Following This Bear Swing Set-Up Netted a 84% Win Rate

Improved OddsMaker Models Swing Trades Noticed anything?  We changed The OddsMaker by expanding the range of the backtest and introducing longer hold times with which to model trading rules.  The details of the enhancements are in the User’s Guide.  This post demonstrates via an example strategy how the changes improve the universe of possible trading…

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Scans that Feed the Bulls & Bears on FOX Biz

This post is for @TALENTED BLONDE who posted on Twitter this morning,  http://twitter.com/TALENTEDBLONDE/status/1300271000 I decided to feed her a possible storyline for this afternoon, developed by interacting with the StockTwits crowd the last couple of days. It goes like this version of a Harper’s Index: (Data as of 1:50pm EST, Mar. 9, 2009) Number of…

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Your Trading Plan Benefits from My Visit to the NYC Traders Expo

Our news is your news.  What’s happened over the past week at Trade-Ideas can impact your trading plan, how you use Trade-Ideas PRO and its tools, or at least give you a new place from which to gather great market insight and a continuing trader’s education.   NYC Traders EXPO: 2 Surprises I came away…

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Add a Service: Who to Bring into the Fold

At the San Diego meetings I pitched that Trade-Ideas could add a partner’s service that would appear as an additional alert offering within Trade-Ideas PRO. This got a positive reception and now it’s something I want to pursue. However as partnerships go, some partners start and stop themselves, so in an effort to keep the…

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How to Short $BAC All Over Again. Watch History Repeat.

The headlines sound an omnious alarm: “Bank of America tumbles on nationalization worries” (Reuters, February 4, 2009) BAC continues to take it on the chin: teetering on bankruptcy, government bail out yada yada yada.  If you shorted this ride – congratulations.  But is the ride over? Maybe there is more opportunity yet to find in…

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2 Key Tactics to Know When Making Any Trading Transition

Avoid Getting Lost in Translation It is very easy to get excited about systems test results. We have fallen victim to that problem ourselves as we spend more time working with traders who have gone to automation. What happens and more importantly what do you do when your system is not performing as well as…

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Trade-Ideas In Your Town: San Diego, Annual Partners Meeting

I am headed to San Diego Friday away from some miserable weather all along the East coast for our annual Partners Meeting.  The other partners and our staff don’t have far to travel as they live in the coastal towns just north of the city. I have to hike it from Atlanta, GA.  As a result…

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Strategy-Session: 2 Patterns You Want to See As They Happen

I mentioned in yesterday’s post that a bunch of traders gathered online to see and hear my present how Trade-Ideas PRO can model any pattern.   They let me have it. I took almost 20 descriptions 30 minutes before the presentation began and picked 3 to model and walk everyone through the process of modeling…

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5 Modeling Techniques of Any Decision Support Tool

TodayI gave about 250+ traders from VCM (Velez Capital Management) a chance to get personal questions answered and see first hand how the platform performs in the hands of its custodians (me). I want to share with you the essentials of what I presented to them; namely, what challenges Trade-Ideas resolves for traders and what…

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