Institutional Brokers Teeter, Retail Brokers Innovate

It’s tough to get anything else out about the markets or its players on this solemn day but … … a bright spot exists among the retail brokers (who seem to be in better shape than the institutional ones) with a second broker rolling out event-based backtesting powered by Trade-Ideas. On Friday Scottrade announced a…

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The Perils of Long Term Buy and Hold

Many readers here can say they lived and even traded during the greatest bull market in the history of the stock market. Around every corner held opportunity. Every pullback was another great point to add to positions. Are we in such a pullback now or are we destined to muddle through sideways or declining markets?…

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Markets Don’t Fit Your Trading Style? Engage with Better Odds of Winning

Our audience for the blog consists mainly of potential customers, returning customers, and existing subscribers. Really informed traders come here for market insight and working strategies that we model in a category of posts called, Strategy Sessions. A lot of product information and other nuggets appear here on the blog first. Occasionally however we actually…

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An Option Strategy That’s Working Now?

Summer. One of the contributors to this blog is off trying to climb a mountain. Good luck Dan! However that’s no excuse to stop writing – our customers certainly don’t stop the good support and strategy set-up questions. We therefore will recap some of the latest questions worthy of sharing – more in a series…

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Strategy Session: Find the Move During the Pause that Refreshes

I received a good question from our support forum that I want to repeat here. It’s a simple request about how to model a pattern that this customer wants to see in the market. Question: Stocks Taking a Breather What filters or alerts can I use to finds stocks that are, “taking a breather“?I.e. it…

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Strategy Session: Automation for Swing Trades

The fast paced world of trading excites us – buyers vs. sellers, large capitalized players vs smaller and quicker/nimble players, etc. However we at Trade-Ideas recognize that for many in the investing public, trading twenty or thirty times a day is a lot – completely alien. That’s why our tools are also made for longer-term…

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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…

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Strategy 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…

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The 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…

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Answers 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…

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