Archive for October 2008
Farley and Twitter Combine to Find My Next Great Trade
A Scan that Finds Stocks Resisting the Market Downtrend – Stick Above the 200 MA Already my post earlier this week, How Twitter Improves My Trades, continues to evolve and provide further lessons. Twitter Apps to Consider There’s a growing list of applications that build off of the Twitter data feed of wit, prose, commentary of…
Read MoreHow Twitter Improves My Trades – A Dummy Makes A Comeback
Using Twitters helps my feel for the markets and satisfies my sense of community with fellow traders. Specifically I use Twitter: to contribute to the conversation among those I follow and those who follow me. I do this by taking advantage of the ample resources Trade-Ideas makes available to the trading community at https://trade-ideas.54solutions.com/StockInfo/ For instance…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Over Extended Up Move – TAS&C November Article
Traders’ Tips November Issue “With globalization, the big [countries] don’t eat the small; the fast eat the slow.” Thomas L. Friedman (Op-ed columnist, New York Times) Mr. Friedman’s observation easily applies to traders. For this month’s Traders’ Tips, we’ve provided a strategy that uses speed to uncover a backtested and winning advantage in this volatile…
Read MoreWalk, Chew Gum, and Trade Ideas: Introducing Mobile Trade-Ideas
Mobile Trade-Ideas is here. We first mentioned our work on Mobile Trade-Ideas back in June thinking this would be a good application for the 3G iPhone which just rolled out. Now we have Google/T-Mobile G1 so it’s time to make Mobile Trade-Ideas available. What makes Mobile Trade-Ideas appropriate for the smartphone set is something as universal…
Read MoreIt Feels Like Animal Farm
George Orwell writes how the animals rose up against their human oppressors and took over the farm. However it was soon evident that once they were in power, not all animals were created equal. Some animals were more privileged than others. It seems that Wall Street and Main Street have a case of Animal Farm-itis.…
Read MoreQuestion for Zecco Traders
Anyone using Trade-Ideas with an account at Zecco? If so we’d love to hear from you. Send me an email at david “@” trade-ideas.com or comment below. Some interesting things for you to try and items to bounce off of you. Thanks!
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