Monthly Archives: September 2011

Trade review from SMB Capital

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They say an important part of growing as a trader is to get feedback from more experienced traders along the way. In hopes of furthering this goal, we’re going to try something new this week.

If you share a trade during the week of Sep 19-23, 2011, you can get a free trade review from Steve Spencer at SMB Capital! Get feedback on your trade, ask questions, whatever you would like.

Here’s all you need to do:

  1. Import your trades into Tradervue just as you normally would (you can sign up here if you’re not yet a Tradervue user).
  2. Add notes to the trade describing what you were thinking – the more detail you give, the better feedback you’ll get. Be sure to add the appropriate charts to the trade to illustrate what was happening.
  3. Tag your trade with smbreview
  4. Share your trade.

That’s it! Your trade will then show up on the SMB Trade Review page. Steve will look through the trades on that page, and review 5-10 of them on his Live from the Floor show on Monday, Sep 26 at 12:30pm eastern time.

If you have any questions or need help getting your trade ready, shoot us a note at support@tradervue.com and we’ll try to help.

New shared trades page

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As the number of shared trades has been climbing lately, it became clear that the old shared trades page was outgrowing its initial design. So now, the new, redesigned, and much more useful shared trades page!

Shared Trades

The following sections are annotated in the screenshot above:

a. The trades themselves now take center stage. Each trade contains a thumbnail of a price chart; the chart will be one of the ones the trader has chosen to share with the trade. We decide which of the selected charts to use based on a “best-fit” technique – basically, the most granular chart that shows the entire trade is the one we will show. Click on a trade to see the detail or leave a comment.

b. A list of the users who have shared the most trades. Is your name on that list? If not, why not? 🙂 Clicking on a user will filter the shared trades to just that user.

c. Popular symbols, in a “tag cloud” format where the most popular symbols will be in a larger font. Clicking on a symbol will filter the shared trades to just that symbol.

d. Trade side – clicking long or short will filter the shared trades to just those on the long or short side.

So come check out the new shared trades page, perhaps add some of your own trades to it, and leave some comments for other folks!

New feature: trading mentor/coach support

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Many traders have a trading coach or mentor. Most of those at proprietary trading firms do, but many independent traders have found mentors as well.

Some of these folks have asked for the ability to allow their mentors to see their data in Tradervue, and be able to comment on their trades. This could already be done by sharing trades publicly, but there was clearly a desire to be able to share privately with mentors, without having to make all trades public.

So we have developed a mentor system within Tradervue. The first step is to log in, click on your name in the header at the top right, and then click the “Mentor Settings” tab. The first time there, you’ll see that you can invite a mentor by entering their email. Enter your mentor’s email address and click “Invite” – you’ll then see your pending invitation listed, and an invitation email is sent to your mentor.

Once they have accepted your invitation, your mentor settings page will reflect this:

After that’s done, you won’t notice a whole lot of changes; you will see the comment fields available on all of your trades, rather than just the trades you have shared, but that’s pretty much the only change you will notice.

Your mentor, however, will see something different. When they log in, they will see a drop down where they can select to view either their own data, or the data of one of their mentees; depending on what they choose, they will see different data.

Your trading mentors have access to all of your trading and P&L data – they can see your share volumes and P&L, reports, etc. They cannot edit any of this data, but they can leave comments for you on your trades.

Give the new mentor/coaching features a try, and let us know what you think!

Hold Brothers import now supported

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You can now import data from your Hold Brothers account into Tradervue, using the Generic importer. Use the following steps:

1. Export your data from Hold Brothers in Excel format

2. In Excel, copy everything on the first worksheet to the clipboard (edit/select all, edit/copy). Or, at a minimum, copy the headers and the execution data.

3. On the Tradervue import page, select “Generic Import Format”, and then paste from the clipboard into the “Data” box and click Import.

That’s it!