Automation Does Not Equal Profitability – Pt. 2

Here’s the second part of a 2-part post on the questions we are answering about the upcoming option to automate the strategies developed in Trade-Ideas PRO and backtested with position management rules in The Odds Maker. Yesterday’s answers are here. Why this matters By sharing these questions and answers with you, dear reader, you are…

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Automation Does Not Equal Profitability – Pt. 1

Automation of the Trade-Ideas set-ups and backtested position management rules within The Odds Maker is in beta now with our key partners. More details like screen shots and how it all works are coming. In a nutshell if you know how to use The Odds Maker, you will know how to use the automation tool…

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Strategy Examples of 10 Trading Principles

What a prize. I don’t have the occasion to tie in as many revelant, organized links from our content as I do today. Yesterday Dr. Brett Steenbarger of TraderFeed put together a list of 10 Principles of Short-Term Trading. Notice how articulate Dr. Brett is with his plain English description of ideal trading patterns? Quite…

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4 Steps to Get the Jargon Out of Your Strategy

We were recently asked by Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine (a review of our event-based backtesting tool The Odds Maker appears in the July 2007 issue) what’s the biggest stumbling block faced by new users when trying to work with The Odds Maker. We answer the question below. How Jargon Harms Learning The…

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A Nation of Laws, Not Men – Good Idea for a Trading Plan

On this Independence Day it’s important to remember one of the most important differentiating characteristics of our nation from others past and present: We are a nation of laws, not men. We celebrate the fourth in my mind as reminder that our freedoms rest not on the whims of one man’s behavior but on laws…

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Does Your Trading Plan Benefit from Continuing Education?

After the Traders Expo in San Diego finished this past weekend, I asked several members of our team what their impressions were and how things went. Traders are not like CPAs, but in one regard they should be One reason I think it’s important to share these thoughts is to help you judge whether or…

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Trading Events vs. Stocks: an Online Presentation

On the heels of the recent Traders Expo in San Diego last week, I am participating in a virtual online trader’s expo organized by TradersWorld, a financial magazine and conference organizer de jour. My presentation to the online attendees will cover some of what Dan Mirkin and I discussed during our Learning Curve Seminar at…

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How a Boston Roundtable Will Affect Your Future Trades

Last week I mentioned a industry roundtable facilitated by the Aite Group, a research think tank that provides actionable, strategic advice on IT, business and regulatory issues in the financial services industry. It’s a group we admire for their finger in the wind forecasts and analysis of emerging trends – special hat tip to Sang…

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Summer Camp Automation at Trade-Ideas Will Yield an Even Hotter Winter

Between beach trips, the San Diego Traders Expo (you’re coming right?), and cookouts, development on automated algorithmic trading continues. The results (like all our tools) will bring new leveraged abilities to individual traders to level the playing field against anyone in the market. Early “alpha” testing of automating trades begins with strategy development in Trade-Ideas,…

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Trade Like TraderMike

TraderInterviews.com discusses strategies and techniques with Trader Mike, one of the best known traders and commentators out there. Just some of the gems from this interview (Specs: 15 mins, 01 secs): Why he likes shorting stocks more than going long Thoughts about how blogging helps him be a better trader What are the minimum filters…

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