Posts Tagged ‘trade ideas’
Answers from the Many Questions DTI Traders Asked
Yesterday I participated in a great day of trader education organized by Tom Busby and the folks at DTI and sponsored by optionsXpress. My presentation discussed the best way to develop a theme about the market and test whether and how much profits can be made using our backtesting tool, The OddsMaker. It was a…
Read MoreImprove Your Trading Plan with this One Visit
I am just back from a great conference in Phoenix sponsored by optionsXpress. I learned alot about Trade-Ideas while interacting with the audience and our Director of Education, Jamie Hodge. We added so many new filters and alerts to Trade-Ideas recently, I fell behind a bit on everything we can do. I also learned new…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas in Your Town: Off to Phoenix
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the Trade-Ideas ‘krewe’ will be headed to Phoenix for an Expo sponsored entirely by optionsXpress (details). I am an advocate of these types of get togethers between companies and customers because of several benefits each party receives. How Attendees Benefit Attendees get a chance for a deeper dive…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Best Ways to Find the Tipping Points
New alerts and filters added recently expand the arsenal of ways in which any trading universe can be modeled in Trade-Ideas. We even created some sample strategies to show you how they are used. Here’s what we did: Added bottoming tail and topping tail alerts. Added new filters to find stocks based on how much…
Read MoreNY EXPO Attendee? See a Pro Use Trade-Ideas
UPDATE: Here is Dave himslef talking about his presentation: http://blog.stocktickr.com/2008/02/08/presentation-on-automation-at-traders-expo/ If you are attending the upcoming NY Traders Expo beginning Sunday and lasting until Tuesday next week, you’ll want to see one of our subscribers, Dave Mabe of StockTickr, use Trade-Ideas to fatten his portfolio. Dave is one of the nicest guys you’ll meet in…
Read MoreOption Traders Will Love These New Filters in Trade-Ideas
Trade-Ideas expands the list of ways to describe an option trader’s universe with 6 new filters. These filters are in their final testing phase and will soon go live. When they do subscribers will simply see them appear in the list under the Filters tab in Trade-Ideas PRO. And you thought you had to download…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas in Your Town: What Smaller Events Can Teach You
You have 2 opportunities (one in San Diego and the other in Phoenix) to get some great education and learn not only about how to use Trade-Ideas more effectively with your trading plan, but you’ll also have the opportunity to see how our latest tool, the Automated Trading Bot, automates a trading plan with OptionsXpress.…
Read MoreKnowing the Market’s Mood is Better than Guessing What Comes Next
Figuring out exactly what the market will do at the very next moment is tough to do. Understanding what mood the market is in, however, proves to be not only easier, but eventually leads to better accuracy about what comes next. The beauty of Trade-Ideas’ tools is that you get to ask and answer your…
Read MoreResources to Get You Over the Learning Curve
Recent question posted in our support forum: New Scottrade User – Is there a newbie’s guide to this very powerful tool? A simple way to scan for volume surges, volatility, and trending?I am frankly overwhelmed by the options here. Thanks. Our Answer: Good question. There are alot of places to start. Here’s a list: The…
Read MoreRoundUp of the Best Headlines – 2007
It’s been a year of tremendous growth and innovation at Trade-Ideas. You can see what’s been added in a snapshot timeline by following this What’s New link – you may have missed something that could help your trading even more! Thanks to our dear readers our blog gets more visits each week (even if we’ve…
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