Building A Trading System Inspired by Blog Posts

Our friend and favorite Internet Entrepreneur Howard Lindzon wrote a great post on his blog, Momentum Friday…Fashology, Mobile Payments and Biotech. The post was great because it’s short and sweet and gives the reader some really good names to watch in four industry groups. I want to expand on Howard’s post and show you how you…

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New Version Getting warmer

As many of you already know we are working on a completely new version of Trade Ideas Pro. What did we do differently this time? Ok the first thing is this, we took the evolution approach versus the revolution. It means that at first glance you should not find the new version too different. The…

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Starting the New Year Right

It is easy to get overwhelmed with information today. Not just from the market but from a host of other venues that try to help one find what to trade. Research is getting faster and faster. With so many things coming at you we thought we would take a small step back and show you…

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Trade Ideas Stock Scanner adding functionality at breakneck speed

For those of you who follow our What’s New section you probably notice that we have been adding a lot of functionality in the last few days. Recently added features now include: 1-2-3 continuation buy and sell signalsMACD signal line and zero line crossesADX and DMIas well as modified versions of our pullback from highs…

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Trade Ideas Stock Scanner Guilty of Performance Enhancing

Oh boy, we knew this was going to come out sooner or later. It is now impossible to hide that using the Trade Ideas stock scanner is the equivalent of using performance enhancing drugs. For over a year we have been working on some magic on our “back end” technology. The massive server farm that…

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Scanning Stocks with Breaking News? A Broken Idea

The world has changed for those trading on news and even stock scanning services that incorporate breaking news into their offerings. News just broke. The recent injunction by a judge against news headline distributor, flyonthewall.com, ordered it to delay disseminating the stock recommendations of financial services firms long enough so that the firms can alert…

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Stock Scanning to Make Opportunity Out of the Market’s Traps

Here’s the beginning of a correspondence with Dr. Brett Steenbarger who wisely suggested that the exchange would make for a good blog post. That’s why he’s the PhD. From the Desk of Trade Ideas March 24, 2010 Dear Brett, I just read your quick post regarding the “traps” the market can play on intraday traders…

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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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Stock Scanner Setting to Catch the Trend-line Break

The Trade-Ideas stock scanner can not only show you events that are happening now that have implications for short term day trading, it is also used to find trading patterns for longer term investing or swing trading. One of the most powerful trading set ups is a trend-line break either up or down. What we…

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Investing Smart: Don’t Trade Away Your Freedom to Profit

Investing and trading are not really all that different. The question is of course the time frame. Day trading has often been portrayed in a negative fashion but in reality the mechanics of investing and day trading are the same. It is all about the time frame, but even that is a bit misleading, the…

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