divTrade-Ideas' Automated Trading Bot ran off 3 profitable days of trading this week.  That's notable because:/divdivullithis is the first week we've been trading automated strategies designed for this market's volatile action - and not on a testing basis/liliwe're relearning our own tool - gaining insight on how to trade profitably given any commission structure (Hint: all depends on your average lot size - some of this explained in the video)/li/uldivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"Spielberg's Pet Rock Could Make a Better Video/span/span/divdivbr //divdivFor now.  We are learning.  We're also not too big on lots of editing because we don't want to give any impression the real-time results recorded are rigged in any way.  We will have to eventually edit more (or have edited versions) for brevity's sake./divdivbr //divdiva href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrVuLblOb_wamp;fmt=18"Here are the videos/a.  They will also soon appear on a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TradeIdeas"Trade-Ideas' YouTube Channel/a where many other videos featuring basic functionality ...

I am back from some good times in Chicago that included events for TD AMERITRADE and optionsXpress. There's plenty new strategies and insights to tell you, but I want to bring to your attention this interview of Jamie Hodge, our Director of Trader Education and long-time trading veteran, by Dave Mabe of StockTickr.com.Interview with Jamie Hodge, Trade-Ideas - May 5th, 2008Jamie tells us what "gimmick" trading is all about and how the ability to recreate your trading plan with the market's changes makes or breaks your success as a trader - a good read.Related LinksThe StockTickr Interview with Dan MirkinThe StockTickr Interview Series (RSS feed)