This Test Measures Trading Signals: S.M.A.R.T.

We don’t create alerts unless we know they’re helpful at spotting opportunity for traders. In fact we are now known for removing alerts when market rules change and render some events insignificant. You can rely on us to keep an ever evolving list of relevant, useful, S.M.A.R.T. alerts. I explain what that means by describing…

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The Free Top List of Stocks You Can’t Miss

It’s strange how life can work in cycles. Apparently it’s no different with software either. Last year at this very time, we introduced a free, End of Day custom scanning module for Netvibe users. Since we made the tool available, usage of the module hits new highs every month. Welcome the Trade-Ideas Top List We’re…

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Your Best Trades: It’s Not What You See, But How You See It

The Smallest Change in Graphics Affect the Success of a Trading Plan We introduced version 2.1 of Trade-Ideas PRO back in May. The ‘Flip’ feature receives the most attention and fanfare at the conferences and summits we attend (more on the recent User’s Summit hosted by Scottrade in an upcoming post). How We See Affects…

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Weekend Reading: Trading Routines of a Skilled Market Veteran

A great read this weekend is the Charles Kirk interview in the recent issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities. Kirk is an excellent resource to tap as someone who describes what he’s doing in the market and how he trades opportunities without selling it like a stock picking newsletter. He is most famous…

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How My Trading Improved Thinking Like a Martial Arts Fighter

Bang! Bang! Oof! Ouch! These aren’t the sounds from a day in the market, it’s the sounds of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) which is quickly becoming one of the fastest growing sports in the world. I’m a big fan of not only the incredible action in the ring, but the mental chess that’s played in…

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Automation, OddsMaker, and Expectations: Lessons Learned so Far

We are not only software makers, we are our own Guinea pigs (kinda like those hairclub companies). Fully automated trading recently arrived to the suite of Trade-Ideas tools. We do this by first implementing a strategy created and backtested via The OddsMaker. Then we execute the strategy rolling forward via an API (Application Programming Interface)…

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Poker Odds and Professional Trading

There is no doubt in my mind that the skills to succeed in poker are the same skills to succeed in trading. Unfortunately most people approach trading differently and in a way that opens them up to losses and eventual failure. Is your hand worth playing? In poker understanding the odds of your hand determines…

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I Bet My Personal Trading Volatility Is Higher Than Yours

Volatility says in a sense, that what moves up also moves down. Here’s how we define it technically as it applies to our real-time statistical analysis: Definition of technical volatility A resourceful trader knows his/her prey and can identify a stock’s natural volatility so that a natural wiggle doesn’t automatically hit a stop order (See…

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Know Your Enemy

“Know your enemy. You’re at war. They outgun you. In head-on combat, odds are against you. You must redefine the rules of engagement. Go into the shadows, yours. Never play by their rules, on their battlefield. Fight an asymmetrical war with the insurgent’s tactics. Play your game, by your rules. You must decide. Fight your…

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