StockTickr and Trade-Ideas:

The life of a trader can be a solitary one against the market. Many belong to forums/chat to swap trading tips or simply participate in the sense of community. Now there’s a new innovation from StockTickr and Trade-Ideas fueling the trend towards networking among traders. On the heels of a recent WSJ article discussing this…

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2007 Stock Market Holidays

2007 Stock Market Holidays New Year’s Day January 1, 2007 Tribute to former US President Gerald Ford January 2, 2007 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day January 15, 2007 Washington’s Birthday (Presidents’ Day) February 19, 2007 Good Friday April 6, 2007 Memorial Day May 28, 2007 Independence Day July 4, 2007 Labor Day September 3, 2007…

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What else is there to do this weekend? Trade-Ideas Contest

The response to our strategy contest and IPod giveaway is underwhelming. If you thought you’d pass on this contest due to the low odds of actually winning (given the large number of contestant entries), I can assure you this is not the case. Your odds of winning one of these 3 prizes is very high…

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Top and Bottom Performing Stocks: Year to Date 2006

The lists below highlight the best and worst performing stocks traded on the U.S. exchanges year to date with at an average daily volume of 500,000 shares/day. There is also a list of stocks that follow a “rule of 3”: Stocks that are at least 3% above their 200, 50, and 20 day Moving Average…

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When Subscribers Talk: Listen and Deliver

This month marks the end of the second year of this blog. Our first post was in December of 2004. In recognition of this milestone it’s only appropriate that I share with you the details of several new filters that will be operational early next week. After all, these new features and improvements to Trade-Ideas,…

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2006 Prizes: IPods and Ideas: A Trade-Ideas Contest

It’s the holiday season and I’m in a giving and sharing mood. So let’s give away some goodies and share our readers’ favorite Trade-Ideas set-ups. We’ll use The Odds Maker to judge whose strategy is winning the most in this market. Here is the prizebag: The Goodies* 1st prize: 1 IPod Nano (4GB, your choice…

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Daily Ticks: Footprints, Widgets, and MA Crossovers

A list of what’s got our attention today: FallonD uses the latest Trade-Ideas Custom Scan widget to replicate the Base scan he uses to select stocks Our latest sponsor is SFO magazine which publishes a free daily newsletter on the markets. They do an excellent job of covering larger sector and national themes in play…

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Strategy Session: Take Your Trading to New Depths

A recent conversation on EliteTrader featured an interesting strategy with which I decide to experiment. It’s based on an analogy that Dr. Brett Steenbarger and I discussed awhile ago and one that wound up in his recent book, Enhancing Trader Performance (Wiley, 2007) pg. 147 “If the sea life at a particular market depth is…

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