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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Scans that Feed the Bulls & Bears on FOX Biz

This post is for @TALENTED BLONDE who posted on Twitter this morning,  http://twitter.com/TALENTEDBLONDE/status/1300271000 I decided to feed her a possible storyline for this afternoon, developed by interacting with the StockTwits crowd the last couple of days. It goes like this version of a Harper’s Index: (Data as of 1:50pm EST, Mar. 9, 2009) Number of…

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Your Trading Plan Benefits from My Visit to the NYC Traders Expo

Our news is your news.  What’s happened over the past week at Trade-Ideas can impact your trading plan, how you use Trade-Ideas PRO and its tools, or at least give you a new place from which to gather great market insight and a continuing trader’s education.   NYC Traders EXPO: 2 Surprises I came away…

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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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How to Short $BAC All Over Again. Watch History Repeat.

The headlines sound an omnious alarm: “Bank of America tumbles on nationalization worries” (Reuters, February 4, 2009) BAC continues to take it on the chin: teetering on bankruptcy, government bail out yada yada yada.  If you shorted this ride – congratulations.  But is the ride over? Maybe there is more opportunity yet to find in…

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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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