Trade-Ideas In Your Town: Chicagoland

By Rodrigo | February 28, 2007

Last week we announced the dates of our 2nd annual Trade-Ideas user’s conference we call the Learning Curve Seminar: June 19-20th in downtown San Diego, CA. If you can’t make it there for those dates, come and visit us during the upcoming Scottrade ELITE User’s Summit scheduled for Saturday, March 24 in Chicago, IL. The…

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Daily Ticks: P&L Management

By Rodrigo | February 27, 2007

One item that’s got our attention today: it is Dr. Brett Steenbarger’s column from over the weekend regarding his series on trading Best Practices. In the article Brett considers one practice used by new traders (about eliminating emotion) we’ve seen put to good use in offices across the country. P&L Management: A Best Practice in…

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Strategy Session: Persistent Strong Closes

By Rodrigo | February 21, 2007

Let’s leave it up to good karma that after reading today’s post from Dr. Brett Steenbarger, “Persistent Strong Closes: The Personality of This Stock Market“, I field an interesting support IM (Note: list of support IMs here) from “a Brooklyn Trader” that produces a good strategy based on Brett’s observations – a Strategy Session we…

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A Best Practice in Trading Using Trade-Ideas

By Rodrigo | February 20, 2007

My goodness we have a lot to share with you this week (including new feature announcements, Expo updates, articles, etc.) and we are already behind – it being Tuesday! Let’s start with a big thank you for the informative article Dr. Brett Steenbarger wrote on Saturday, Stock Screening for Index Traders: A Best Practice in…

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Everyone Ought to Know Its the Death of Scalping – Part One

By Rodrigo | February 11, 2007

Today we start a 3-part series that draws the trendline on the art of trading itself. Specifically we’ll share why scalping as the veterans know it is over and how the rebirth of day trading leverages technology and accessible information to put the individual trader on the same footing as any hedge fund manager. The…

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Who Wants to Listen In on a Great Traders’ Conversation?

By Rodrigo | February 8, 2007

Can’t make it to New York for the Traders Expo in February? Take advantage of being there online for the following FREE Webcast Event Featuring: Dan Mirkin, Senior Managing Partner, Trade Ideas LLCLIVE from The Traders Expo New York “When Trading Styles Collide: Technicians and Fundamentalists Go Head-To-Head“ Monday, February 19, 2007, 8:00 am-9:30 am…

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Answer to the Most Frequently Asked Question

By Rodrigo | February 4, 2007

Are the conditions in Trade-Ideas combined with an “and” or an “or”?Different parts of the alert window are combined in different ways? Each alert type is combined with an or. If you select multiple alert types, you will see stocks matching the criteria of any one or more of the alert types. For example, if…

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15 Seconds to Grab Your Inner Trader’s Attention

By Rodrigo | February 2, 2007

Any faster and you’ll miss it. In the spirit of this weekend’s Super Bowl featuring football, food, and especially better than average commercials, we share with you the debut of Trade-Ideas in its tightly integrated form with Scottrade ELITE, the active trading platform of our partners, Scottrade, Inc. “Opportunities Hide, We Seek – Scottrade Trade-Ideas“…

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2 Elements of Good Backtesting Results

By Rodrigo | January 10, 2007

We’re not the only ones on the subject of backtesting in the new year. Today Price Headley points to the benefits on a trader’s psychology and confidence of backtesting and helps frame how a trader should evaluate the system to which s/he is about to commit capital (thanks TraderMike): How will your system react to…

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