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September 2008: In The Know
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Dear Brett,

I have several alerts set up but I rarely see any alerts get triggered. I think I am setting them up correctly. Can you help me?

F.C.,
MN

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Backtesting is Here!

Have you ever wondered if your trading strategies are profitable? Are you curious about what percentage of your strategies are profitable? If you answered yes to either question you will be pleased to know that ScottradeELITE will now offer a free backtesting tool within Trade-Ideas™ that will allow you to backtest your strategies to see how they would perform in the market. This will be part of the September 11th upgrade.*

The backtesting tool within Trade-Ideas scans the previous 15 trading sessions and identifies all the occurrences of a trading strategy you identify. Once the patterns are scanned, a performance summary will display how many trades would have been made during that time, how many of those trades were winners and losers, the average size of the winners and losers, and the net profit or loss that would have occurred if you traded a given strategy.

Once again, the new backtesting tool is a free add-on in Trade-Ideas that is designed to provide insight into what is currently working in the market. This is designed to backtest events, but is not stock-based backtesting. Overall, this new tool will help you determine which of your trading strategies are profitable and help you understand where profits can be taken.

*No information on this e-mail should be considered a recommendation or solicitation to invest in a particular security or type of security. Securities are subject to market fluctuation and may lose value. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

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