Archive for February 2007
Trade-Ideas In Your Town: Chicagoland
Last week we announced the dates of our 2nd annual Trade-Ideas user’s conference we call the Learning Curve Seminar: June 19-20th in downtown San Diego, CA. If you can’t make it there for those dates, come and visit us during the upcoming Scottrade ELITE User’s Summit scheduled for Saturday, March 24 in Chicago, IL. The…
Read MoreWhen Subscribers Talk: Don’t Stop til You Get Enough
The truth is – it’s never enough. Keeping customers talking about a product or service in a positive, constructive way means delivering on the features that customers ask for and fixing or changing what they dislike. Fortunately we keep the conversation ratio tilted to the positive. The 3 latest improvements to the service fall into…
Read MoreDaily Ticks: P&L Management
One item that’s got our attention today: it is Dr. Brett Steenbarger’s column from over the weekend regarding his series on trading Best Practices. In the article Brett considers one practice used by new traders (about eliminating emotion) we’ve seen put to good use in offices across the country. P&L Management: A Best Practice in…
Read MoreInvite to the 2nd Annual Learning Curve Seminar: Ridding Opinions from Trading
UPDATE! New dates for the Trade-Ideas 2nd Annual Learning Curve Seminar! Now June 21 – 22! Read the full update HERE. The plans are set for the 2nd Annual Trade-Ideas Learning Curve Seminar this summer. It takes place (Ed. Note: NOW June 21-22) June 19-20th 2006 in San Diego, CA. This learning experience allows attendees…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Persistent Strong Closes
Let’s leave it up to good karma that after reading today’s post from Dr. Brett Steenbarger, “Persistent Strong Closes: The Personality of This Stock Market“, I field an interesting support IM (Note: list of support IMs here) from “a Brooklyn Trader” that produces a good strategy based on Brett’s observations – a Strategy Session we…
Read MoreA Best Practice in Trading Using Trade-Ideas
My goodness we have a lot to share with you this week (including new feature announcements, Expo updates, articles, etc.) and we are already behind – it being Tuesday! Let’s start with a big thank you for the informative article Dr. Brett Steenbarger wrote on Saturday, Stock Screening for Index Traders: A Best Practice in…
Read MoreNY Traders Expo 2007
Dear Trader, If you are in the New York area, come join us over at the Traders Expo at the New York Marriott Marquis this weekend. Dan Mirkin will be participating in a lively panel on Monday, February 19th (markets closed!) as follows: 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM When Trading Styles Collide: Technicians and Fundamentalists…
Read More3 Ways to Measure A Trader’s Technology – Part 2
Today we continue with the 2nd in a 3-part series that draws the trendline on the art of trading itself. Part 1 discussed why scalping, the way the veterans know it, is a tough business to maintain and even tougher to teach to another. Today we’ll describe how active/day trading with a positive, repeatable edge…
Read MoreEveryone Ought to Know Its the Death of Scalping – Part One
Today we start a 3-part series that draws the trendline on the art of trading itself. Specifically we’ll share why scalping as the veterans know it is over and how the rebirth of day trading leverages technology and accessible information to put the individual trader on the same footing as any hedge fund manager. The…
Read MoreWho Wants to Listen In on a Great Traders’ Conversation?
Can’t make it to New York for the Traders Expo in February? Take advantage of being there online for the following FREE Webcast Event Featuring: Dan Mirkin, Senior Managing Partner, Trade Ideas LLCLIVE from The Traders Expo New York “When Trading Styles Collide: Technicians and Fundamentalists Go Head-To-Head“ Monday, February 19, 2007, 8:00 am-9:30 am…
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