Posts Tagged ‘trading’
Add Some Fizz to ‘Your Natural Thirst for Learning’
Thanks to Trader Mike for finding this excellent list of How to Fail As a Trader in 10 Easy Steps. #4 should be #1: 4 Look for the right system [the Holy Grail]. Rather than gaining an understanding, search for the killer trading system – it is out there and it will make you rich…
Read MoreA Showcase of Technology & Education: DTI’s Open House with Trade-Ideas
Tom Busby, a gentlemen so genuine they could name a beer after him, invites Trade-Ideas to present an interactive presentation and discussion with potential and existing customers of his firm, DTI Trader.com this Wednesday (tomorrow). I want to give you the heads up that it is free to attend and participate in the online, interactive…
Read MoreOnline Trading Journals: This Innovator Tells You How He Lives to Trade Another Day
An online trading journal is like a CSI team picking apart your trading crime scene. When maintained and reviewed it gets easy to spot what works and what doesn’t. Even more important are the correlations you can spot as to reasons why trading results fail to live up to expectations. For example a trading journal…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas Releases Beta of v2.1 with Plenty of New Features
Spring, despite the ugly Nor’easter’s effect on baseball’s schedule, is sprung. We celebrate with the release of a new BETA version and upgrade called Trade Ideas PRO v2.1. https://trade-ideas.54solutions.com/Samples/Setup_2_0_12_Beta.exe We reward readers of this blog with a special invitation to beta-test Trade-Ideas Pro Version 2.1 ahead of other subscribers and its formal release sometime in…
Read MoreStocks Up Exactly 8 Days
From TickerSense yesterday: “This is just the 64th time since 1900 that the DJIA has been up 8 days in a row … The last time the Index had an 8-day winning streak was in March of 2002.” I’m not suggesting a correlation between the DJIA and the following lists of stocks, but to carry…
Read More2 Trader Takeaways from February’s Market Drop
The market gapped down and fell more than 400 points on February 27, 2007 marking the largest drop since the September 2001 attacks. While the press and pundits analyzed the fall from many angles, there’s been a paucity of comments regarding lessons learned from a traders’ perspective. Here’s our take that combines risk management technology…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Finding Consolidation Breakouts
Question from IM Support today: Subscriber: (3:47:59 PM): do you have any scans for setups that have like a 30 day high, then consolidates for about 5 days and then breaks out of that consolidation? Some of the details of his request are changed to protect his idea. The tricky part of this request is…
Read MoreOne Way to Win It All on CNBC
I am in it to win it – the CNBC Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge. I got hooked. Since Thursday I’ve been in Chicagoland making plans with new partners and a presentation for Scottrade’s User Summit. One of my visits took me to the offices of Kingstree Trading LLC to see Charles McElveen, its gracious and…
Read MoreIs Time Your Friend or Foe?
Our Chief Technician is a man of few words but many strong opinions. With Spring in the air he’s focused on one area that needs some cleaning up. A few people have reported trouble with the time in Trade-Ideas recently. This was caused by the recent changes to the rules for Daylight Savings Time. If…
Read MoreBrokers Better Know This If They Want to Keep You
A majority of customers expect to change brokers within the next 6 months. In fact 2007 may be know as the “Year of the Switch“. That’s the premise of an eye-opening article published over the weekend from the Aite Group LLC, “What Really Matters to Retail Consumers of Online Brokerage? Who They Are and What…
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