Posts Tagged ‘tips’
Tooltip: Spank Father Time While Improving Your Trades
Add seconds to the Time column display on your Trade-Ideas Alert window. One from the vault (link): http://marketmovers.blogspot.com/2008/04/tooltip-spank-father-time-while.html
Read MoreHere’s How to Trade Long on % Down Stocks: Traders’ Tips
TRADERS’ TIPS: TAS&C May Issue “He was utterly fearless but never reckless. He could, and did, turn on a twinkling if he found he was wrong.” — Jessie Livermore, American author, investor In this month’s issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities in the Traders’ Tips section, Sylvain Vervoort offers an analysis of trailing stop…
Read MoreComing Back? Returning Traders Guide to Trade-Ideas
“Yeah we tease him alot cuz we got him on the spot, welcome back. Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.” Welcome Back Kotter Theme Song Often Trade-Ideas and our subscribers resemble the local neighborhood bar. The locals there everyday collecting their mail. The casual drifters. The frequent regulars. Many start as one type of customer and…
Read MoreDirections to Automated Trading Success Same as Those to Carnegie Hall
Heard this one? [Tourist and New Yorker approach each other at the street corner] Tourist: “What’s the best way to get to Carnegie Hall?“ New Yorker: “Practice! Practice! Practice!“ The videos of Trade-Ideas’ automation on our YouTube Channel offer views of our practice sessions in the market using real capital and real market situations. Viewers…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read MoreAn Option Strategy That’s Working Now?
Summer. One of the contributors to this blog is off trying to climb a mountain. Good luck Dan! However that’s no excuse to stop writing – our customers certainly don’t stop the good support and strategy set-up questions. We therefore will recap some of the latest questions worthy of sharing – more in a series…
Read MoreStrategy Session: Find the Move During the Pause that Refreshes
I received a good question from our support forum that I want to repeat here. It’s a simple request about how to model a pattern that this customer wants to see in the market. Question: Stocks Taking a Breather What filters or alerts can I use to finds stocks that are, “taking a breather“?I.e. it…
Read MoreIt’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…
Read MoreHow Trade-Ideas Displays Time: Time & Sales Comparisons
Occasionally a customer pushes the Trade-Ideas tools in a new way and/or reveals another small piece of functionality. The other day we received an email about how we display time in Trade-Ideas PRO. This is a feature that has existed for a while, but it’s hard to use. We plan to add this to the…
Read MoreStrategy Examples of 10 Trading Principles
What a prize. I don’t have the occasion to tie in as many revelant, organized links from our content as I do today. Yesterday Dr. Brett Steenbarger of TraderFeed put together a list of 10 Principles of Short-Term Trading. Notice how articulate Dr. Brett is with his plain English description of ideal trading patterns? Quite…
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