Trade Ideas

Trade Ideas was founded in 2003 by a team of financial technology entrepreneurs who had already been leaders in the Self Directed Investment movement. Investors were looking to manage more of their own money instead of having other people do it for them for a fee.

Fueled in the 90’s by the overall technology boom of the Internet, online trading brokerages like E*Trade and TD Ameritrade allowed investors easy access to the market. Other types of brokerage firms sprung up to cater to the more active investor, sometimes known as the “Day Trader”. People looking at the market were desperate to find good stocks. The question is, how do you catch them, as they happen in real-time? The founders decided to call the new company Trade Ideas to distill it to the very basic essence of investing. Every investment first starts as an idea, and when it is placed, it becomes a trade. Hence the name Trade Ideas.