Posts Tagged ‘trade ideas’
Checking In with The Doctor: Memorial Wknd Reading
There’s a couple of good articles over at TraderFeed, Dr. Bret Steenbarger’s widely read and essential blog for the self-improving trader. Both articles compliment each other: one post discusses a checklist of elements to consider when making a transition from one trading style to another (make sure to read the helpful reader comments too). The…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Find the Move During the Pause that Refreshes
I received a good question from our support forum that I want to repeat here. It’s a simple request about how to model a pattern that this customer wants to see in the market. Question: Stocks Taking a Breather What filters or alerts can I use to finds stocks that are, “taking a breather“?I.e. it…
Read MoreDark Pools Looking More Like the Kiddie Pool: Shallow and Smelly
2 interesting articles this week from WSJ and Reuters on the untamed and unaccountable dark pools in the market. What are dark pools? The WSJ defines them as “the secretive electronic trading networks that match buyers and sellers anonymously.” These trades are done outside of the traditional stock markets like the NYSE and NASDAQ. The…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Automation for Swing Trades
The fast paced world of trading excites us – buyers vs. sellers, large capitalized players vs smaller and quicker/nimble players, etc. However we at Trade-Ideas recognize that for many in the investing public, trading twenty or thirty times a day is a lot – completely alien. That’s why our tools are also made for longer-term…
Read MoreInterview with J. Hodge, Director of Education, Trade-Ideas
I am back from some good times in Chicago that included events for TD AMERITRADE and optionsXpress. There’s plenty new strategies and insights to tell you, but I want to bring to your attention this interview of Jamie Hodge, our Director of Trader Education and long-time trading veteran, by Dave Mabe of StockTickr.com. Interview with…
Read MoreLearn How to Trade the Breaking News on Fed Day
As a result of recently adding new filters and alerts to Trade-Ideas, I learned new tricks on helping others get their ideas from their head and into Trade-Ideas much more easily. Turns out the good folks at DTI and Tom Busby are providing a platform from which to discuss how we are using the new…
Read More1 Stock’s Collapse Reveals a Pattern Others Might Follow
As many of our subscribers confirm – our technology works – really well. Here’s an example that features option filters recently added and Bear Stearns. I think this example is more relevant as we prepare to absorb one of the last of the giants in the financial sector that’s been exposed to the sub-prime mortgage…
Read MoreStockTickr Interview Reveals How We Use Automated Trading
I’m sliding under the table to you some excerpts from a recent interview that our Director of Trader Education, Jamie Hodge, gave to our good friend Dave Mabe of StockTickr. You’ll understand after reading the entire interview how to win against today’s market that’s eliminated many of the information advantages traders used to have and…
Read MoreStrategy Session: You Rob a Bank Cuz That’s Where the Money Is
The same principle applies to the market: Trade where the odds are. Last week I discussed a unique approach to determine where trades with the highest winning percentage exists. Read here to fully understand this approach which relies on the power of The OddsMaker to determine whether going Long or going Short in the market…
Read MoreThe Key to Finding a Winning Strategy in Any Market
Are you tired of being spoon-feed trades without knowing how to come up with the ideas on your own? Many traders fall into the trap of being fed the fish but never really knowing how to go about fishing on their own. This post and next week’s aim to fix that. The Words that Would…
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