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Be Prepared for Tomorrow’s Fed Decision
In light of tomorrow’s 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 MoreDaily Ticks: Ugly Wii TV
A list of what’s got our attention today: Read Ugly’s progress on his creative, quixotic quest to barter and trade his way to one share of Berkshire Hathaway stock. He’s got a 1-year subscription to Trade-Ideas on the block (valued at $495 but worth so much more!). Everyone check your eBay listings and see if…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas In Your Town: New York City
Trade-Ideas heads to New York City for the annual Traders Expo event held this year at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. The event begins Saturday, February 17th and ends Tuesday, February 20th. Here is a rough schedule of Trade-Ideas appearances at the conference: Sunday, Feb. 18th: 9:00 AM EST – until? Exhibit Hall: Scottrade…
Read MoreFree Trade-Ideas Research Now Embedded in StockTickr
StockTickr, the social networking site for traders’ stock picks, continues to make improvements to its free service with the addition of free Stock Research reports from Trade-Ideas. This follows a recent successful collaboration with Trade-Ideas for StockTickr’s PRO service. Trade-Ideas joins the comprehensive list of additonal resources displayed with all stock symbols mentioned on the…
Read MoreDaily Ticks: Meet the Real Odds Maker
A list of what’s got our attention today: WallStrip, “Stock Tips For Generation YouTube”, reviewed favorably in Newsweek – no, wait – Businessweek! We’re big fans of their version of Wall-ywood. NR7s Provide Market Clues – Online Stock Trading spots what items exhibited this pattern recently. If MrMike only knew about the free scan we…
Read MoreResults of the Trade-Ideas Contest
Our Trade-Ideas contest results are in! Honestly I thought the response was kind of low – I can count the entries on fingers and toes. However this made for some high odds of winning! The Odds Maker judged the results using this criteria and produced our 3 winners. Please note only 2nd and 3rd place…
Read MoreOptimize Expectancy with Volatility-Adjusted Targets
This is the 4th installment of our series on trading with a backtested system. The series uses the features of The Odds Maker in its examples, but the lessons apply to any tool a trader employs for backtesting as well as many approaches to trading. Today we focus on taking and holding a position and…
Read MoreThe 2 x 2 Decision Box for Determining a Good Trading System
I’ve been caught red-handed with a smaller picture for evaluating a good trading system that excluded other, equally valid possibilities. Yesterday I wrote about two key elements every successful trading system has and then provided benchmark values as a sort of standard to judge everything. John Forman correctly described in his article today an alternate…
Read MoreAAPL and the I-Phone – Take a Look
OK. News of the Apple I-Phone broke today by none other than Steve Jobs who thinks they’ll sell 10 million by 2008. Too low? Too high? Anyone ever serious think about trading from a cell phone before? Should we put Trade-Ideas on this? Here’s our report on AAPL’s technicals. Pretty slick at just 11.6mm thick,…
Read MoreTrading with The Odds Maker in 5 Steps
‘- Or without it in 10. Trade-Ideas is on the road again today performing a dog and pony show on The Odds Maker for one of our large customers and their trading desk. The goal for the visit is to do some personal demonstrations and hand-holding on how to trade using The Odds Maker. Great.…
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