The Best of Trade-Ideas Blog (According to Time Magazine’s Person of the Year) Pt. 2

I can't believe how fast this new year is going. Yesterday seemed like so 2006...

And with the first bad joke out of the way, I can continue with the second installment of the best (i.e., most viewed) posts of last year. Today we cover the second half of 2006:

• "I am not a big fan of technical indicators in the current form, because I believe most were made before technology got to the point where it is today." Dan Mirkin, Senior Managing Partner, Trade-Ideas gave his explanation and examples from the StockTickr interview

• When the 50 day SMA crosses below the 200 day SMA, it is called a "death cross." When the 50 crosses above the 200, it is called a "golden cross."

• How The Kirk Report and Trade-Ideas look for stocks trading above the first hour

• The method for generating a real-time source of gaps above the previous days high (and the opposite too)

• How to trade when The Fed makes news. Here's some more strategies at their best when news jolt the markets

• TraderMike discusses how he uses Trade-Ideas

• The 3-part series on How to Build a Trading Strategy Using The Odds Maker- useful methods regardless of what technology you use

• 6 Ways Your Decision Support Tool Helps or Harms Your Trading - how to judge the beauty pageant

• One good way to polish off an old trading strategy and adapt it to today's market

• Build your Street Cred - make a name for yourself in your forum or chat room

• 10 Trading Commandments - Who Can Follow Them? (if only for the cartoon)

• An explanation of the basis of position sizing, expectancy and how poker makes you a better trader

• It's useful to think of Volume and Time as levels of depth within the sea. Changing the market depth a little can reveal interesting new sea life

Oh, and this post leads by far for the most viewed in 2007 ...