Strategy Session: OOPS Swing Pattern

This strategy session revisits a set-up devised awhile ago that I’ve picked up again and revised to better model the intended strategy. The strategy comes from an interesting article, “The OOPS Pattern“, from http://www.guerillatradingnation.com/ – a site that features ‘proven strategies for small investors’. The author notes the following caveats: First you will only need…

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Scans: Know What’s Coming

The Bottom Line:Know in advance what the alert windows will show. That’s the benefit of our end-of-day scans. Description:We publish a series of free, end-of-day scans that are meant to attract new potential subscribers to our realtime service. However this information is helpful to more than potential subscribers, they can be used to great benefit…

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Special Invitation

If you are reading this and will be in Las Vegas the week of December 13th, we’d like to invite you to the Traders Expo (free attendance is available to those who register) and to a special happy-hour on Wednesday, December 14th, at the Paris Las Vegas. It is our way to express thanks to…

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Strategy Session: Dummies

Background:A few weeks ago a subscriber introduced me to “the Dummy” strategy and asked how it might be modeled in Trade-Ideas. The strategy is credited to a well known and respected trader and teacher called, Chairman MaoXian, who provides over a 100 examples of how the strategy was used to pull opportunity out of the…

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Happy Thanksgiving

We wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and urge everyone to walk off the big meal with a little exercise. I read an article today that says in addition to a little exercise, you can avoid the sleepy stupor after the meal by doing like the Europeans do … and drink during the meal. Here’s a…

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Service Interruption

Follow Up Message from Trade-Ideas:Dear Customers, The service outage that you experienced Tuesday was a result of a server shutdown in the early morning during our usual maintenance routine. The outage lasted as long as it did because our back up servers were offline for maintenance as we are moving to a newer and more…

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Scottrade Selects Trade-Ideas

An official press release is pending, but ScottradeELITE® traders are now more efficient predators in the market thanks to the integration of Trade-Ideas’ Idea Generation Technology (IGT). The official rollout begins after today’s closing bell. ST. LOUIS, MO and ENCINITAS, CA – Scottrade, a leading online brokerage, and Trade-Ideas, publishers of real-time, custom filtered market…

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Harrisdirect, Brown|Co Pilgrim?

Welcome to Trade-Ideas. Grab a chair and come to the table for a tool that delivers a feast of new ideas and your best trades. If you are looking around and revaluating your broker’s tool set in the face of pending mergers, make sure to sample what Idea Generation Technology (IGT) can do for your…

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Paper Trades: One Off, One On?

I see the Englishman transitioned from paper trading to trading in earnest and want to pass along our best wishes for good trades. (Thanks Mike)http://englishmantrader.blogspot.com/2005/11/trading-summary-11102005.html I read the hilarious musings and descriptive misery of Slovak trader and suggest he might do well to give paper trading a go: http://slovakchart.typepad.com/main_street/ (jk Frank!) TurtleTrader describes paper trading…

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People at Work

Minor but important upgrade work started today after the market and continues until tomorrow’s pre-market session. FYI.11.09.05 0.5/6.5, 3/3, 12/2411.16.05 0.0/6.5, 0/3, 2/2411.18.05 0.33/6.5, 0/3, 0.33/2411.22.05 6.5/6.5, 3/3, 16/2411.30.05 0.06/6.5, 3/3, 0.06/24

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