David A.

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Join Trade-Ideas in Supporting Jeans 4 Justice

David A. posted an article on - Jan 23, 2012, 7:16 pm
Asmany of you are aware, Trade-Ideas is a longtime supporter of the Jeans 4Justice charity organization. Jeans 4 Justice is a unique non-profitorganization dedicated to ending sexual violence through the use of creativeawareness campaigns and innovative education programs.  Werecently sat down to ...
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On the Verge... Introducing Barreleye

David A. posted an article on - Oct 16, 2011, 12:23 pm
Think of the calm before the storm. Think of the change that suddenly makes the way things were previously done seem quaint - like a rotary phone or a phone booth. Here comes something we know will have a similar effect on financial market participation. Let me put it into historical context: A tal...
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Nasdaq Velocity and Forces is the New Level II

David A. posted an article on - Sep 18, 2011, 1:13 pm
Maybe I've been in this business too long. There was a time when level II was revolutionary. Even in the early 90's only a few people had it, and they had a huge advantage over people who didn't. When I was learning to trade in 1994 we would watch level II data and try to follow GSCO and MSCO and...
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NASDAQ and Trade Ideas Power Punch

David A. posted an article on - Sep 15, 2011, 12:52 pm
We gave you hints that behind the scenes, work on one of the more powerful innovations to hit the trading markets was happening. Today we released Nasdaq Velocity and Forces data completely integrated as alerts and filters inside Trade Ideas. Why is this such a big deal? This is pre-trade data. Th...
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Quantalitics The Shape of Things To Come

David A. posted an article on - Sep 11, 2011, 5:50 pm
When the going gets tough the tough get going :-) Everyone who is involved in any kind of trading for income knows that recently the game has been challenging. Very rarely are professional endeavors easy but lately the market has been especially tricky. Why is that the case? There are several re...
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Golf and the Art of Trading

David A. posted an article on - Sep 4, 2011, 11:50 am
I would like to draw your attention to the similarities between success in golf and success in trading financial instruments. Mental specifics involved in properly executing a golf swing and shooting a low score are almost the same as they are in executing a trade, managing risk, and taking profits...
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Next Generation Tools from Nasdaq and Trade-Ideas Partnership

David A. posted an article on - Aug 16, 2011, 3:04 pm
There comes a time once in a while when a real deal changer in terms of technology for traders comes to the market. This was the case with Level 2 data and SOES and SelectNet in the early nineties. That time is almost upon us again. Specifically what we are talking about is the marriage of Nasdaq...
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Time Running out on $65 Monthly Rate

David A. posted an article on - Jul 22, 2011, 11:27 am
As many of you hopefully already know the prices for Trade Ideas subscriptions are going up August 1st by 15% across the board. If you subscribe before August 1st or if you are already a subscriber you will have successfully locked in your old rate! Right now while things are still slow is the best...
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Trade-Ideas Webinar

David A. posted an article on - Jul 7, 2011, 1:21 pm
How to get the most out of Trade-Ideas Pro Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 at 2:00pm EST Jamie Hodge, Trade-Ideas Director of Education, will spend an hour walking you through Trade-Ideas Pro and it's latest functionaltiy. This webinar will cover the following topics: Basic Alert Window Functionality Us...
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Trade Ideas Price Going Up August 1st

David A. posted an article on - Jul 6, 2011, 11:39 am
Dear Traders, We are almost ready to release the new and much improved version of Trade Ideas This is a complete redo of our software from the ground up. We are now utilizing the latest in what technology has to offer to give our subscribers the best streaming market analysis on the market. Not ...
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The new Multi-Strategy window

David A. posted an article on - Jun 28, 2011, 12:14 pm
Version 3.0 of Trade-Ideas has many feature enhancements. One significant improvement is the MultiStrategy window which allows users to include multiple full-featured strategies in a single Trade-Ideas window. Each strategy can have a unique color scheme for easy identification. You can download t...
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New Version 3.0.17 is out

David A. posted an article on - May 26, 2011, 2:54 pm
New Trade Ideas Pro Beta version 3.0.17 is out. This version gives you more ability to add special columns to our top lists. In addition there is improved speed and stability. Plus the graphical indicators are getting pretty cool :-) If you have questions about the new version or need assistance ...
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SMB Capital and Trade Ideas Partner in building SMB Radar

David A. posted an article on - Apr 27, 2011, 4:34 pm
SMB Radar powered by TradeIdeas made its debut today.  Take a look at what the best of education & technology looks like. Namely, SMB's excellent trading methods paired with custom alert programming which we call Trade Ideas Quant (TIQ). See @smbcapital at the controls. Demo provided by Stocktwi...
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New Version Getting warmer

