October 10, 2018

Using Scanners To Discover Unseen Opportunities

There are literally thousands of stocks, commodities, ETFs, currencies, etc. that you can choose to trade.  How do we find the opportunities that offer us the best chance for success?  Along with more traditional technical analysis techniques, we employ a very important tool, VantagePoint.  VantagePoint Trading Software is a forecasting tool that uses both end of day data and artificial intelligence to provide traders a forecast of market movement. These forecasts are 1-3 days in advance and help traders improve their timing on making trades and maximizing profit potential.

Take a look at this video and see what we are talking about:

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https://discover.vantagepointsoftware.com/prosper-demo/

about the author:

Mike Shorr

Since 1994, Michael has been an on-the-floor market maker, Vice-President of Interest Rate Derivatives for Knight Financial Products and Director of Education and Options Instructor at Trading Advantage. He makes the oftentimes complex world of options and trading accessible to the novice and advanced trader alike. Michael has a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics and Finance from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. He presently is Director, Trader Education at ProsperTradingAcademy.

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