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Well, I hope everyone is preparing for the rapture because the Saints are going to the Super Bowl. Not sure how that one happened. However, they made it while punishing my Mississippi friend Brett Farve. Not sure who everyone will be routing for on this one, but it should be a lot of fun.

Otherwise, things could not have been busier here. (Both personally and professionally) I have been running around with my head cut off and realized that I have been lax in my blogging here. I apologize for that. Since we last talked, we have rolled out the changes for OSI to the Scottrader and ScottradeELITE platforms. I hope that you are finding you way around the changes easily and seamlessly. I know the changes are fairly big in terms of functionality but we tried to make them as smooth as possible for you. Let me know what you think of them.

In other news, we are beginning work on the next ScottradeELITE rollout that should be out in late first quarter. We will let you know more about this as time passes.

Hope all is and has been well. Happy Trading.

Todd
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Posted by The ELITE Trader on Jan 26, 2010 8:34 AM CST

Good morning everyone,

So, you ever wonder if there is an easier way to see your account history? I have people from time to time tell me that it is annoying that they have to log into the website to see the confirmations and statements. They are equally happy when they realize this is not necessary. If you click on the Activity button you will get the option for intraday activity and Account History from Scottrade.com. If you click on the second link you are taken to the account history page from the website. Here you have access to transactions, canceled orders, completed orders, confirmations, account statements and tax statements. This will help with any account research that you need for your records.

Happy trading,
Todd
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Posted by The ELITE Trader on Jan 13, 2010 9:47 AM CST

Give the Govenor a her-rumpff!

Ah, Mel Brooks. Great comedy. Where we all get made fun of. So, how many people are looking for a specific field within Quote Grid and Full Quote. I hear people all the time asking about certain items and if we have them. Chances are, we do. There are over 360 different fields to choose from within the Settings menu. If you are in the Quote Grid, click on the Settings button on the menu bar. This will give you two choices: Visual Settings and Field Selection. Under the field selection you will see many folders with a number of fields in each. Simply open/expand a folder to see all the fields that are available. Each heading should give an idea as to what you will find within. Take some time to check it out.

Then give me a her-rumpff. If  you still don't see what you are looking for, give Mongo a call. Mongo like field selections. Seriously though, respond back if there is something you would be interested in seeing in the future.

Happy trading,
Todd
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Posted by The ELITE Trader on Jan 12, 2010 8:34 AM CST

Darling, tramps like us, baby we were born to run!

So I listened to a little Bruce Springsteen on the way into work today.What's wrong with that. We are back in the office from a great weekend in Indianapolis. We had a great time and I want to thank the city for welcoming the circus that is a Scottrade User Summit. If you were there you had the opportunity to meet some new faces to the traveling road show.

Big props to the community in there first official User Summit. Nina Card, the leader of the community team, and Zach Long (the newest member of the Scottrade team) maned the booth where many were able to learn about the community. Zach made his first public speaking appearance without saying "dude" for the most part. It was a great time.

Next up, Dallas. Come check us out if you have not had the opportunity to do so.

Talk again soon and best trading wishes for the week ahead.

Todd
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Posted by The ELITE Trader on Jan 11, 2010 8:51 AM CST

Good Morning To All,

Seriously, Eric Roberts is a great actor. He just gets overshawdowed by his sister all the time. Could you imagine Christmas dinner? Well Eric, what have you done worth while this year? Can't you at least match the gross from Mystic Pizza? Ouch! I feel for the guy.

However, he was in one movie that actually calls to attention what I wanted to talk about today. The movie was Best of the Best. Fun flick. Throw it on your netflix list. How do you find the best of the best? Simple, click on Top Performers. There is so much good information here to help you find opportunities.

When you open Top Performers, you will see two drop downs. One says exchange and the other says type. You can select from any of the major exhanges, then select from type. Type allows you to choose from most actives, net gainers, net losers, percent gainers, percent losers, etc. This will allow you to see the top 15 in each category. The updates come across every 15 seconds to allow you to see what is going on before changing on you.

You also have the opportunity to look up similar types for options. These are located under the type menu. When you select one of these, it will grey out the selection process for exchange. This is done because the option feed is now consolidated.

Hope this helps out. And don't forget, Eric Roberts. He was great in the Killers music video for Mr. Brightside.

