Posts Tagged ‘TI-Trading Plan’
Like “Kobe Doin’ Work”, To Get Great You Gotta Watch the Tape
Here’s one in an occasional series of posts highlighting the growing number of our partners who’s adding value to the trading community. Today we highlight an educational service that leverages the use of realtime video to provide insight on the decisions of an experienced trader reacting to the market’s opportunities. TodayTrader The educational service is…
Read MoreImprove Your Trading Plan with a 1-Hour Visit
So the good folks at DTI and Tom Busby invite Trade-Ideas to present during their very popular Live TradeRoom sessions tomorrow, Tuesday, July 7 beginning at 8:15 AM CST. Note: I will be speaking at 12:00PM CST. Topic: How to Find a Profitable Strategy in Under 10 Minutes If you are new to Trade-Ideas or…
Read MoreTrailing Resistance & Support Stops: TAS&C July Traders’ Tips
Traders’ Tips July Issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities “Eventually, luck runs out; skill does not.” Scalper68 (AlexD) In this month’s Traders’ Tips, Sylvain Vervoort offers a 3rd trailing stop method, called a trailing resistance & support stop, which evaluates price movements or ‘turning points’. This 3rd trailing stop method most closely resembles…
Read MoreMailbag: Bot Trading Manages Risk at the Open
The Open and its frenzied activity can reward as well as punish traders. The difference between these two groups comes down to experience certainly, but also the insight and quick decisions that new tools (especially automation) can bring to bear. From the Mailbag (Support Forum) came a question about such topics that I want to…
Read MoreThis Strategy’s Winners Are 5x Greater Than Its Losers – Explanation:
I gave a solid presentation to traders online in a DTI chat room this afternoon. DTI offers educational services across all instruments but specialize in equities, commodities, and futures. They are lead by the talented Tom Busby and Jeanette Sims. The format I used involved soliciting requests for favorite chart patterns ahead of my talk…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas: Why Won’t You Make Me Rich?
We receive on a regular basis from individuals the comments, demands, requests, supplications, and sometimes the pleas for the keys to making them great wealth. A recent message seemed breathless in its desire, “Basically What i need is a collaboration…and a system trading platform based on historical data……What time to trade….how many….what amount per trade…and…
Read MoreBe in 2 Places at Once to Nail Your Next Gap Trade
The market is expected to open lower this morning for several reasons (all from my Twitter feed this AM): SmallCapInvestOil: prices languished near $46 a barrel Tuesday after renewed doubts about the health of U.S. banks sent crude and stock markets tumbling. alansmurray: Caterpillar and DuPont earnings raise fresh concerns about economic weakness. http://bit.ly/IjQ7S SmallCapInvest:…
Read MoreMy Respectful Disagreement About Your P/L
Andy Swan is a trader, a friend, and a funny guy. He’s proven himself in the market and in business as one of the sharpest tools in the toolbox. And I respectfully disagree with him on this point he made today: “The best way to take emotion out of trading is to stop caring…
Read MoreFollowing 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…
Read More2 Key Tactics to Know When Making Any Trading Transition
Avoid Getting Lost in Translation It is very easy to get excited about systems test results. We have fallen victim to that problem ourselves as we spend more time working with traders who have gone to automation. What happens and more importantly what do you do when your system is not performing as well as…
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