Trade Ideas

Social arbitrage investor Chris Camillo is always looking for trade ideas based on trends and finding good stories ahead of Wall Street. One of his best investments has been an ugly shoe company that he thinks could be one of the best stories moving forward, with Wall Street undervaluing an...

On May 19, the Small Exchange announced the launch of a new futures exchange after receiving approval from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and successfully completing Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) tests. The launch marks a new beginning for the industry, as more market...

What would it take to produce AI-driven trade ideas on a daily basis? That’s the idea of Trade Ideas. Founded in 2002, Trade Ideas mainly caters to active traders,including professionals and hedge funds. Its investment discovery engine, known as ‘Holly’, analyzes the market after...

This is part 2 of a roundtable Benzinga conducted on Wall Street’s adoption of artificial intelligence. Click here for part 1. Benzinga asked a panel of people specifically working at the intersection of AI and Wall Street to give us their thoughts on how the trend will play out. The...

The Benzinga Global Fintech Awards are a yearly showcase of the best and brightest in fintech. In preparation for its biggest installment yet in May 2018, we're profiling the companies competing for the BZ Awards. Our next feature is on Trade Ideas. What does your company do? What unique...

The 2017 Benzinga Fintech Summit was a gathering of leaders from every fintech vertical displaying the next generation of fintech innovation. In this new article series, we’ll be sharing insights and new products from the inaugural BZ Summit. The Company: Trade Ideas positions itself as...

By Claire Bendig With technological growth comes limitless data sources. The question is: how can massive amounts of data aid the flow of business? Jacob Sorensen, CIO at Bank of the West, named three key factors in how businesses manage data during a panel discussion at the Benzinga Fintech Summit...

Trade Ideas, the fintech startup that uses artificial intelligence to pick stocks, has been named a finalist for the 2018 Benzinga Fintech Awards. The company was one of three chosen by an audience vote at the Benzinga Fintech Summit Sept. 28 in San Francisco. The Fintech Summit “exceeded...

Artificial intelligence adds yet another victory to its scorecard. The portfolio of Trade Ideas' virtual analyst and discovery engine, HOLLY, outperformed the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) in the first half of the year with pre-commissions returns around 39 percent ━ nearly five times...

Robo-advisors have burst onto the trading scene in recent years, and some estimates suggest these automated trading algorithms will be responsible for nearly half a trillion dollars of assets under management (AUM) by 2020. With that much money on the line, Trade Ideas co-founder and managing...

Anka Metcalf said she follows the entire universe. It's a lofty perch, for sure, but one that helps keep her on top of things. "I scan every night and every morning before the market opens," Metcalf told Benzinga's pre-market broadcast. "I use two monitors just for scanning." Metcalf has been...