2 Trader Takeaways from February’s Market Drop

The market gapped down and fell more than 400 points on February 27, 2007 marking the largest drop since the September 2001 attacks. While the press and pundits analyzed the fall from many angles, there’s been a paucity of comments regarding lessons learned from a traders’ perspective. Here’s our take that combines risk management technology…

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20-Day Stock Gainers & Losers: Maximizing Buying Power

If you don’t already read Charles Kirk’s The Kirk Report, you should. It’s a bevy of information very relevant and useful to the active trader. Yesterday and today The Captain describes a source for finding 20-Day High Percentage Gainers and Losers. Because Kirk regularly mentions Trade-Ideas’ scans as a good resource, I don’t think it’s…

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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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Is Time Your Friend or Foe?

Our Chief Technician is a man of few words but many strong opinions. With Spring in the air he’s focused on one area that needs some cleaning up. A few people have reported trouble with the time in Trade-Ideas recently. This was caused by the recent changes to the rules for Daylight Savings Time. If…

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Brokers Better Know This If They Want to Keep You

A majority of customers expect to change brokers within the next 6 months. In fact 2007 may be know as the “Year of the Switch“. That’s the premise of an eye-opening article published over the weekend from the Aite Group LLC, “What Really Matters to Retail Consumers of Online Brokerage? Who They Are and What…

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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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Trade-Ideas in Your Town: NY and ATL

Busy rest of the week with travel. I am headed to New York for the next 2 days to meet with several trading organizations looking to use Trade-Ideas. If you are in NY, dear reader, and would like to meet up, please let me know in the comments. I’ll tell you everything we plan for…

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The Traders Expo Welcomes Trade-Ideas and the 2nd Annual LCS

We’ve changed the dates and format of the Trade-Ideas 2nd Annual Learning Curve Seminar! Yesterday I conferenced with Dan Mirkin and our superb event coordinator, Heather, to plan our annual user’s conference set for June. We expected to follow the same format that succeeded so well last year: a June conference in San Diego at…

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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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