One Way to Win It All on CNBC

I am in it to win it – the CNBC Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge. I got hooked. Since Thursday I’ve been in Chicagoland making plans with new partners and a presentation for Scottrade’s User Summit. One of my visits took me to the offices of Kingstree Trading LLC to see Charles McElveen, its gracious and…

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200-Day Winners by Volatility

This list shows which stocks have moved up the most over the last 200 trading days. Because this list is organized by the size of the price change relative to the stock’s volatility, it shows the most statistically unusual price increases. This list compares the 200 day moving average to the volatility over the last…

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Stocks Fit Enough for a Comeback

I call this custom scan from our free Research Center, “Quality Stocks Down the Most from the 50-Day Moving Average“. My latest definition of a quality stock is one that is still in the top half of its range for the year. These stocks took a hit but still have their collective necks above the…

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To Clear a Trader’s Head: Just Flip It

On the topic of Perspective: Lady Astor: “If I were your wife, I would poison your coffee.”Winston Churchill: “If you were my wife, I would drink it.” Captain Kirk reveals a great technique for changing one’s perspective that eliminates opinions and sticks to strict objectiveness in trading decisions: flip the chart. Flip the chart and…

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What’s Above the 20 Day SMA and Up 5 Days?

Not everything went off a cliff this week. Some stocks are still above their 20 day moving average and are up each day of the week (as of Thursday’s close). TickerSense points out it’s important to look for stocks that weather the storm rather than what got hit hardest. So here is a custom scan…

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Strategy Session: Persistent Strong Closes

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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Answer to the Most Frequently Asked Question

Are the conditions in Trade-Ideas combined with an “and” or an “or”?Different parts of the alert window are combined in different ways? Each alert type is combined with an or. If you select multiple alert types, you will see stocks matching the criteria of any one or more of the alert types. For example, if…

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