Posts Tagged ‘trade ideas’
The Justin Timberlake-ification of Stocks and Other Feedback We’re Getting
The close of the year is as good as any for some introspection and review – whether it’s a trader’s business plan, P & L for the year, or a company’s dashboard of metrics and goals. On a trip to New York earlier this month, we had amazing conversations with current and potential customers representing…
Read MoreHow the Rubberband Man Improved Automated Trading
Market Orders?! Automated trading functionality introduced by Trade-Ideas only had market orders for initiating and covering positions. Market orders?! The first version of the software was more proof of concept than anything else. That’s why the ones using it were kept to a bare minimum. Much is about to change. After analyzing trader feedback and…
Read MoreTrade More Profitably: 9 Effective (and Slightly Badass) Ways to Just Do It
Whoa! We’re alive! It seems the booze and turkey from Thanksgiving knocked the lights out on the blog for a bit. We’re back and in a market that still acts like the other shoe is going to fall. In fact with a Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times survey now saying Americans are expecting a recession within a…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas In Your Town: Vegas 2007
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 15-18, 2007 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.…
Read MoreThis Test Measures Trading Signals: S.M.A.R.T.
We don’t create alerts unless we know they’re helpful at spotting opportunity for traders. In fact we are now known for removing alerts when market rules change and render some events insignificant. You can rely on us to keep an ever evolving list of relevant, useful, S.M.A.R.T. alerts. I explain what that means by describing…
Read MoreThe Free Top List of Stocks You Can’t Miss
It’s strange how life can work in cycles. Apparently it’s no different with software either. Last year at this very time, we introduced a free, End of Day custom scanning module for Netvibe users. Since we made the tool available, usage of the module hits new highs every month. Welcome the Trade-Ideas Top List We’re…
Read MoreYour Best Trades: It’s Not What You See, But How You See It
The Smallest Change in Graphics Affect the Success of a Trading Plan We introduced version 2.1 of Trade-Ideas PRO back in May. The ‘Flip’ feature receives the most attention and fanfare at the conferences and summits we attend (more on the recent User’s Summit hosted by Scottrade in an upcoming post). How We See Affects…
Read MoreWeekend Reading: Trading Routines of a Skilled Market Veteran
A great read this weekend is the Charles Kirk interview in the recent issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities. Kirk is an excellent resource to tap as someone who describes what he’s doing in the market and how he trades opportunities without selling it like a stock picking newsletter. He is most famous…
Read MoreHow My Trading Improved Thinking Like a Martial Arts Fighter
Bang! Bang! Oof! Ouch! These aren’t the sounds from a day in the market, it’s the sounds of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) which is quickly becoming one of the fastest growing sports in the world. I’m a big fan of not only the incredible action in the ring, but the mental chess that’s played in…
Read MoreAutomation, OddsMaker, and Expectations: Lessons Learned so Far
We are not only software makers, we are our own Guinea pigs (kinda like those hairclub companies). Fully automated trading recently arrived to the suite of Trade-Ideas tools. We do this by first implementing a strategy created and backtested via The OddsMaker. Then we execute the strategy rolling forward via an API (Application Programming Interface)…
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