How My Trading Improved Thinking Like a Martial Arts Fighter

By Rodrigo | October 4, 2007

Bang! Bang! Oof! Ouch! These aren’t the sounds from a day in the market, it’s the sounds of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) which is quickly becoming one of the fastest growing sports in the world. I’m a big fan of not only the incredible action in the ring, but the mental chess that’s played in…

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Automation, OddsMaker, and Expectations: Lessons Learned so Far

By Rodrigo | October 1, 2007

We are not only software makers, we are our own Guinea pigs (kinda like those hairclub companies). Fully automated trading recently arrived to the suite of Trade-Ideas tools. We do this by first implementing a strategy created and backtested via The OddsMaker. Then we execute the strategy rolling forward via an API (Application Programming Interface)…

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Trade-Ideas and Market Exchange Entitlements: Cross T’s and Dot I’s

By Rodrigo | September 27, 2007

Trade-Ideas, at the behest of the market exchanges, requires its customers to electronically sign a simple agreement form. This explains why our customers recently received the following email from our own Brad Williams: Dear David, Thank you for subscribing to Trade-Ideas. Our records indicate you have not yet completed the NYSE and AMEX Exchange Agreement…

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From Trade-Ideas to Vacation Ideas

By Rodrigo | September 20, 2007

Some traders, like Trader Mike, are sharing amazing photos of their recent trips to exotic ports of call. This inspired me to do the same. We recently celebrated the birth of our second child so we stayed local this summer. However we did a trip to Morocco last year and the photos from that trip…

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I Bet My Personal Trading Volatility Is Higher Than Yours

By Rodrigo | August 28, 2007

Volatility says in a sense, that what moves up also moves down. Here’s how we define it technically as it applies to our real-time statistical analysis: Definition of technical volatility A resourceful trader knows his/her prey and can identify a stock’s natural volatility so that a natural wiggle doesn’t automatically hit a stop order (See…

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What Your Broker Doesn’t Know, Will Reassure You

By Rodrigo | August 21, 2007

More than a Chinese Wall, Your Trading Secrets are SafeEmails and message board posts mentioned recently a fear that when it comes to automating a trader’s trading strategies, their broker can either: See your strategies Trade against them Front run them or some combination thereof In terms of the Trade-Ideas Automated Trading Bot (ATB) we…

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14 Questions and 1 Invite for Automated Trading

By Rodrigo | August 1, 2007

More on the Automated Trading Pilot with OptionsXpressTrade-Ideas and OptionsXpress now offer fully automated equities trading to OptionsXpress customers. This offering is part of a pilot program that features the availability of a suite of tools at no cost to participants for the 3-month pilot. Please note: a subscription to Trade-Ideas PRO paid by participants…

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Strategy Examples of 10 Trading Principles

By Rodrigo | July 13, 2007

What a prize. I don’t have the occasion to tie in as many revelant, organized links from our content as I do today. Yesterday Dr. Brett Steenbarger of TraderFeed put together a list of 10 Principles of Short-Term Trading. Notice how articulate Dr. Brett is with his plain English description of ideal trading patterns? Quite…

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4 Steps to Get the Jargon Out of Your Strategy

By Rodrigo | July 12, 2007

We were recently asked by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine (a review of our event-based backtesting tool The Odds Maker appears in the July 2007 issue) what’s the biggest stumbling block faced by new users when trying to work with The Odds Maker. We answer the question below. How Jargon Harms Learning The…

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