Strategy-Session: 2 Patterns You Want to See As They Happen

I mentioned in yesterday’s post that a bunch of traders gathered online to see and hear my present how Trade-Ideas PRO can model any pattern.   They let me have it. I took almost 20 descriptions 30 minutes before the presentation began and picked 3 to model and walk everyone through the process of modeling…

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5 Modeling Techniques of Any Decision Support Tool

TodayI gave about 250+ traders from VCM (Velez Capital Management) a chance to get personal questions answered and see first hand how the platform performs in the hands of its custodians (me). I want to share with you the essentials of what I presented to them; namely, what challenges Trade-Ideas resolves for traders and what…

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Auto-Trading Doesn’t Listen When You Whine

The best athletes use coaches who don’t give up when their performer wants to quit. They carve out the negativity and bad habits of the athlete and leave nothing but the will and the means to win. As our coach, the Auto Trading Bot, makes us a better trader. The latest videos from Monday, December…

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Directions to Automated Trading Success Same as Those to Carnegie Hall

Heard this one? [Tourist and New Yorker approach each other at the street corner] Tourist: “What’s the best way to get to Carnegie Hall?“ New Yorker: “Practice! Practice! Practice!“ The videos of Trade-Ideas’ automation on our YouTube Channel offer views of our practice sessions in the market using real capital and real market situations.  Viewers…

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How to Trade Without a Market Bias: Lesson from a Green P&L

The latest videos from Thursday, December 4th and Friday, December 5th are posted on the Trade-Ideas YouTube Channel.  Each day took a different path on its way to a profitable P&L.  Our approach with the automation is to use 3 Long strategies and 3 Short strategies (not necessarily the flip of the other).  These strategies…

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Trade-Ideas Automation: Great Entries that Smoke the Hottest of Hot Keys

Automated trading results are in for Wednesday, December 3. Wednesday, December 3rd Trade-Ideas Automated Trading Bot executing trades through TD AMERITRADE Brokerage (QuoteTracker version) Lot size: 100 share lots per trade, $5 commission/1-way ($10 total/trade) Trading rule: Hold positions for 15 minutes after entry trading only the 1st 5 minutes of the open Results: Gross Profit…

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You Haven’t Witnessed Trading Like This Before

Your trading day done in 15 minutes – 15 minutes after the open.  Mining profits from an area few individual traders trading manually could ever hope to achieve. Automated trading results are in for Monday and Tuesday of this week. Monday, December 1st Trade-Ideas Automated Trading Bot executing trades through Assent Brokerage Lot size: 100…

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Results of Automated Trading: Trade-Ideas Turducken Mash-Up

Trade-Ideas’ Automated Trading Bot ran off 3 profitable days of trading this week.  That’s notable because: this is the first week we’ve been trading automated strategies designed for this market’s volatile action – and not on a testing basis we’re relearning our own tool – gaining insight on how to trade profitably given any commission…

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Farley and Twitter Combine to Find My Next Great Trade

A Scan that Finds Stocks Resisting the Market Downtrend – Stick Above the 200 MA Already my post earlier this week,  How Twitter Improves My Trades, continues to evolve and provide further lessons. Twitter Apps to Consider There’s a growing list of applications that build off of the Twitter data feed of wit, prose, commentary of…

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How Twitter Improves My Trades – A Dummy Makes A Comeback

Using Twitters helps my feel for the markets and satisfies my sense of community with fellow traders. Specifically I use Twitter: to contribute to the conversation among those I follow and those who follow me.  I do this by taking advantage of the ample resources Trade-Ideas makes available to the trading community at https://trade-ideas.54solutions.com/StockInfo/ For instance…

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