Option Traders Will Love These New Filters in Trade-Ideas

By Rodrigo | February 11, 2008

Trade-Ideas expands the list of ways to describe an option trader’s universe with 6 new filters. These filters are in their final testing phase and will soon go live. When they do subscribers will simply see them appear in the list under the Filters tab in Trade-Ideas PRO. And you thought you had to download…

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Knowing the Market’s Mood is Better than Guessing What Comes Next

By Rodrigo | January 24, 2008

Figuring out exactly what the market will do at the very next moment is tough to do. Understanding what mood the market is in, however, proves to be not only easier, but eventually leads to better accuracy about what comes next. The beauty of Trade-Ideas’ tools is that you get to ask and answer your…

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How the Rubberband Man Improved Automated Trading

By Rodrigo | December 21, 2007

Market Orders?! Automated trading functionality introduced by Trade-Ideas only had market orders for initiating and covering positions. Market orders?! The first version of the software was more proof of concept than anything else. That’s why the ones using it were kept to a bare minimum. Much is about to change. After analyzing trader feedback and…

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OptionsXpress Pilot Underway!

By Rodrigo | October 8, 2007

The OptionsXpress Automated Trading Pilot program is now officially underway. It is very easy to get started. You just need an account with OptionsXpress and a subscription to Trade-Ideas.Click (Here) to download the latest version of the OptionsXpress Robot. Please make sure that your OptionsXpress account is permissioned for XML API trading, otherwise you will…

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Automation, OddsMaker, and Expectations: Lessons Learned so Far

By Rodrigo | October 1, 2007

We are not only software makers, we are our own Guinea pigs (kinda like those hairclub companies). Fully automated trading recently arrived to the suite of Trade-Ideas tools. We do this by first implementing a strategy created and backtested via The OddsMaker. Then we execute the strategy rolling forward via an API (Application Programming Interface)…

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Poker Odds and Professional Trading

By Rodrigo | September 25, 2007

There is no doubt in my mind that the skills to succeed in poker are the same skills to succeed in trading. Unfortunately most people approach trading differently and in a way that opens them up to losses and eventual failure. Is your hand worth playing? In poker understanding the odds of your hand determines…

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I Bet My Personal Trading Volatility Is Higher Than Yours

By Rodrigo | August 28, 2007

Volatility says in a sense, that what moves up also moves down. Here’s how we define it technically as it applies to our real-time statistical analysis: Definition of technical volatility A resourceful trader knows his/her prey and can identify a stock’s natural volatility so that a natural wiggle doesn’t automatically hit a stop order (See…

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14 Questions and 1 Invite for Automated Trading

By Rodrigo | August 1, 2007

More on the Automated Trading Pilot with OptionsXpressTrade-Ideas and OptionsXpress now offer fully automated equities trading to OptionsXpress customers. This offering is part of a pilot program that features the availability of a suite of tools at no cost to participants for the 3-month pilot. Please note: a subscription to Trade-Ideas PRO paid by participants…

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