Posts Tagged ‘TI-Trading Plan’
Strategy Session: Over Extended Up Move – TAS&C November Article
Traders’ Tips November Issue “With globalization, the big [countries] don’t eat the small; the fast eat the slow.” Thomas L. Friedman (Op-ed columnist, New York Times) Mr. Friedman’s observation easily applies to traders. For this month’s Traders’ Tips, we’ve provided a strategy that uses speed to uncover a backtested and winning advantage in this volatile…
Read MoreBenefits from Unemotionally Trading Your Plan
There isn’t much to add to this example of a trader’s breakthrough in sticking to the trade plan. Too often and too easily a trader jumps in to change course and deviate from a pre-determined course of action within a trade – and the result is almost always suboptimal. In fact one of the worst…
Read MoreRound-Up: How Traders Use Trade-Ideas
Here is a round-up of the more useful articles and buzz on how others are using Trade-Ideas in their routine. Filters I Use to Create My Universe of Tradable Stocks http://tradermike.net/2008/09/filters_i_use_to_create_my_universe_of_tradable_stocks/ I was recently asked about how I determine my “universe” of stocks … . To do that I use the following two scans in Trade–Ideas:…
Read MorePut A Go-Getter and A Cleaner on Your Payroll
As helpful a suite of tools like Trade-Ideas is to have on the payroll; generating ideas based on pattern recognition, backtesting those ideas based on the recent market activity, and in some cases automating the next trade, there’s another important ‘player’ to employ on your staff: the cleaner or bookkeeper. StockTickr is an online portfolio…
Read MoreThe 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?…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas ‘Fundamentally’ Changed: Why It’ll Never Be the Same
Change is good. Especially the incremental improvement change work we do to Trade-Ideas on a constant basis. For those of you who are new and see the large inventory of alerts and filters – sorry. The list is long but well organized and only meant to appeal to the wide variety of traders and trading…
Read MoreThe Zig-Zag Method for Trading Profitably and Maintaining an Edge Forever
I’ve never seen such an avalanche of ad campaigning for a single week of TV programming: it’s Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. If you’ve been to New York anytime over the last 4 weeks, you’ve been flooded with all forms of print ads everywhere. It’s so saturated that all the shows that tape in…
Read MoreMarkets Don’t Fit Your Trading Style? Engage with Better Odds of Winning
Our audience for the blog consists mainly of potential customers, returning customers, and existing subscribers. Really informed traders come here for market insight and working strategies that we model in a category of posts called, Strategy Sessions. A lot of product information and other nuggets appear here on the blog first. Occasionally however we actually…
Read MoreTwo Different Make-overs on the Virtual Trading Floor Will Impact Your Trading
Quick AssessmentAre you taking advantage of internet communications to speak/talk/converse with other traders of significantly more experience on a regular basis? If you are not a “Jedi” master trader, where are you getting additional, one-on-one help? Who is enabling you to achieve better insight into your trading?How does ongoing training and/or lessons learned in trading…
Read MoreOne Trader’s Transition to Automated Trading: Insights for You
Dave Mabe is a trader first and entrepreneur addicted to trading second – my kind of fellow. Following his slow transformation from entirely discretionary trading to one that relies increasingly on automated trading fascinates anyone reading his posts on the subject. He describes a path whose benefits include, among others, less time behind the computer,…
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