Stock Scanner Setting to Catch the Trend-line Break

By Rodrigo | February 24, 2010

The Trade-Ideas stock scanner can not only show you events that are happening now that have implications for short term day trading, it is also used to find trading patterns for longer term investing or swing trading. One of the most powerful trading set ups is a trend-line break either up or down. What we…

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What can a Stock Scanner do for you?

By Rodrigo | February 22, 2010

There is lots of stuff going on behind the scenes at Trade-Ideas. As we work to bring the latest innovations in trading and investing to market we really want to hear from our users. Here is the bottom line. We have lots of alerts and filters to choose from. Basically, when you configure the Trade…

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Investing Smart: Don’t Trade Away Your Freedom to Profit

By Rodrigo | February 21, 2010

Investing and trading are not really all that different. The question is of course the time frame. Day trading has often been portrayed in a negative fashion but in reality the mechanics of investing and day trading are the same. It is all about the time frame, but even that is a bit misleading, the…

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Stock Scanner, Stock Screener, Stock Filters: Know the difference

By Rodrigo | February 11, 2010

We find that many people today are confused about the difference between common industry terms that describe software that helps to identify trading opportunities. This blog post is to help clear up this problem. Let’s start at the top. Stock Scanner – A stock scanner, like the Trade-Ideas real time stock scanner is software that…

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Stocks Down for the Day: A Great Pattern for Your Scanner

By Rodrigo | February 1, 2010

A very common question we get is, “How do i find stocks that are down for the day? I only see ‘up’ filters.” A new video shows how to find stocks that are up or down for the day, using our “up from the close” filters. Thank you Marissa for explaining that so clearly. A…

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