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What the Retail Brokers are Buying May Not Be What’s Served to Active Traders
TD Ameritrade purchased another technology platform company, after it recently bought QuoteTracker. This company is called Crontech, they make a front end called “Stock Watch Pro” which TD Ameritrade is renaming into Strategy Desk (Note: the rest of our review of this software appears in the first comment to this post). Surprisingly the product, Stock…
Read MoreNetvibes Trade-Ideas Screener Module
Anybody use netvibes? TraderMike explained how he uses this homepage-maker awhile back. I think that’s how I came to use it. Think of it as Bloglines meets My Yahoo meets FireFox tabbed-browsing and you’ll get a good idea what it’s all about. TraderMike even created a sample homepage that already brings together good sources a…
Read MoreYou Don’t Have to See the Future, to Know We’ll Be Watching These Markets One Day
A fascinating short video details what may be coming around the corner for the world markets. Let’s just say that Trade-Ideas will one day include the Brazilian, Russian, Indian, and Chinese equity markets. Here’s the picture Goldman Sachs sees: Over the next 50 years, Brazil, Russia, India and China–the BRICs economies– could become a much…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas Releases Version 2.0 with The Odds Maker
Subscribers asked us to add key features such as saving multiple layouts and automatic notification of future versions. We in turn added a powerful new add-on tool called The Odds Maker that we’re certain will delight those who try it. Version 2.0 enables you to make better trades and manage your risk. As of today…
Read MoreTruer Words Were Never … Pt. 5
As part of an occasional series of great approaches to trading, written by fellow traders/bloggers, here is a series we call “Truer Words“. The articles discuss topics of trading which include: emotional intelligence, trading journals (especially, but not limited to, the ones that document benefits of using Trade-Ideas), size management, P/L performance, and many other…
Read MoreJunkin’ 30 Minute Opening Range Breakouts
I got my wife’s ring professionally cleaned by the same merchant who sold it to me in the Diamond Exchange off of Times Square during my recent visit. (Let me know if you would like his contact info – a great jeweler.) The cleaner removed 5 years of crud and transformed it once again to…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Take Advantage of Other Traders’ Fears
“Greed for a lack of a better word is good.” — Gordon Gecko, Wall Street (1987), Director: Oliver Stone Change greed to fear and we get an equally motivating factor in others that can mean big opportunity. Fear is good because it kicks in among people who panic the self preservation instinct that we as…
Read MoreJoe Bloggs of Trading
Before the Blogosphere there was Joe Bloggs. For those of you who remember taking standardized tests to get into college (SAT or ACT) Joe Bloggs is the name of the average American student. He’s not an idiot and he’s not a genius, he’s just average. On the SAT he scores exactly what the average American…
Read More10 Trading Commandments – Who Can Follow Them?
The 10 Trading Commandments written by Minyanville’s Todd Harrison and served by TheKirkReport will improve your trading if followed – it’s that simple. HOWEVER Our question is, Can the commandments be followed? Sun Tzu says, “Know they enemy”. We say “Know Yourself”. Experience painfully teaches traders that they are their own worst enemy. So it…
Read MoreCustom Scans To Go?
It’s day 3 since we added the Custom Scan feature to our free Stock Research section of the website. Thanks to TraderMike, FallonD, Dr. Brett Steenbarger, theKirkReport, and several others for helping to spread the word. A lot of people are kicking the tires! One quick helpful tip to mention (we’ll add some additional help…
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