Archive for March 2008
StockTickr Interview Reveals How We Use Automated Trading
I’m sliding under the table to you some excerpts from a recent interview that our Director of Trader Education, Jamie Hodge, gave to our good friend Dave Mabe of StockTickr. You’ll understand after reading the entire interview how to win against today’s market that’s eliminated many of the information advantages traders used to have and…
Read MoreStrategy Session: You Rob a Bank Cuz That’s Where the Money Is
The same principle applies to the market: Trade where the odds are. Last week I discussed a unique approach to determine where trades with the highest winning percentage exists. Read here to fully understand this approach which relies on the power of The OddsMaker to determine whether going Long or going Short in the market…
Read MoreThe Key to Finding a Winning Strategy in Any Market
Are you tired of being spoon-feed trades without knowing how to come up with the ideas on your own? Many traders fall into the trap of being fed the fish but never really knowing how to go about fishing on their own. This post and next week’s aim to fix that. The Words that Would…
Read MoreAnswers from the Many Questions DTI Traders Asked
Yesterday I participated in a great day of trader education organized by Tom Busby and the folks at DTI and sponsored by optionsXpress. My presentation discussed the best way to develop a theme about the market and test whether and how much profits can be made using our backtesting tool, The OddsMaker. It was a…
Read MoreImprove Your Trading Plan with this One Visit
I am just back from a great conference in Phoenix sponsored by optionsXpress. I learned alot about Trade-Ideas while interacting with the audience and our Director of Education, Jamie Hodge. We added so many new filters and alerts to Trade-Ideas recently, I fell behind a bit on everything we can do. I also learned new…
Read MoreTrade-Ideas in Your Town: Off to Phoenix
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the Trade-Ideas ‘krewe’ will be headed to Phoenix for an Expo sponsored entirely by optionsXpress (details). I am an advocate of these types of get togethers between companies and customers because of several benefits each party receives. How Attendees Benefit Attendees get a chance for a deeper dive…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Best Ways to Find the Tipping Points
New alerts and filters added recently expand the arsenal of ways in which any trading universe can be modeled in Trade-Ideas. We even created some sample strategies to show you how they are used. Here’s what we did: Added bottoming tail and topping tail alerts. Added new filters to find stocks based on how much…
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