David A. posted an article on - Mar 27, 2011, 1:11 pm
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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Social and Quant a New Business Model

David A. posted an article on - Feb 27, 2011, 11:23 am
CEP stands for Complex Event Processing. If you want to read up on it here is the link from Wikipedia The 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 does this relate to T...
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In New York with NASDAQ

David A. posted an article on - Feb 22, 2011, 5:21 pm
NASDAQ Velocity and Forces® — A Real-Time Tool for Tracking Market Direction, Momentum and LiquidityNASDAQ Velocity and Forces® measures levels of pre-trade order activity in the NASDAQ trading system to indicate the intensity of trading interest and relative buy versus sell pressure. Market Vel...
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Garbage in Garbage out

David A. posted an article on - Feb 1, 2011, 3:01 pm
This happens from time to time. I like to share it with you when it's obvious on the web, so you can see it for yourself. The simple fact is that market data is not as precise as we'd like it to be. Market data is our lifeblood. We examine every bit in so much detail. And we know it's importan...
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Starting the New Year Right

David A. posted an article on - Jan 4, 2011, 12:48 pm
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 the various ways...
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Happy Holidays from Trade Ideas

David A. posted an article on - Dec 24, 2010, 11:53 am
The happiest of holiday wishes from all at Trade Ideas!! We are humbled and appreciative of all of the support and great feedback we have had in 2010! Many exciting things are in the works for 2011. The Trade Ideas Team :-)
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Stock Market Alerts vs. Stock Market Filters

David A. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2010, 3:29 am
Configuration Window: Simple Moving Averages We are constantly adding new instructional videos. I want to highlight this one because it shows some of the basic principals that are confusing to many of our new users. This video shows the difference between a stock alert and a stock filter. It also...
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Trade-Ideas Webinar

David A. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2010, 2:41 pm
How to get the most out of Trade-Ideas Pro Webinar Date: Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 12:00pm EST Jamie Hodge, Trade-Ideas Director of Education will spend 45 minutes walking you through Trade-Ideas Pro. This webinar will cover the following topics:What is Trade-Ideas and How Can It Help YouBa...
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Jeans 4 Justice

David A. posted an article on - Oct 14, 2010, 9:50 am
Congratulations to our own Marissa Hill (left). While participating in a charity fashion show, the jeans she created and modeled brought in a record breaking price at auction! For more information about Jeans 4 Justice: http://jeans4justice.org/ More information about the show: http://www.fac...
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Trade Ideas Quant Servers Getting Faster

David A. posted an article on - Sep 29, 2010, 12:47 pm
David Wooderson from Dazed and Confused circa 1993 doles out a terrific metaphor that describes what we have in our California server farm :-) This is not your grandpa's market scanning software. You might want to ask yourself why companies like eSignal, IB and the like don't have this type of ki...
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Trade-Ideas expanding to Europe

David A. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2010, 11:37 am
Trade-Ideas is broadening its reach! Europeans are excited to get their hands on the Trade-Ideas technology. Soon our statistical analysis will expand from North American equities to International exchanges as well. In the photo below, Dan Mirkin speaks at at conference in Budapest.
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SMB Capital and Trade Ideas Partner in building SMB Radar

David A. posted an article on - Sep 9, 2010, 2:16 pm
A little while ago during an epic gathering at Lindzonpalooza in Coronado Dan Mirkin, Brad Williams and the heads of SMB Capital got together and thought....we should do more sh@t together. Over a subsequent round of golf at the epic Torrey Pines, details were hashed out to meet up in California an...
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New Widgets place Stock Scanner on your site and blog

David A. posted an article on - Aug 23, 2010, 12:14 pm
Trade-Ideas Stock Market Scanning goes to the Cloud! Trade Ideas is giving you the ability to tap our cloud computing servers and place a stock scanning widget right on your web site or blog. The widget, which is free works with delayed data but it will make your audience much more sticky :-) If yo...
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Trade Ideas Stock Scanner goes to Europe

David A. posted an article on - Jul 26, 2010, 10:14 am
We at Trade Ideas have been working hard to shake things up recently. Behind the scenes we have partnered with a large German distributor to add our powerful stock scanner analytics to a fully functional stock and Forex trading platform. Our CTO Philip Smolen and Dan Mirkin will be travelling to E...
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See an Example of Robust Automation From Benchmarq Trading Partners Using Trade-Ideas

David A. posted an article on - Jun 10, 2010, 1:25 pm
Join us for a Webinar on July 14 at 12pm EDT featuring: Nick Nazarov, Managing Member, Benchmarq Trading Partners Do you have a viable trading strategy but lack programming skills? Want to trade multiple systems simultaneously but lack the manpower and discipline to execute them efficiently? Learn t...
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Trade Ideas Stock Scanner Free Powerful Tools for Profits

