Posts Tagged ‘trade ideas’
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:…
Read MorePut 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…
Read MoreInstitutional 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…
Read MoreYour 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…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas ‘Fundamentally’ Changed: Why It’ll Never Be the Same
Change is good. Especially the incremental improvement change work we do to Trade-Ideas on a constant basis. For those of you who are new and see the large inventory of alerts and filters – sorry. The list is long but well organized and only meant to appeal to the wide variety of traders and trading…
Read MoreCustomers Talking, Trade-Ideas Listening: Upcoming Features
We are making continued additions and improvements to our service. In the spirit of the summer movies, below are the upcoming attractions to the Trade-Ideas PRO platform: Coming Very Soon: Wide Range Bar Wide range bar (WRB): The range of the bar is much greater than the average bar. This alert, recommended by one of…
Read MoreThe Zig-Zag Method for Trading Profitably and Maintaining an Edge Forever
I’ve never seen such an avalanche of ad campaigning for a single week of TV programming: it’s Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. If you’ve been to New York anytime over the last 4 weeks, you’ve been flooded with all forms of print ads everywhere. It’s so saturated that all the shows that tape in…
Read MoreMarkets Don’t Fit Your Trading Style? Engage with Better Odds of Winning
Our audience for the blog consists mainly of potential customers, returning customers, and existing subscribers. Really informed traders come here for market insight and working strategies that we model in a category of posts called, Strategy Sessions. A lot of product information and other nuggets appear here on the blog first. Occasionally however we actually…
Read MoreNew Alerts from Trade-Ideas Create Opportunity with NYSE Imbalances
Trade-Ideas expands the list of alerts with a unique NYSE-only alert related to buy and sell imbalances. What’s an imbalance and why is it only on the NYSE? The NYSE imbalance alerts only happen near the end of the trading day. These are based on the specialist’s market on close orders. If there are more…
Read MoreTwo Different Make-overs on the Virtual Trading Floor Will Impact Your Trading
Quick AssessmentAre you taking advantage of internet communications to speak/talk/converse with other traders of significantly more experience on a regular basis? If you are not a “Jedi” master trader, where are you getting additional, one-on-one help? Who is enabling you to achieve better insight into your trading?How does ongoing training and/or lessons learned in trading…
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