Posts Tagged ‘trading’
From Trade-Ideas to Vacation Ideas
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…
Read MoreI Bet My Personal Trading Volatility Is Higher Than Yours
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…
Read MoreWhat Your Broker Doesn’t Know, Will Reassure You
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…
Read More14 Questions and 1 Invite for Automated Trading
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…
Read MoreUse the Latest Trade-Ideas Automated Trading Tools for Free – Deep Dish Style
I just came back from Chicago with some good news for everyone. First if haven’t experienced Chicago in the summer, the good news is you’re guaranteed a fun, good time – no matter who’s paying the bar tab. Second as I mentioned in an earlier post, we are moving forward with optionsXpress to build an…
Read MoreStrategy Examples of 10 Trading Principles
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…
Read More4 Steps to Get the Jargon Out of Your Strategy
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…
Read MoreWhat to Do When You’re Suspicious of Low Volume Rises in the Market
TraderMike’s commentary on the markets yesterday included this observation, “I’m always suspicious of low volume rises and this time is no different, especially for the S&P 500 which has been making lower highs and lower lows for the last month or so.” I agree. In fact we’ve created a couple of strategies in Trade-Ideas that…
Read MoreA Nation of Laws, Not Men – Good Idea for a Trading Plan
On this Independence Day it’s important to remember one of the most important differentiating characteristics of our nation from others past and present: We are a nation of laws, not men. We celebrate the fourth in my mind as reminder that our freedoms rest not on the whims of one man’s behavior but on laws…
Read MorePlay Both Sides of the Fed Decision
In light of the Fed decision, I am posting links to some of our previous Strategy Sessions that work best when the market is about to absorb key information: The Fed Watcher – uses the unusual number of prints trigger to pinpoint key activity and incorporates some advice dished by TheKirkReport and Toni Hansen; the…
Read More