Talk soon and happy trading,

Todd
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Posted by The ELITE Trader on Jan 7, 2010 9:55 AM CST

Good Morning Everyone,

So hopefully I have your attention. Does anyone ever wonder how they can find news relevant to what they are looking for? I know I have wanted that in the past. (Insert info-mercial voice here) WELL HERE IT IS!

All kidding aside, go ahead and open up the News window within ScottradeELITE. Here you will begin to see scrolling news headlines as they come across the wire. However, this is not always relevant to your situation. On the menu bar, there is a button for Dow Jones Help. Click on this and you will see and User Guide for Dow Jones News. This is a 20 page document that has some great tips and more importantly symbols for you to use. For example, I live in Missouri and may be interested in what is going on in my state. I can use the symbol r/mo and I will get all headlines related to Missouri. There are hundreds of symbols like this that you can use. Browse through the guide and see what is relevant to you. You may find what you have been wanting all along.

Good day and great trading!

Todd
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Posted by The ELITE Trader on Jan 6, 2010 8:30 AM CST

Good morning again everyone,

I wanted to take a second and talk to you about Market Statistics. You may ask what all you can find: Advance/Decline changes for all exchanges, short market recap, major indicies returns (Dow, S&P, NASDAQ, NYSE, AMEX, Russell, S&P100, S&P400, etc.), broad indicies, sectors, breadth (volatility), fixed income, currencies, commodities, and charts for all of the above. That is a lot for one page right. Where in the world is this hiding?

Simple, go to the Research button on ScottradeELITE. Then you will see Market Snapshot, go ahead and click on that. Then the page will open and on the left hand column you will see Market Statistics. This will take you to the page that you want to see. Use this page for help in your research. It is a macro view of what is going on in the markets and gives you some insight to trends.

With the charting, you can apply technical indicators or even compare charts. Even better, you get Scottrade Smart Text that will guide you to a better understanding of what the indicators are saying.

I hope this helps you out a little. Take care and happy trading.

Todd
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Posted by The ELITE Trader on Jan 5, 2010 8:38 AM CST

Good morning everyone!

Guess what, everything that happened last year is gone. Everything that you did right or wrong in trading (or what ever else for that matter) is behind us. It is time for a new game. It is a great feeling. I have been spending the last week or so preparing for what is sure to be a great year ahead of us.

At Scottrade, we have been preparing for this year since around July. We have a lot in store. There will be some new things this year that you will certainly enjoy.

For myself, I have been evaluating how I traded last year and how the results looked. Taking the best outcomes and examining why they were good, taking the worst and doing the same, and understanding how to better manage the situation: that was the approach I took in evaluating myself. (of course that goes beyond just trading too)

At any rate, we can all embrace hope for the new year. Remember: "A foolish man is one who does the same thing and expects different results." I look forward to talking with everyone throughout the new year and wish everyone a properous start here.

Talk soon,
Todd
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Posted by The ELITE Trader on Jan 4, 2010 8:19 AM CST

Good Morning,

Welcome back. I just returned from the Fort Lauderdale User Summit. For those of you that were there, thank you for supporting our event. For those of you that were not there, your loss. We are not doing ANY more this year. No more. Never again in 2009! How about them apples?!?!?! We just finished our 2009 schedule and what a year it was. Started in Orlando in January and finished in Fort Lauderdale in December (I promise that was on accident...maybe). We had a great time meeting everyone that we did. I hope you were able to take something away.

If you did miss us, well I guess you could always check us out next year. We start right back up on January the 9th in Indianapolis. We will also be in Dallas at the end of January. We will be hitting another 23 cities total in 2010 so please look us up. It would be great to see you out there. I certainly appreciate the support as do all my cohorts that I travel with. For that matter, if you want to go hang out please let me know as these guys are getting boring. Seriously Kevin, I can only hear your stories so many times.

All kidding aside, please enjoy the Christmas holidays. I will be spending time with family and cooking. Enjoy yourselves. Let's all start getting ready for a great 2010.

Talk soon,
Todd
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Posted by The ELITE Trader on Dec 23, 2009 9:07 AM CST

Hey Everyone,

I just wanted to drop in and let everyone know what they have probably figured out by now. We have delayed the rollout that was scheduled for last night. There were some concerns around one of the pieces that we were trying to implement. We are re-working this part right now. We will reach out to you once we know when we will go forward with the rollout.

Thank you for your understanding. We will keep you informed as we get more clearification ourselves.

Todd
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Posted by The ELITE Trader on Dec 16, 2009 12:10 PM CST
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