Signposts: 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…

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The 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…

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Make the Market Work for You

Counter Trend Trading: Inviting Your Ego to Trade Today while trading and discussing trading on Stocktwits, I came across a very interesting article written by Dr. Brett Steenbarger. This article discusses the compulsion some traders have to counter trend trade. Traders who counter trend trade are sometimes called contrarians. The reason I wanted to blog…

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Trade Ideas on Your Kindle

Trade-Ideas Mobile works on the Kindle. Add a bookmark for http://mobile.trade-ideas.com. Make sure to turn on “Advanced Mode” in your Kindle browser to get the formatting right. Of course, we’re always pushing the limits. You can get streaming stock alerts on the Kindle. But Trade-Ideas works best if you request historical stock data for your…

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Trade-Ideas Yearbook Picture: Our 1st Homepage

Some fun from the Twitter stream. Always interesting Howard Lindzon posted this tonight, howardlindzonhow 20 popular websites loooked like when they launched http://bit.ly/SsPi0 …always be evolving… Source: http://twitter.com/howardlindzon/status/3722169552 Very interesting to see great sites at their beginnings – it’s like looking at yearbook pictures from those of us painfully transitioning through adolescence and puberty. I…

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Here’s How to Trade Long on % Down Stocks: Traders’ Tips

TRADERS’ TIPS: TAS&C May Issue “He was utterly fearless but never reckless.  He could, and did, turn on a twinkling if he found he was wrong.” — Jessie Livermore, American author, investor In this month’s issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities in the Traders’ Tips section, Sylvain Vervoort offers an analysis of trailing stop…

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How to Evaluate Backtesting Programs

I came across this request for information on my Twitter tube: “Evaluating backtesting programs: MetaStock, Traders Studio, Ami Broker, Strata Searc, Ninja Trader, Trade Ideas. Any thoughts?”, @milktrader Source: http://twitter.com/milktrader/status/1456777201 Each of these applications and even others not on this list, like WealthLab Pro or DIY Excel, will have advantages over the other.  Some major, some…

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No Bonus AIG. Come and Sue Us for It

The outrage ongoing on about the AIG’s contractual bonus payments to its executives made its rounds on the Sunday morning news programs and is the subject of many twitter chatter.  Here’s a typical representative comment: where would the bonus monies come from (obligated by contract) if $AIG had met its maker like it would have…

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