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detectors. The monitoring program identifies trends based upon whatever indicators the individual DAET trader deems important. The market-monitoring programs can be customized to suit any individual's trading style. For example, these programs will search for trade candidates based upon price, volume, spread, volatility, and any other indicators the individual trader wishes to see. It is physically impossible for any trader to watch the more than 5000 companies trading on Nasdaq. The market-monitoring programs act as your second set of eyes and ears. This alert will be your version of the Star Wars early detection system. I don't see how anyone can trade without this feature.
DAET increases trading volume and creates intraday liquidity. The whole idea of the market is to allow traders, investors, and other participants to buy and sell easily. You don't care why anyone else is a trader, or investor, or speculator. All you want is liquidity so that you as a trader have someone to take the other side of your transaction. DAET is thousands of traders who create liquidity, while the market makers are there to steal and stuff their pockets at the expense of the telephone-ordering, e-mailing investing public.
Trading Tips
Every good trader develops a grab bag of devices, which work as so-called leading trading indicators. These trading indicators are the keys that predict a potential trading opportunity. These indicators are based upon factors that have worked for this trader in the past. Accordingly, the trader is looking to trade on these keys whenever they line up sequentially. Good traders are not usually willing to disclose their trading keys. They don't want to release their treasure map to the general public any more than you would want to reveal the tricks of the family business to a nonfamily member.
I am basically a man of action. I am an activist. You cannot grab opportunity unless you are prepared to take action. The

 
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