Archive for November 2006
Get Your Motor Runnin’: Custom EOD Scan
Anyone can use our Stock Research area of Trade-Ideas.com that uses End-of-Day data. Did I mention freely? This large toolbox features: Pre-configured scans like 200-Day Winners by % Individual stock research reports like SIGM (featured today on WallStrip!) A tool for designing your own custom scans and 4. recent scans created by visitors to the…
Read MoreHappy Birthday TraderFeed
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Many of our Strategy Sessions and the ways in which we think about training and educating our subscribers come from the questions TraderFeed raises and its insightful observations. All of us at Trade-Ideas give a big thanks and offer best wishes for many more years into adolescence and beyond to TraderFeed.
Read MoreRise of the Educators: Vegas Expo Thoughts
Last week’s Traders Expo in Las Vegas left us physically spent with no time to regroup before following up on opportunities and celebrating Thanksgiving. The Expo revealed surprising and encouraging trends that we are now tuned into and will watch to see develop. Let’s hear from you whether you agree or not: Existing tools among…
Read MoreGood Enough for Seconds and Thirds: The Next Trade-Ideas Widget
It’s a meal in itself or great with leftovers. We introduce the embeddable Stock Screener for your blog or web page to add your property’s content value. How does it improve your content’s value? The customizable screener can generate a list of stocks according to whatever view of the market you are taking that day.…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas In Your Town: Vegas Update
We are headed to Las Vegas this week and weekend for the Traders Expo. Here are the details: Las Vegas, NV: The Traders Expo, Mandalay Bay Resort, November 16-19, 2006 – maybe we’ll have another episode of “the Tao of Dan” 😉 Are you planning to attend? Here’s a snapshot of some last minute fares…
Read MoreIf You Don’t Know Your Hand’s Expectancy, the Odds Are Against You
Chris Perruna explains the basis of position sizing, expectancy and how poker has made him a better trader. In writing this article he produces one of the strongest cases for using Trade-Ideas’ Odds Maker as a crucial risk management tool. “How the Poker Craze Can Help You Trade“, (.pdf), November, 2006; Chris Perruna, founder and…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Price, MA Crossovers on Strong Volume
Let’s pull a question out of our support forum that sparked a pretty good strategy in Trade-Ideas with a positive expectancy as reported by The Odds Maker. Here was the pitch: “A trading strategy I am trying to implement in Trade-Ideas is to use moving averages over 15, 30 and 60 minute periods along with…
Read MoreWhat 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…
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