Posts Tagged ‘trade ideas’
Who Needs Bad News with Good News Like This
Our Director of Trader Education, Jamie Hodge, guest blogs today with something from the, “Ever-Optimist” file: I couldn’t resist compiling the headlines (in proper order) from Google Business today: They are as follows as of 2:42pm PST. EA Reduces forcast on holiday sales Sony will cut 8000 jobs as recession( hey, i guess we’re in…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read MoreTrade-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…
Read MoreYou 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…
Read MoreAutomated Trading Video for Friday Nov. 28 Released
Last week Trade-Ideas’ released the first attempts of live automated trading on video. I also mentioned that more were coming to the Trade-Ideas Channel on YouTube. Take a look at the latest video dated from Friday, November 28, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE1z05tcl50 A couple of things to note: The video is much shorter – we’re getting the…
Read MoreResults 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…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas Featured Partner in Tom Busby & DTI’s Chatroom
UPDATE: Good news/Bad news Bad news I will not be speaking today in the DTI chatroom (daughter’s Thanksgiving play) Good news Trade-Ideas will be a regular feature on Tuesdays with Busby starting next week, DECEMBER 2nd. Turns out the good folks at DTI and Tom Busby are having an Open House tomorrow to talk about the markets…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas in Your Town: Vegas 2008
We are headed to Las Vegas this week and weekend for the Traders Expo. Here are the details: Las Vegas, NV: The Traders Expo, Mandalay Bay Resort, November 19-22, 2008 Are you planning to attend? Here’s a snapshot of some last minute fares to Las Vegas. There’s another good travel site to consider called FareCast. They are…
Read MoreTrading Desks Like JPM Fail for this Reason
I got this headline and article today: JPMorgan to cut prop desk JPMorgan Chase is to scrap its standalone proprietary trading desk, highlighting how the dearth of investment opportunities is prompting banks to retreat from in-house hedge funds that had thrived before the turmoil. People close to the situation said the decision to fold the 80-strong global…
Read MoreFarley 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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