Your Invitation to Join Trade Ideas at SIFMA 2012 in NYC

Trade Ideas will be exhibiting at the 2012 SIFMA Tech Leaders Forum June 19 – 21.  It is a conference reserved for thought leaders in financial technology.  The program contains speakers and exhibitors from every aspect of the financial industry – from regulators to social media to data visualization.  We will be speaking at the…

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NASDAQ and Trade Ideas Power Punch

We gave you hints that behind the scenes, work on one of the more powerful innovations to hit the trading markets was happening. Today we released Nasdaq Velocity and Forces data completely integrated as alerts and filters inside Trade Ideas. Why is this such a big deal? This is pre-trade data. This is orders coming into…

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Next Generation Tools from Nasdaq and Trade-Ideas Partnership

There comes a time once in a while when a real deal changer in terms of technology for traders comes to the market. This was the case with Level 2 data and SOES and SelectNet in the early nineties. That time is almost upon us again. Specifically what we are talking about is the marriage…

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5 Modeling Techniques of Any Decision Support Tool

TodayI gave about 250+ traders from VCM (Velez Capital Management) a chance to get personal questions answered and see first hand how the platform performs in the hands of its custodians (me). I want to share with you the essentials of what I presented to them; namely, what challenges Trade-Ideas resolves for traders and what…

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Trade-Ideas and Market Exchange Entitlements: Cross T’s and Dot I’s

Trade-Ideas, at the behest of the market exchanges, requires its customers to electronically sign a simple agreement form. This explains why our customers recently received the following email from our own Brad Williams: Dear David, Thank you for subscribing to Trade-Ideas. Our records indicate you have not yet completed the NYSE and AMEX Exchange Agreement…

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Using Scans to Test Market Activity

We still have Dan in Hawaii running a half marathon (we’ll need some proof!) and hanging out, but it’s been too long a break and the markets decided to do something this week. Let’s look at the market activity through a Trade-Ideas lens that features many of our free customizable scans and develop some different…

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Play Both Sides of the Fed Decision

In light of the Fed decision, I am posting links to some of our previous Strategy Sessions that work best when the market is about to absorb key information: The Fed Watcher – uses the unusual number of prints trigger to pinpoint key activity and incorporates some advice dished by TheKirkReport and Toni Hansen; the…

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