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Free Trading Tool: Market Profile Calculator

Derek — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:29:59 +0000

For this week’s free trading tool, we turn our attention to the Market Profile Calculator provided by the good folks at MyPivots. It’s free, available online (i.e. nothing to download or install), and a breeze to use. This tool is a pretty nice way for those not currently using the profile to painlessly tinker with [...]

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Free Trading Tool: Trading Journal

Derek — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:46:13 +0000

Anton Chigurh: Don’t put it in your pocket, sir. Don’t put it in your pocket. It’s your lucky quarter. Gas Station Proprietor: Where do you want me to put it? Anton Chigurh: Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it’ll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is. Anton Chigurh: [...]

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Free Trading Tool: FinViz Market Heat Maps

Derek — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:58:25 +0000

We got some positive feedback last week when we highlighted a futures heat map, so this week we are showcasing a heat map from FinViz for our free trading tool. This time it is a map of the all the stocks in the S&P 500. But, wait there’s more! Seriously, without trying to sound to [...]

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Free Trading Tool: Barchart’s Futures Market Heat Map

Derek — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:50:07 +0000

Innovative data visualization is a passion of ours. We think that’s a good thing since we are a charting service provider. And since we do this within the global trading industry, we are most passionate about trading related data visualization. New, innovative, effective ways for traders to better see what is going on in their [...]

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Free Trading Tool: Create Your Own Trading Form

Derek — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:41:01 +0000

I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it before, but I really like Google Docs. This week I’m using Docs to create another free trading tool – a customized trading form. Docs lets you create forms, complete with multiple choice, check boxes, text boxes, and more. So I’ve created a sample form that lets you record [...]

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Free Trading Tool: Profit Factor Calculator

Derek — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:25:57 +0000

This week’s free trading tool takes a queue from last week’s Profit and Loss Forecaster, but this time it is a profit factor calculator. Here’s the logic behind the calculations: PF = Net Profit / Gross Loss In an effort to head off any confusion regarding the actual profit factor, let’s take a look at [...]

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New Article Download: Discretionary vs. Rules-based Trading

Derek — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:07:59 +0000

With so much heated discussion regarding discretionary and rules-based (or systematic) trading methods, we thought it would be helpful to share an article Jim Dalton wrote on this subject. Anyone familiar with the importance Jim places on context will be rewarded to see that theme expanded in the article. Along with providing his perspective on what [...]

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Free Trading Tool: P&L Forecaster

Derek — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:21:11 +0000

Today’s free trading tool comes to us from Henry Carstens (@VerSol) over at Vertical Solutions. Henry does a lot of great, innovative work within the realm of market derived statistical analysis. But trading is not just an academic pursuit for Henry, he is also a trader. With his Profit and Loss Forecasting Tool, Henry has [...]

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Today’s Blog: Market Rewind

Derek — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:59:48 +0000

Today’s edition of 7 Blogs comes to us from Jeff Pietsch, who runs Market Rewind. As the tagline says, Jeff offers some great commentary on the stock market and ETFs via technical and quantitative analysis. The trader and market participant in me enjoys this commentary. The trading software provider and data visualization enthusiast in me [...]

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Brand Your Trades: Great ideas from SMB on becoming a better trader

Derek — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:53:33 +0000

I mentioned the great work SMB is doing the other day in a 7 Blogs post and enjoyed watching their broadcast tonight on StockTwitsTV. After the broadcast, I decided to go back to last week’s episode and revisit something Mike Bellafiore (aka Bella) covered in his commentary. The whole thing was thick with real-world derived [...]

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