Archive for March 2007
20-Day Stock Gainers & Losers: Maximizing Buying Power
If you don’t already read Charles Kirk’s The Kirk Report, you should. It’s a bevy of information very relevant and useful to the active trader. Yesterday and today The Captain describes a source for finding 20-Day High Percentage Gainers and Losers. Because Kirk regularly mentions Trade-Ideas’ scans as a good resource, I don’t think it’s…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Finding Consolidation Breakouts
Question from IM Support today: Subscriber: (3:47:59 PM): do you have any scans for setups that have like a 30 day high, then consolidates for about 5 days and then breaks out of that consolidation? Some of the details of his request are changed to protect his idea. The tricky part of this request is…
Read MoreOne Way to Win It All on CNBC
I am in it to win it – the CNBC Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge. I got hooked. Since Thursday I’ve been in Chicagoland making plans with new partners and a presentation for Scottrade’s User Summit. One of my visits took me to the offices of Kingstree Trading LLC to see Charles McElveen, its gracious and…
Read MoreIs Time Your Friend or Foe?
Our Chief Technician is a man of few words but many strong opinions. With Spring in the air he’s focused on one area that needs some cleaning up. A few people have reported trouble with the time in Trade-Ideas recently. This was caused by the recent changes to the rules for Daylight Savings Time. If…
Read MoreBrokers Better Know This If They Want to Keep You
A majority of customers expect to change brokers within the next 6 months. In fact 2007 may be know as the “Year of the Switch“. That’s the premise of an eye-opening article published over the weekend from the Aite Group LLC, “What Really Matters to Retail Consumers of Online Brokerage? Who They Are and What…
Read More200-Day Winners by Volatility
This list shows which stocks have moved up the most over the last 200 trading days. Because this list is organized by the size of the price change relative to the stock’s volatility, it shows the most statistically unusual price increases. This list compares the 200 day moving average to the volatility over the last…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas in Your Town: NY and ATL
Busy rest of the week with travel. I am headed to New York for the next 2 days to meet with several trading organizations looking to use Trade-Ideas. If you are in NY, dear reader, and would like to meet up, please let me know in the comments. I’ll tell you everything we plan for…
Read MoreStocks Fit Enough for a Comeback
I call this custom scan from our free Research Center, “Quality Stocks Down the Most from the 50-Day Moving Average“. My latest definition of a quality stock is one that is still in the top half of its range for the year. These stocks took a hit but still have their collective necks above the…
Read MoreThe Traders Expo Welcomes Trade-Ideas and the 2nd Annual LCS
We’ve changed the dates and format of the Trade-Ideas 2nd Annual Learning Curve Seminar! Yesterday I conferenced with Dan Mirkin and our superb event coordinator, Heather, to plan our annual user’s conference set for June. We expected to follow the same format that succeeded so well last year: a June conference in San Diego at…
Read MoreThink You Know Where the Bottom or Top Is? These Scans Will Help Spot It
Bulls and Bears come to Trade-Ideas to place signposts that point to where certain stocks are headed – this is especially easy because much of the information is free and updated daily. Signposts are like road signs that help traders clue into which direction in which to trade. The more signposts a trader puts on…
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