Stock Scanning to Make Opportunity Out of the Market’s Traps

Here’s the beginning of a correspondence with Dr. Brett Steenbarger who wisely suggested that the exchange would make for a good blog post. That’s why he’s the PhD. From the Desk of Trade Ideas March 24, 2010 Dear Brett, I just read your quick post regarding the “traps” the market can play on intraday traders…

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Stocks Down for the Day: A Great Pattern for Your Scanner

A very common question we get is, “How do i find stocks that are down for the day? I only see ‘up’ filters.” A new video shows how to find stocks that are up or down for the day, using our “up from the close” filters. Thank you Marissa for explaining that so clearly. A…

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Make the Market Work for You

Counter Trend Trading: Inviting Your Ego to Trade Today while trading and discussing trading on Stocktwits, I came across a very interesting article written by Dr. Brett Steenbarger. This article discusses the compulsion some traders have to counter trend trade. Traders who counter trend trade are sometimes called contrarians. The reason I wanted to blog…

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Trade Ideas on Your Kindle

Trade-Ideas Mobile works on the Kindle. Add a bookmark for http://mobile.trade-ideas.com. Make sure to turn on “Advanced Mode” in your Kindle browser to get the formatting right. Of course, we’re always pushing the limits. You can get streaming stock alerts on the Kindle. But Trade-Ideas works best if you request historical stock data for your…

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A 1-hr Visit Can Improve Your Trading Plan

The good folks at DTI and Tom Busby invite Trade-Ideas to present during their very popular Live TradeRoom sessions tomorrow, Tuesday, August 4 beginning at 9:15 AM EDT. Here is the agenda for tomorrow. Note: I will be speaking at 12:00PM EDT. 9:30am – 12:00pm EDT “Live Trading and Education: Futures First: Using the Indexes…

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200 Day SMA Good Support for a Swing Trade: August TAS&C Traders’ Tips

Traders’ Tips August Issue “It’s not being wrong that kills you, it’s staying wrong that kills you.” Jeff Macke, Trader For this month’s Traders’ Tips, we offer a stock trading strategy based, in part, on the position of a stock near its 200 day Moving Average. Specifically this strategy discovers that in today’s market the…

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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…

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Improve 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…

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Trade-Ideas in Your Town: Chicago

Headed to Chicago for the rest of the week and weekend to meet several hedge funds and pal around with a long time group of subscribers/traders. We’re actually meeting at Rivers after the close on Wednesday to hoist a few as part of a impromptu Tweet Up. Hopefully I’ve got enough T-shirts. http://bit.ly/dhFhO I’ll be…

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