Archive for March 2006
Strategy Session: Find Long Term Consolidation Breakouts
We thought we’d share a more sophisticated strategy that (in a modified version) one of our hedge fund customers shared with us. Here is the premise: The key to success is to be able to spot those golden opportunities that everyone wants to be in on – early. The Strategy: Longer Term Consolidation Breakouts How…
Read MoreCanada Exchanges Now Accessible in Trade-Ideas
The following press release will be on the wires Wednesday but we wanted to let our blog readers know about this before anyone else: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 29, 2006PRESS CONTACTS:David M. Aferiat, Trade Ideas, LLCManaging Partner, Business DevelopmentContact Usinfo@trade-ideas.comhttps://trade-ideas.54solutions.com/ Trade-Ideas’ Idea Generation Technology and Real-Time Analysis Adds Canadian Stocks to Its List of Exchanges…
Read MoreDiamondTrim speaks: Didn’t do your homework? Don’t worry.
Today’s post is written by a guest contributor named, DiamondTrim. DiamondTrim is an alias for a trader well known to readers of EliteTrader and a few other trading forums on the internet. DiamondTrim was one of the first “power-users” to understand the value of Trade-Ideas and apply its idea generation capabilities to his trading plan.…
Read MoreGOOGLE Finance NEEDS YOUR HELP
Google Finance made its debut this week and many have already weighted in with opinions, critiques, and suggestions. We gave our suggestion directly to the Google Finance team from their blog (gblog@google.com). Google Finance currently covers business info, news, and interactive charts. Essentially we asked, “What about some technical analysis?” This would round out the…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Objects in Motion Stay in Motion
Issac Newton’s First Law of Motion: Law of Inertia explains the basics of planetary motion, coach potatoes, and our latest Strategy Session. This one in particular has us rubbing our hands together because it: Is simple to understand, like Newton’s first law, and yields predictable results Is germain to market conditions we are currently experiencing…
Read MoreFrustrating Markets: Explanation and Your Edge
Dr. Brett Steenbarger’s recent posts describe why it’s so hard lately to make money in the markets. Brett’s hard to ignore data sets and factual explanation form the basis of smart trading plans – ignore them at your peril. Here’s the key finding that has big implications for your trading plan: (Note: the point between…
Read MoreStrategy Session: IBD’s Top 10 Under 10
Investor’s Business Daily does a great job giving individual investors good metrics by which to follow stocks. One example is their Accumulation/ Distribution Rating System. An ‘A+’ rating suggests that a stock is being accumulated by institutions while a rating of a ‘D’ suggests institutional selling. Here is IBD’s definition: “The Accumulation/Distribution Rating tracks the…
Read MoreDomo Arigatou gozaimashita （ありがとうございました）
There is virtually no way to go in trading and technical analysis without running into Japanese Candlesticks. This technique, developed by rice traders in the 1600’s allows one to deduce future price behavior by seeing patterns in the trading range, the high, the low, and the closing price of a trading session. Candlestick charting today…
Read MoreList Mania: Top 7 Trading Strategies
Here is a list of the most popular strategies subscribers either use as is or modify to better fit their trading plan. Note that these items are from our list of pre-configured strategies that’s available on our site and inside Trade-Ideas Pro (under “Samples”). For the first time this list also includes a strategy from…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas Learning Curve Seminar: Save the Date!
We began accepting payment and reservations for our 1st Annual Learning Curve Seminar on June 16-17, 2006 in San Diego (Del Mar!), CA. Already the response ensures us the interaction and the conversations during breakouts and over drinks will be rich, insightful, and full of ‘ah-ha’ moments. Agenda details and the event schedule are here…
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