Trade Ideas Optimized AI Results vs $SPY as of December 4, 2015

Here’ s the results of Holly, Trade Ideas’ name given to its machines learning artificial intelligence, for the week that ended December 4, 2015. For those not clear on what Holly does, the technology hunts for stock and option patterns, backtests, optimizes, and then matches which resulting algorithms are best suited to the current market…

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Your Trading Plan Benefits from My Visit to the NYC Traders Expo

Our news is your news.  What’s happened over the past week at Trade-Ideas can impact your trading plan, how you use Trade-Ideas PRO and its tools, or at least give you a new place from which to gather great market insight and a continuing trader’s education.   NYC Traders EXPO: 2 Surprises I came away…

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Trade-Ideas in Your Town: NYC

Fresh from the West Coast and a great ski trip in Vail CO, it’s time to head east and get to NYC for the annual Traders Expo at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. Last year’s event featured a great presentation by one of our customers-turned-evangelists, Dave Mabe of StockTickr fame. Here is Dave himself talking…

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Institutional Brokers Teeter, Retail Brokers Innovate

It’s tough to get anything else out about the markets or its players on this solemn day but … … a bright spot exists among the retail brokers (who seem to be in better shape than the institutional ones) with a second broker rolling out event-based backtesting powered by Trade-Ideas. On Friday Scottrade announced a…

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Trade-Ideas in Your Town: What Smaller Events Can Teach You

You have 2 opportunities (one in San Diego and the other in Phoenix) to get some great education and learn not only about how to use Trade-Ideas more effectively with your trading plan, but you’ll also have the opportunity to see how our latest tool, the Automated Trading Bot, automates a trading plan with OptionsXpress.…

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Resources to Get You Over the Learning Curve

Recent question posted in our support forum: New Scottrade User – Is there a newbie’s guide to this very powerful tool? A simple way to scan for volume surges, volatility, and trending?I am frankly overwhelmed by the options here. Thanks. Our Answer: Good question. There are alot of places to start. Here’s a list: The…

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Your Best Trades: It’s Not What You See, But How You See It

The Smallest Change in Graphics Affect the Success of a Trading Plan We introduced version 2.1 of Trade-Ideas PRO back in May. The ‘Flip’ feature receives the most attention and fanfare at the conferences and summits we attend (more on the recent User’s Summit hosted by Scottrade in an upcoming post). How We See Affects…

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Never Too Late to Praise Accomplishments

You might think you’re alone on the battlefield engaging the market. It’s not true. There are many who work to support your efforts either indirectly (like your broker, your technology – including Trade-Ideas for example) or directly (like a mentor, spouse, or fellow trader). The people closest to you especially deserve your appreciation – not…

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