interesting things for you to try and items to bounce off of you. Thanks!

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Trade-Ideas Releases Beta of v2.2 Without Stephen Colbert’s Endorsement

Stephen Colbert hawks his bestseller, I Am America (And So Can You!), with the pronouncement, “When you make the first one this good, you don’t have to write another one.”   We agree.   He’s talking about his book of course, but it’s just as easy to substitute with the phrase ‘decision-support trading tool‘, right?  That’s…

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The Perils of Long Term Buy and Hold

Many readers here can say they lived and even traded during the greatest bull market in the history of the stock market. Around every corner held opportunity. Every pullback was another great point to add to positions. Are we in such a pullback now or are we destined to muddle through sideways or declining markets?…

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