Posts Tagged ‘TraderMike’
Benefits from Unemotionally Trading Your Plan
There isn’t much to add to this example of a trader’s breakthrough in sticking to the trade plan. Too often and too easily a trader jumps in to change course and deviate from a pre-determined course of action within a trade – and the result is almost always suboptimal. In fact one of the worst…
Read MoreRound-Up: How Traders Use Trade-Ideas
Here is a round-up of the more useful articles and buzz on how others are using Trade-Ideas in their routine. Filters I Use to Create My Universe of Tradable Stocks http://tradermike.net/2008/09/filters_i_use_to_create_my_universe_of_tradable_stocks/ I was recently asked about how I determine my “universe” of stocks … . To do that I use the following two scans in Trade–Ideas:…
Read MoreYour Brain’s the Grail. How to Make It Holy
Ok. Let’s do something really crazy. I’ve something big to confess. I’ve been hiding it for months because I don’t want the headlines, I don’t want our servers to crash, I don’t even want the private island and the jet to take me there. But now, I can’t hold it in any longer, so here…
Read MoreThe Zig-Zag Method for Trading Profitably and Maintaining an Edge Forever
I’ve never seen such an avalanche of ad campaigning for a single week of TV programming: it’s Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. If you’ve been to New York anytime over the last 4 weeks, you’ve been flooded with all forms of print ads everywhere. It’s so saturated that all the shows that tape in…
Read MoreRoundUp of the Best Headlines – 2007
It’s been a year of tremendous growth and innovation at Trade-Ideas. You can see what’s been added in a snapshot timeline by following this What’s New link – you may have missed something that could help your trading even more! Thanks to our dear readers our blog gets more visits each week (even if we’ve…
Read MoreThis Test Measures Trading Signals: S.M.A.R.T.
We don’t create alerts unless we know they’re helpful at spotting opportunity for traders. In fact we are now known for removing alerts when market rules change and render some events insignificant. You can rely on us to keep an ever evolving list of relevant, useful, S.M.A.R.T. alerts. I explain what that means by describing…
Read MoreWeekend Reading: Trading Routines of a Skilled Market Veteran
A great read this weekend is the Charles Kirk interview in the recent issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities. Kirk is an excellent resource to tap as someone who describes what he’s doing in the market and how he trades opportunities without selling it like a stock picking newsletter. He is most famous…
Read MoreWhat to Do When You’re Suspicious of Low Volume Rises in the Market
TraderMike’s commentary on the markets yesterday included this observation, “I’m always suspicious of low volume rises and this time is no different, especially for the S&P 500 which has been making lower highs and lower lows for the last month or so.” I agree. In fact we’ve created a couple of strategies in Trade-Ideas that…
Read MoreA Nation of Laws, Not Men – Good Idea for a Trading Plan
On this Independence Day it’s important to remember one of the most important differentiating characteristics of our nation from others past and present: We are a nation of laws, not men. We celebrate the fourth in my mind as reminder that our freedoms rest not on the whims of one man’s behavior but on laws…
Read MoreTrade Like TraderMike
TraderInterviews.com discusses strategies and techniques with Trader Mike, one of the best known traders and commentators out there. Just some of the gems from this interview (Specs: 15 mins, 01 secs): Why he likes shorting stocks more than going long Thoughts about how blogging helps him be a better trader What are the minimum filters…
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