Your 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…

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Two 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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Trade-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…

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One 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,…

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Partners 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…

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Strategy 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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Dark 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…

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Interview 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…

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Learn 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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