Trailing 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…

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Show Your Colors, Take Some Credit

With the recent website redesign comes a roll of new banners that hopefully convey the value we bring to the trade decision process. If you agree and one of these banners resonates with you, feel free to place them on your blog or social media outlet. They come in several shapes and forms. Anyone who…

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Data Traders Who Swing: Rejoice With Longer Term Filters

Trade Ideas Releases Start of New Filters Aimed at Longer Term Patterns & Trades We added several new filters aimed at longer term data traders. As of today you can now: Filter stocks based on the size of a multi-day range (5, 10, 20 day range) Filter the stock’s position in that multi-day range (5,…

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Mailbag: 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…

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Automated Trade Ideas in Your Hand: You Set Our Course

Trade-Ideas on your smartphone: iPhone or Palm Pre or Blackberry Who wants to trade on such a confined space? On the go . . . making so many decisions with so many distractions? Trading actively and manually doesn’t seem to make much sense. But supervising fully automated trades with automated risk management controls (what we…

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This 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…

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New Website, Same Old Approach

Our website changed today – the result of some new branding for our advanced trading tools and a better way of communicating the value we bring to the trading process. https://trade-ideas.54solutions.com But with all that’s changed in our message and our look, somethings remain very much the same. It’s great to read this from a…

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Morning Prep and Trades Show How I Got Ready Today

I get ready for the day, trying to figure out a market theme that will bias my trading direction for the session and thanks to Twitter/StockTwits, I get an insightful nugget from Brian Shannon of Alphatrends: “When 200 DMAs are DECLINING, rallies typically DO NOT hold, especially when they are advertised so strongly in media,…

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Trade-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…

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Be 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:…

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