How Twitter Improves My Trades – A Dummy Makes A Comeback

Using Twitters helps my feel for the markets and satisfies my sense of community with fellow traders. Specifically I use Twitter: to contribute to the conversation among those I follow and those who follow me.  I do this by taking advantage of the ample resources Trade-Ideas makes available to the trading community at https://trade-ideas.54solutions.com/StockInfo/ For instance…

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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…

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Walk, Chew Gum, and Trade Ideas: Introducing Mobile Trade-Ideas

Mobile Trade-Ideas is here. We first mentioned our work on Mobile Trade-Ideas back in June thinking this would be a good application for the 3G iPhone which just rolled out.  Now we have Google/T-Mobile G1 so it’s time to make Mobile Trade-Ideas available. What makes Mobile Trade-Ideas appropriate for the smartphone set is something as universal…

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It Feels Like Animal Farm

George Orwell writes how the animals rose up against their human oppressors and took over the farm.  However it was soon evident that once they were in power, not all animals were created equal. Some animals were more privileged than others. It seems that Wall Street and Main Street have a case of Animal Farm-itis.…

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Question for Zecco Traders

Anyone using Trade-Ideas with an account at Zecco?  If so we’d love to hear from you.  Send me an email at david “@” trade-ideas.com or comment below. Some interesting things for you to try and items to bounce off of you. Thanks!

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Benefits 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…

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Round-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:…

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Put 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…

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Institutional Brokers Teeter, Retail Brokers Innovate

It’s tough to get anything else out about the markets or its players on this solemn day but … … a bright spot exists among the retail brokers (who seem to be in better shape than the institutional ones) with a second broker rolling out event-based backtesting powered by Trade-Ideas. On Friday Scottrade announced a…

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Your Brain’s the Grail. How to Make It Holy

Ok. Let’s do something really crazy. I’ve something big to confess. I’ve been hiding it for months because I don’t want the headlines, I don’t want our servers to crash, I don’t even want the private island and the jet to take me there. But now, I can’t hold it in any longer, so here…

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