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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StockTwits and Trade Ideas do Lunch

Unstructured data is becoming a more important part of the trade decision process. As the most innovative and powerful real-time stock scanner and event-driven backtesting tool out there, Trade Ideas is committed to bring our users the newest technology. Our friends at StockTwits are the leaders in bringing real-time, actionable social media data to traders,…

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Social and Quant a New Business Model

CEP stands for Complex Event Processing. If you want to read up on it here is the link from WikipediaThe bottom line is that to have an edge you need to be able to process many things at once. There is a problem with the CEP acronym. The problem is the “complex” part. So how…

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Stock Market Scanner, Why You Need One Now!

Today’s market is not the type of market where knowing a couple of stocks well can make for a profitable trading year. You have to be able to get out of your comfort zone and trade the set up. Why is that the case? The answer is competition. When you are trading the likes of…

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Format and Themes for Upcoming StockTwits Episodes & Videos

[Queue the Rocky theme song] We’re getting in fight shape as we practice several pilot episodes for our eventual debut on StockTwits.tv. Believe me – we need the practice. But in the end it will benefit you, dear reader & viewer. Here’s our current format for a 15 minute show. When we start taking tweets,…

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New Website, Same Old Approach

Our website changed today – the result of some new branding for our advanced trading tools and a better way of communicating the value we bring to the trading process. https://trade-ideas.54solutions.com But with all that’s changed in our message and our look, somethings remain very much the same. It’s great to read this from a…

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Scans that Feed the Bulls & Bears on FOX Biz

This post is for @TALENTED BLONDE who posted on Twitter this morning,  http://twitter.com/TALENTEDBLONDE/status/1300271000 I decided to feed her a possible storyline for this afternoon, developed by interacting with the StockTwits crowd the last couple of days. It goes like this version of a Harper’s Index: (Data as of 1:50pm EST, Mar. 9, 2009) Number of…

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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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Farley and Twitter Combine to Find My Next Great Trade

A Scan that Finds Stocks Resisting the Market Downtrend – Stick Above the 200 MA Already my post earlier this week,  How Twitter Improves My Trades, continues to evolve and provide further lessons. Twitter Apps to Consider There’s a growing list of applications that build off of the Twitter data feed of wit, prose, commentary of…

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