David A. posted an article on - Jun 5, 2010, 5:28 pm
One can get very powerful stock picking information for free from the Trade-Ideas web site. Would you like to know which stocks have at least doubled in the last 20 days? This is easy to do. Take a look at our screen and see how easy it is to find the answer to this question. Here are the specifi...
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Stock Scanner Adventures in Technical Analysis, or How to Compute the ADX

David A. posted an article on - May 17, 2010, 3:45 pm
When people watch our real-time stock scanner, they sometimes say that our formulas don't look exactly like what their trading or charting software says it should look like. We try to minimize this, but there's only so much we can do. When doing millions of real-time computations a second, there'...
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New Milestone for Trade-Ideas Stock Scanner 350K unique users

David A. posted an article on - May 12, 2010, 12:09 pm
Today we are proud to announce that the Trade-Ideas stock scanner has crossed over the 350,000 unique user mark. Since inception in 2002, our real-time stock scanner has attracted active traders from all around the world as they seek to get the information edge. Consider this, TradeStation, which i...
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Trade-Ideas Stock Scanner adds New Strategy

David A. posted an article on - May 11, 2010, 1:59 pm
As we continue to separate ourselves from other analytics vendors, we are happy to add another powerful set up to our extensive array of real-time stock alerts and filters . This strategy is called the Opening Power Bar strategy and just like before we customized it to make it better than the origi...
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Stochastics now in Trade Ideas Stock Scanner

David A. posted an article on - May 3, 2010, 11:26 am
Hi Traders, We enjoy showing you, our customers, why our scanner is simply the best stock scanner on the market today. Just a few days ago we added the stochastics alerts to our feature rich alerts menu. This alert tracks the stochastic indicator on the 5, 15, and 60 minute time frames. In additi...
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Trade Ideas Stock Scanner adding functionality at breakneck speed

David A. posted an article on - Apr 12, 2010, 11:49 am
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 signals MACD signal line and zero line crosses ADX and DMI as well as modified versions ...
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iPhone Stock Screener Beta

David A. posted an article on - Apr 5, 2010, 10:36 am
Trade-Ideas is about to release a new version of our iPhone app. If you want to be the first to see it, please join the beta program. If you are interested, please send an email to info@trade-ideas. You need to include the UDID of your device. Here's some information on how to find your UDID: ht...
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Trade Ideas Stock Scanner Guilty of Performance Enhancing

David A. posted an article on - Apr 3, 2010, 12:49 pm
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 c...
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Scanning Stocks with Breaking News? A Broken Idea

David A. posted an article on - Mar 30, 2010, 9:54 am
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...
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Does your Trade-Ideas T-Shirt fit?

David A. posted an article on - Mar 29, 2010, 12:10 am
Did you get the wrong size? Did you wear out your shirt? Did someone "borrow" it from you? Let us know if you need a new one!
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Stock Scanning to Make Opportunity Out of the Market's Traps

David A. posted an article on - Mar 24, 2010, 3:14 pm
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 IdeasMarch 24, 2010 Dear Brett, I just read your quick post regarding the "traps" the market can play on intrada...
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Reducing Latency and Increasing Bandwidth in Your Trading Environment

David A. posted an article on - Mar 18, 2010, 12:54 pm
Marissa recently created a YouTube video titled "Reducing Latency and Increasing Bandwidth in Your Trading Environment." http://www.trade-ideas.com/VideoHelp/YouTube_Index.html?date=2010-02-19#id36. We've gotten so much response to this, I want to elaborate on a few points. First, a quick pic...
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iPhone Stock Screener, version 2, is now available in the app store

David A. posted an article on - Feb 18, 2010, 8:58 am
Be sure to check out the recent upgrades to our iPhone app! What's new in version 2 We've added more icons for clarity. You can now log in to your Trade-Ideas account from your iPhone. This is not required, but it will allow you to access some additional features. ...
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Stock Scanner, Stock Screener, Stock Filters: Know the difference

David A. posted an article on - Feb 11, 2010, 12:46 pm
We find that many people today are confused about the difference between common industry terms that describe software that helps to identify trading opportunities. This blog post is to help clear up this problem. Let's start at the top. Stock Scanner - A stock scanner, like the Trade-Ideas re...
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Stocks Down for the Day: A Great Pattern for Your Scanner

David A. posted an article on - Feb 1, 2010, 12:28 am
A very common question we get is, "How do i find stocks that are down for the day? I only see 'up' filters." A new video shows how to find stocks that are up or down for the day, using our "up from the close" filters. Thank you Marissa for explaining that so clearly. A related question i...
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