Is Timing Everything? Exploring the Role of Timing in Successful Trades

By: Katie Gomez “Timing is everything,” a saying that everyone has heard, but no one likes to hear, especially investors. Although it often requires hindsight to decode, timing is always a factor in relationships, career paths, and successful trading portfolios. While many different tools make a successful trader, the amount of luck and timing play…

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Optimizing Trade Strategies: A Step-by-Step Guide Using Trade Ideas

Trading in the stock market requires a well-defined strategy backed by robust analysis and optimization. Trade Ideas, a powerful trading platform, offers comprehensive tools to help traders refine their approach and improve their win rates. In this blog, we’ll walk through a step-by-step process of optimizing a trading strategy using Trade Ideas’ backtesting and optimization…

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 Adopting the Marathon Mindset:   How Running Strategies Can Boost Your Stock Trading Performance

By Katie Gomez As an avid runner and relatively newer stock trader, I’ve realized that these seemingly disparate pursuits share remarkable similarities. While one involves physical exertion and the other mental agility, both running and stock trading require discipline, strategy, and a keen understanding of one’s capabilities.  So whether you dabble in the occasional retail…

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What came first, the Surge or the Meme? Gamestop Surges Again: Examining the Factors Behind the Latest Market Frenzy

By Katie Gomez The volcano that remained dormant for three years and was informed never to be active again, otherwise known as Gamestop stock (GME), erupted last week. Although we know that, as traders, the market is constantly rising, falling, and changing, We are familiar with such explosions; the magnitude of this eruption was different,…

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5 Day Trading Strategies for Bear Markets

By: Shane Neagle In the ever-changing landscape of day trading, bear markets bring unique challenges that even experienced traders find testing. These markets are marked by extended periods of decline and heightened volatility, conditions that can rapidly diminish profits and elevate the risks associated with investments. Successfully navigating these conditions demands not just sharp analytical…

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