Round-Up: How Traders Use Trade-Ideas

Here is a round-up of the more useful articles and buzz on how others are using Trade-Ideas in their routine. Filters I Use to Create My Universe of Tradable Stocks http://tradermike.net/2008/09/filters_i_use_to_create_my_universe_of_tradable_stocks/ I was recently asked about how I determine my “universe” of stocks … . To do that I use the following two scans in Trade–Ideas:…

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Put A Go-Getter and A Cleaner on Your Payroll

As helpful a suite of tools like Trade-Ideas is to have on the payroll; generating ideas based on pattern recognition, backtesting those ideas based on the recent market activity, and in some cases automating the next trade, there’s another important ‘player’ to employ on your staff: the cleaner or bookkeeper. StockTickr is an online portfolio…

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Trade-Ideas Releases Beta of v2.2 Without Stephen Colbert’s Endorsement

Stephen Colbert hawks his bestseller, I Am America (And So Can You!), with the pronouncement, “When you make the first one this good, you don’t have to write another one.”   We agree.   He’s talking about his book of course, but it’s just as easy to substitute with the phrase ‘decision-support trading tool‘, right?  That’s…

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The Perils of Long Term Buy and Hold

Many readers here can say they lived and even traded during the greatest bull market in the history of the stock market. Around every corner held opportunity. Every pullback was another great point to add to positions. Are we in such a pullback now or are we destined to muddle through sideways or declining markets?…

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Your Brain’s the Grail. How to Make It Holy

Ok. Let’s do something really crazy. I’ve something big to confess. I’ve been hiding it for months because I don’t want the headlines, I don’t want our servers to crash, I don’t even want the private island and the jet to take me there. But now, I can’t hold it in any longer, so here…

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Customers Talking, Trade-Ideas Listening: Upcoming Features

We are making continued additions and improvements to our service. In the spirit of the summer movies, below are the upcoming attractions to the Trade-Ideas PRO platform: Coming Very Soon: Wide Range Bar Wide range bar (WRB): The range of the bar is much greater than the average bar. This alert, recommended by one of…

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Weekend Reading: Follow the BRICs

Thanks to Dr. Brett for bringing attention to this article on the BRIC nations: Global Investing, BRIC by BRIC I am reminding readers of a post we made about the BRIC nations that features primary sources developed by Goldman Sachs. You Don’t Have to See the Future, to Know We’ll Be Watching These Markets One…

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Markets Don’t Fit Your Trading Style? Engage with Better Odds of Winning

Our audience for the blog consists mainly of potential customers, returning customers, and existing subscribers. Really informed traders come here for market insight and working strategies that we model in a category of posts called, Strategy Sessions. A lot of product information and other nuggets appear here on the blog first. Occasionally however we actually…

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