Trade-Ideas in Your Town: NY and ATL

Busy rest of the week with travel. I am headed to New York for the next 2 days to meet with several trading organizations looking to use Trade-Ideas. If you are in NY, dear reader, and would like to meet up, please let me know in the comments. I’ll tell you everything we plan for…

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Stocks Fit Enough for a Comeback

I call this custom scan from our free Research Center, “Quality Stocks Down the Most from the 50-Day Moving Average“. My latest definition of a quality stock is one that is still in the top half of its range for the year. These stocks took a hit but still have their collective necks above the…

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The Traders Expo Welcomes Trade-Ideas and the 2nd Annual LCS

We’ve changed the dates and format of the Trade-Ideas 2nd Annual Learning Curve Seminar! Yesterday I conferenced with Dan Mirkin and our superb event coordinator, Heather, to plan our annual user’s conference set for June. We expected to follow the same format that succeeded so well last year: a June conference in San Diego at…

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To Clear a Trader’s Head: Just Flip It

On the topic of Perspective: Lady Astor: “If I were your wife, I would poison your coffee.”Winston Churchill: “If you were my wife, I would drink it.” Captain Kirk reveals a great technique for changing one’s perspective that eliminates opinions and sticks to strict objectiveness in trading decisions: flip the chart. Flip the chart and…

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What’s Above the 20 Day SMA and Up 5 Days?

Not everything went off a cliff this week. Some stocks are still above their 20 day moving average and are up each day of the week (as of Thursday’s close). TickerSense points out it’s important to look for stocks that weather the storm rather than what got hit hardest. So here is a custom scan…

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Trade-Ideas In Your Town: Chicagoland

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

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

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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