Strategy Session: Finding Consolidation Breakouts

By Rodrigo | March 26, 2007

Question from IM Support today: Subscriber: (3:47:59 PM): do you have any scans for setups that have like a 30 day high, then consolidates for about 5 days and then breaks out of that consolidation? Some of the details of his request are changed to protect his idea. The tricky part of this request is…

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Strategy Session: Persistent Strong Closes

By Rodrigo | February 21, 2007

Let’s leave it up to good karma that after reading today’s post from Dr. Brett Steenbarger, “Persistent Strong Closes: The Personality of This Stock Market“, I field an interesting support IM (Note: list of support IMs here) from “a Brooklyn Trader” that produces a good strategy based on Brett’s observations – a Strategy Session we…

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2 Elements of Good Backtesting Results

By Rodrigo | January 10, 2007

We’re not the only ones on the subject of backtesting in the new year. Today Price Headley points to the benefits on a trader’s psychology and confidence of backtesting and helps frame how a trader should evaluate the system to which s/he is about to commit capital (thanks TraderMike): How will your system react to…

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Odds Maker versus TradeStation, Wealthlab, CyberTrader and Other

By Rodrigo | November 2, 2006

Since we launched the Odds Maker beta in September many have asked the question. Why are you guys so excited about back-testing? It has been around for a long time and other software products like TradeStation, Wealthlab, Metastock, and CyberTrader all have their own back-testing modules. What is the big deal? Here are the real…

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