“Wait for the 8” Leads 13 Algos, 3 Short: Holly Morning Huddle Report

Good morning.  Here is your Holly Morning Huddle Report. Today the number of Long strategies outnumber the Shorts, but first let’s assess my overall performance. As of today, Friday, November 18, 2016, the return from my trading performance since January 1 stands at +98.0 accumulated profit points vs the benchmark SPY’s performance of +12.8 points over the same period. On Thursday…

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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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Stock Scanner Settings in a Market Going Nowhere

What does one do when it looks like nothing is happening? Traders often find themselves frustrated at times when seemingly there is nothing going on. This is a time that separates the professionals from the amateur traders. Professionals know first of all that there is no need to push it. Getting frustrated mentally only hurts…

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Trade-Ideas Version of Gainers & Losers: Latest from Support Forum

Some recent posts in the Trade-Ideas Unofficial Support Forum contain interesting strategies – this one asks about Gainers & Losers. REQUEST: How to set to get top Gainers and Losers alert for stocks with, min price$5, max price$20,daily average volume is 1.000.000 and min current volume is 250.000 SET-UP: http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=44601712 We also delivered several new…

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How Twitter Improves My Trades – A Dummy Makes A Comeback

Using Twitters helps my feel for the markets and satisfies my sense of community with fellow traders. Specifically I use Twitter: to contribute to the conversation among those I follow and those who follow me.  I do this by taking advantage of the ample resources Trade-Ideas makes available to the trading community at https://trade-ideas.54solutions.com/StockInfo/ For instance…

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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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It’s the Pattern, Not the Stock that Makes the Mad Money

Disclaimer: The article mentioned below mentions Trade-Ideas as an ‘industry standard’ and sprinkles a bit more praise on us but was written unsolicited by a former trader, Dave Goodboy, turned writer for TradingMarkets.com and other outlets. “How To Use A Stock Screener” Goodboy’s article addresses the most basic of scanner and screener tools available to…

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Learn How to Trade the Breaking News on Fed Day

As a result of recently adding new filters and alerts to Trade-Ideas, I learned new tricks on helping others get their ideas from their head and into Trade-Ideas much more easily. Turns out the good folks at DTI and Tom Busby are providing a platform from which to discuss how we are using the new…

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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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