Posts Tagged ‘relative volume’
Stock Scanner, Stock Screener, Stock Filters: Know the difference
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…
Read MoreFibonacci Long 1st 30 Minutes = 88% Odds in Your Favor: TASC Trader’s Tip September
Traders’ Tips: September Issue “Now, you listen to me! I want it reopened right now. Get those brokers back in here! Turn those machines back on!” Mortimer Duke, Trading Places (1983) This month’s Traders’ Tips concerns pivot points. While researching an appropriate strategy for this month, we discovered a stock trading strategy based, in part,…
Read MoreStrategy 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…
Read More1 Stock’s Collapse Reveals a Pattern Others Might Follow
As many of our subscribers confirm – our technology works – really well. Here’s an example that features option filters recently added and Bear Stearns. I think this example is more relevant as we prepare to absorb one of the last of the giants in the financial sector that’s been exposed to the sub-prime mortgage…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Best Ways to Find the Tipping Points
New alerts and filters added recently expand the arsenal of ways in which any trading universe can be modeled in Trade-Ideas. We even created some sample strategies to show you how they are used. Here’s what we did: Added bottoming tail and topping tail alerts. Added new filters to find stocks based on how much…
Read MoreYour Best Trades: It’s Not What You See, But How You See It
The Smallest Change in Graphics Affect the Success of a Trading Plan We introduced version 2.1 of Trade-Ideas PRO back in May. The ‘Flip’ feature receives the most attention and fanfare at the conferences and summits we attend (more on the recent User’s Summit hosted by Scottrade in an upcoming post). How We See Affects…
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