Posts Tagged ‘trading’
Resources to Get You Over the Learning Curve
Recent question posted in our support forum: New Scottrade User – Is there a newbie’s guide to this very powerful tool? A simple way to scan for volume surges, volatility, and trending?I am frankly overwhelmed by the options here. Thanks. Our Answer: Good question. There are alot of places to start. Here’s a list: The…
Read MoreRoundUp of the Best Headlines – 2007
It’s been a year of tremendous growth and innovation at Trade-Ideas. You can see what’s been added in a snapshot timeline by following this What’s New link – you may have missed something that could help your trading even more! Thanks to our dear readers our blog gets more visits each week (even if we’ve…
Read MoreHow the Rubberband Man Improved Automated Trading
Market Orders?! Automated trading functionality introduced by Trade-Ideas only had market orders for initiating and covering positions. Market orders?! The first version of the software was more proof of concept than anything else. That’s why the ones using it were kept to a bare minimum. Much is about to change. After analyzing trader feedback and…
Read MoreTrade More Profitably: 9 Effective (and Slightly Badass) Ways to Just Do It
Whoa! We’re alive! It seems the booze and turkey from Thanksgiving knocked the lights out on the blog for a bit. We’re back and in a market that still acts like the other shoe is going to fall. In fact with a Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times survey now saying Americans are expecting a recession within a…
Read MoreThis Test Measures Trading Signals: S.M.A.R.T.
We don’t create alerts unless we know they’re helpful at spotting opportunity for traders. In fact we are now known for removing alerts when market rules change and render some events insignificant. You can rely on us to keep an ever evolving list of relevant, useful, S.M.A.R.T. alerts. I explain what that means by describing…
Read MoreYour Best Trades: It’s Not What You See, But How You See It
The Smallest Change in Graphics Affect the Success of a Trading Plan We introduced version 2.1 of Trade-Ideas PRO back in May. The ‘Flip’ feature receives the most attention and fanfare at the conferences and summits we attend (more on the recent User’s Summit hosted by Scottrade in an upcoming post). How We See Affects…
Read MoreWeekend Reading: Trading Routines of a Skilled Market Veteran
A great read this weekend is the Charles Kirk interview in the recent issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities. Kirk is an excellent resource to tap as someone who describes what he’s doing in the market and how he trades opportunities without selling it like a stock picking newsletter. He is most famous…
Read MoreHow My Trading Improved Thinking Like a Martial Arts Fighter
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…
Read MoreAutomation, OddsMaker, and Expectations: Lessons Learned so Far
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)…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas and Market Exchange Entitlements: Cross T’s and Dot I’s
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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