Archive for February 2007
Are You Testing a Strategy or a Stock?
Goldman Sachs hedge fund Global Alpha and Trade-Ideas have something important in common: both use quantitative mathematics to count cards in the marketplace. Mark Carhart, 40, co-head of the quantitative strategies group at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., uses his July speech to poke fun at the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chief executive officer’s penchant for investing…
Read MoreAnswer to the Most Frequently Asked Question
Are the conditions in Trade-Ideas combined with an “and” or an “or”?Different parts of the alert window are combined in different ways? Each alert type is combined with an or. If you select multiple alert types, you will see stocks matching the criteria of any one or more of the alert types. For example, if…
Read MoreService Interruption and Update
Trade-Ideas experienced an overnight data issue with its treatment of NASDAQ data. As a result the historical baselines that all of the filters and some the alerts use is not available for Friday, February 2, 2007 only. The problem is already fixed but the lack of data will affect Friday only. Data will be restored…
Read More15 Seconds to Grab Your Inner Trader’s Attention
Any faster and you’ll miss it. In the spirit of this weekend’s Super Bowl featuring football, food, and especially better than average commercials, we share with you the debut of Trade-Ideas in its tightly integrated form with Scottrade ELITE, the active trading platform of our partners, Scottrade, Inc. “Opportunities Hide, We Seek – Scottrade Trade-Ideas“…
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