Posts Tagged ‘trade ideas’
Think You Know Where the Bottom or Top Is? These Scans Will Help Spot It
Bulls and Bears come to Trade-Ideas to place signposts that point to where certain stocks are headed – this is especially easy because much of the information is free and updated daily. Signposts are like road signs that help traders clue into which direction in which to trade. The more signposts a trader puts on…
Read MoreTo Clear a Trader’s Head: Just Flip It
On the topic of Perspective: Lady Astor: “If I were your wife, I would poison your coffee.”Winston Churchill: “If you were my wife, I would drink it.” Captain Kirk reveals a great technique for changing one’s perspective that eliminates opinions and sticks to strict objectiveness in trading decisions: flip the chart. Flip the chart and…
Read MoreWhat’s Above the 20 Day SMA and Up 5 Days?
Not everything went off a cliff this week. Some stocks are still above their 20 day moving average and are up each day of the week (as of Thursday’s close). TickerSense points out it’s important to look for stocks that weather the storm rather than what got hit hardest. So here is a custom scan…
Read MoreWhen Subscribers Talk: Don’t Stop til You Get Enough
The truth is – it’s never enough. Keeping customers talking about a product or service in a positive, constructive way means delivering on the features that customers ask for and fixing or changing what they dislike. Fortunately we keep the conversation ratio tilted to the positive. The 3 latest improvements to the service fall into…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas In Your Town: Chicagoland
Last week we announced the dates of our 2nd annual Trade-Ideas user’s conference we call the Learning Curve Seminar: June 19-20th in downtown San Diego, CA. If you can’t make it there for those dates, come and visit us during the upcoming Scottrade ELITE User’s Summit scheduled for Saturday, March 24 in Chicago, IL. The…
Read MoreDaily Ticks: P&L Management
One item that’s got our attention today: it is Dr. Brett Steenbarger’s column from over the weekend regarding his series on trading Best Practices. In the article Brett considers one practice used by new traders (about eliminating emotion) we’ve seen put to good use in offices across the country. P&L Management: A Best Practice in…
Read MoreInvite to the 2nd Annual Learning Curve Seminar: Ridding Opinions from Trading
UPDATE! New dates for the Trade-Ideas 2nd Annual Learning Curve Seminar! Now June 21 – 22! Read the full update HERE. The plans are set for the 2nd Annual Trade-Ideas Learning Curve Seminar this summer. It takes place (Ed. Note: NOW June 21-22) June 19-20th 2006 in San Diego, CA. This learning experience allows attendees…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Persistent Strong Closes
Let’s leave it up to good karma that after reading today’s post from Dr. Brett Steenbarger, “Persistent Strong Closes: The Personality of This Stock Market“, I field an interesting support IM (Note: list of support IMs here) from “a Brooklyn Trader” that produces a good strategy based on Brett’s observations – a Strategy Session we…
Read More2 Elements of Good Backtesting Results
We’re not the only ones on the subject of backtesting in the new year. Today Price Headley points to the benefits on a trader’s psychology and confidence of backtesting and helps frame how a trader should evaluate the system to which s/he is about to commit capital (thanks TraderMike): How will your system react to…
Read MoreOdds Maker versus TradeStation, Wealthlab, CyberTrader and Other
Since we launched the Odds Maker beta in September many have asked the question. Why are you guys so excited about back-testing? It has been around for a long time and other software products like TradeStation, Wealthlab, Metastock, and CyberTrader all have their own back-testing modules. What is the big deal? Here are the real…
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