Posts Tagged ‘trade ideas’
An Option Strategy That’s Working Now?
Summer. One of the contributors to this blog is off trying to climb a mountain. Good luck Dan! However that’s no excuse to stop writing – our customers certainly don’t stop the good support and strategy set-up questions. We therefore will recap some of the latest questions worthy of sharing – more in a series…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas Going Mobile?
It seems that since the introduction of the iPhone SDK, many innovative companies are racing to develop tools for the next iPhone in 3G coming out next month. E*TRADE also just released mobile trading capabilities exclusively for the Blackberry. Combine these events with Trade-Ideas’ new trading automation (with selected brokers), and we may be heralding…
Read MoreOne Trader’s Transition to Automated Trading: Insights for You
Dave Mabe is a trader first and entrepreneur addicted to trading second – my kind of fellow. Following his slow transformation from entirely discretionary trading to one that relies increasingly on automated trading fascinates anyone reading his posts on the subject. He describes a path whose benefits include, among others, less time behind the computer,…
Read MorePartners Know Powerful Tools When They See It
Hopefully you like Trade-Ideas. You, dear reader, are either a subscriber or you’re in the research and investigation process – trying to decide if you should pull the trigger. Let’s help you with the due diligence and your decision. If you are already a subscriber, I’ve got some ways you can benefit too. A Receipe…
Read MoreChecking In with The Doctor: Memorial Wknd Reading
There’s a couple of good articles over at TraderFeed, Dr. Bret Steenbarger’s widely read and essential blog for the self-improving trader. Both articles compliment each other: one post discusses a checklist of elements to consider when making a transition from one trading style to another (make sure to read the helpful reader comments too). The…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Find the Move During the Pause that Refreshes
I received a good question from our support forum that I want to repeat here. It’s a simple request about how to model a pattern that this customer wants to see in the market. Question: Stocks Taking a Breather What filters or alerts can I use to finds stocks that are, “taking a breather“?I.e. it…
Read MoreDark Pools Looking More Like the Kiddie Pool: Shallow and Smelly
2 interesting articles this week from WSJ and Reuters on the untamed and unaccountable dark pools in the market. What are dark pools? The WSJ defines them as “the secretive electronic trading networks that match buyers and sellers anonymously.” These trades are done outside of the traditional stock markets like the NYSE and NASDAQ. The…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Automation for Swing Trades
The fast paced world of trading excites us – buyers vs. sellers, large capitalized players vs smaller and quicker/nimble players, etc. However we at Trade-Ideas recognize that for many in the investing public, trading twenty or thirty times a day is a lot – completely alien. That’s why our tools are also made for longer-term…
Read MoreInterview with J. Hodge, Director of Education, Trade-Ideas
I am back from some good times in Chicago that included events for TD AMERITRADE and optionsXpress. There’s plenty new strategies and insights to tell you, but I want to bring to your attention this interview of Jamie Hodge, our Director of Trader Education and long-time trading veteran, by Dave Mabe of StockTickr.com. Interview with…
Read MoreLearn How to Trade the Breaking News on Fed Day
As a result of recently adding new filters and alerts to Trade-Ideas, I learned new tricks on helping others get their ideas from their head and into Trade-Ideas much more easily. Turns out the good folks at DTI and Tom Busby are providing a platform from which to discuss how we are using the new…
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