Posts Tagged ‘trade ideas’
The 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…
Read MoreAn 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…
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