Posts Tagged ‘trade ideas’
Automation, 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)…
Read MoreNever Too Late to Praise Accomplishments
You might think you’re alone on the battlefield engaging the market. It’s not true. There are many who work to support your efforts either indirectly (like your broker, your technology – including Trade-Ideas for example) or directly (like a mentor, spouse, or fellow trader). The people closest to you especially deserve your appreciation – not…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas and Market Exchange Entitlements: Cross T’s and Dot I’s
Trade-Ideas, at the behest of the market exchanges, requires its customers to electronically sign a simple agreement form. This explains why our customers recently received the following email from our own Brad Williams: Dear David, Thank you for subscribing to Trade-Ideas. Our records indicate you have not yet completed the NYSE and AMEX Exchange Agreement…
Read MorePoker Odds and Professional Trading
There is no doubt in my mind that the skills to succeed in poker are the same skills to succeed in trading. Unfortunately most people approach trading differently and in a way that opens them up to losses and eventual failure. Is your hand worth playing? In poker understanding the odds of your hand determines…
Read MoreHow Trade-Ideas Displays Time: Time & Sales Comparisons
Occasionally a customer pushes the Trade-Ideas tools in a new way and/or reveals another small piece of functionality. The other day we received an email about how we display time in Trade-Ideas PRO. This is a feature that has existed for a while, but it’s hard to use. We plan to add this to the…
Read MorePR Pitfalls to Avoid from a Hedge Fund Manager
Trader Monthly’s contribution to my regular diet of news and information comes not via the magazine but its daily email of articles – often from other sources but with a concise summary and witty tilt all their own. Occasionally their own articles make the cut – especially last Friday’s article about a hedge fund manager’s…
Read MoreUsing Scans to Test Market Activity
We still have Dan in Hawaii running a half marathon (we’ll need some proof!) and hanging out, but it’s been too long a break and the markets decided to do something this week. Let’s look at the market activity through a Trade-Ideas lens that features many of our free customizable scans and develop some different…
Read MoreI Bet My Personal Trading Volatility Is Higher Than Yours
Volatility says in a sense, that what moves up also moves down. Here’s how we define it technically as it applies to our real-time statistical analysis: Definition of technical volatility A resourceful trader knows his/her prey and can identify a stock’s natural volatility so that a natural wiggle doesn’t automatically hit a stop order (See…
Read MoreWhat Your Broker Doesn’t Know, Will Reassure You
More than a Chinese Wall, Your Trading Secrets are SafeEmails and message board posts mentioned recently a fear that when it comes to automating a trader’s trading strategies, their broker can either: See your strategies Trade against them Front run them or some combination thereof In terms of the Trade-Ideas Automated Trading Bot (ATB) we…
Read MoreKnow Your Enemy
“Know your enemy. You’re at war. They outgun you. In head-on combat, odds are against you. You must redefine the rules of engagement. Go into the shadows, yours. Never play by their rules, on their battlefield. Fight an asymmetrical war with the insurgent’s tactics. Play your game, by your rules. You must decide. Fight your…
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