Interview with J. Hodge, Director of Education, Trade-Ideas

I am back from some good times in Chicago that included events for TD AMERITRADE and optionsXpress. There’s plenty new strategies and insights to tell you, but I want to bring to your attention this interview of Jamie Hodge, our Director of Trader Education and long-time trading veteran, by Dave Mabe of StockTickr.com. Interview with…

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Trade-Ideas in Your Town: NYC!

Fresh from the west coast, it’s off to the east coast. NYC. It will be a busy week with travel, meetings, and the TD AMERITRADE ApexLIVE event taking place at the Marriott Marquis on Tuesday (tomorrow). I’ve already met with the folks at Minyanville and Knight Capital Group. I’ll have more to say about the…

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Trade-Ideas in Your Town: San Francisco

Time to saddle up and fly west to San Francisco to meet with the development team of a very large online broker – I can say no more. Flying a MD-80? Why yes, I am, but it’s with Delta – wish I knew how to play those odds in The OddsMaker. Outside of these meetings…

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1 Stock’s Collapse Reveals a Pattern Others Might Follow

As many of our subscribers confirm – our technology works – really well. Here’s an example that features option filters recently added and Bear Stearns. I think this example is more relevant as we prepare to absorb one of the last of the giants in the financial sector that’s been exposed to the sub-prime mortgage…

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StockTickr Interview Reveals How We Use Automated Trading

I’m sliding under the table to you some excerpts from a recent interview that our Director of Trader Education, Jamie Hodge, gave to our good friend Dave Mabe of StockTickr. You’ll understand after reading the entire interview how to win against today’s market that’s eliminated many of the information advantages traders used to have and…

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The Key to Finding a Winning Strategy in Any Market

Are you tired of being spoon-feed trades without knowing how to come up with the ideas on your own? Many traders fall into the trap of being fed the fish but never really knowing how to go about fishing on their own. This post and next week’s aim to fix that. The Words that Would…

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Answers from the Many Questions DTI Traders Asked

Yesterday I participated in a great day of trader education organized by Tom Busby and the folks at DTI and sponsored by optionsXpress. My presentation discussed the best way to develop a theme about the market and test whether and how much profits can be made using our backtesting tool, The OddsMaker. It was a…

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Trade-Ideas in Your Town: Off to Phoenix

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the Trade-Ideas ‘krewe’ will be headed to Phoenix for an Expo sponsored entirely by optionsXpress (details). I am an advocate of these types of get togethers between companies and customers because of several benefits each party receives. How Attendees Benefit Attendees get a chance for a deeper dive…

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NY EXPO Attendee? See a Pro Use Trade-Ideas

UPDATE: Here is Dave himslef talking about his presentation: http://blog.stocktickr.com/2008/02/08/presentation-on-automation-at-traders-expo/ If you are attending the upcoming NY Traders Expo beginning Sunday and lasting until Tuesday next week, you’ll want to see one of our subscribers, Dave Mabe of StockTickr, use Trade-Ideas to fatten his portfolio. Dave is one of the nicest guys you’ll meet in…

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Option Traders Will Love These New Filters in Trade-Ideas

Trade-Ideas expands the list of ways to describe an option trader’s universe with 6 new filters. These filters are in their final testing phase and will soon go live. When they do subscribers will simply see them appear in the list under the Filters tab in Trade-Ideas PRO. And you thought you had to download…

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