Posts Tagged ‘trading’
Holiday Reflection
Celebrating Thanksgiving at Trade Ideas means reflecting on many things – like our loyal customers. Over 50K in over 75 countries around the world. Wow. With us since 2002. In what seems like a blink of an eye nine years has come and gone. I recall our first Trader’s Expo in 2003 in Las Vegas…
Read More5 Modeling Techniques of Any Decision Support Tool
TodayI gave about 250+ traders from VCM (Velez Capital Management) a chance to get personal questions answered and see first hand how the platform performs in the hands of its custodians (me). I want to share with you the essentials of what I presented to them; namely, what challenges Trade-Ideas resolves for traders and what…
Read MoreComing Back? Returning Traders Guide to Trade-Ideas
“Yeah we tease him alot cuz we got him on the spot, welcome back. Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.” Welcome Back Kotter Theme Song Often Trade-Ideas and our subscribers resemble the local neighborhood bar. The locals there everyday collecting their mail. The casual drifters. The frequent regulars. Many start as one type of customer and…
Read MoreRecap of Last 4 Articles Appearing in Tech. Analysis of Stocks & Commodities
The latest issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities arrived the other day. Trade-Ideas contributes an article to their widely read section, “Traders’ Tips“, which showcases a particluar article that month and allows various vendors to be inspired how they might model such a strategy in their application. One of the reasons I like…
Read MoreHow to Trade Without a Market Bias: Lesson from a Green P&L
The latest videos from Thursday, December 4th and Friday, December 5th are posted on the Trade-Ideas YouTube Channel. Each day took a different path on its way to a profitable P&L. Our approach with the automation is to use 3 Long strategies and 3 Short strategies (not necessarily the flip of the other). These strategies…
Read MoreWalk, Chew Gum, and Trade Ideas: Introducing Mobile Trade-Ideas
Mobile Trade-Ideas is here. We first mentioned our work on Mobile Trade-Ideas back in June thinking this would be a good application for the 3G iPhone which just rolled out. Now we have Google/T-Mobile G1 so it’s time to make Mobile Trade-Ideas available. What makes Mobile Trade-Ideas appropriate for the smartphone set is something as universal…
Read MoreIt Feels Like Animal Farm
George Orwell writes how the animals rose up against their human oppressors and took over the farm. However it was soon evident that once they were in power, not all animals were created equal. Some animals were more privileged than others. It seems that Wall Street and Main Street have a case of Animal Farm-itis.…
Read MoreYour 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…
Read MoreThe 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 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…
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