“If I increase my stop then I will start making money.” This just might be the single silliest thing I have ever heard a trader say. No “trading is in my genes” is. I will offer a path to profitability to consider. Look there is no one right way to achieve your goal but there are definitely wrong paths. Adding … Read More
December 55-Day RUT Bearish Butterfly Options Trade Update: Unleashing Profit Opportunities
The market has settled quite nicely into the range of our position. Currently the trade is up $775 and looking good. The position is shown below: If $RUT actually settles down for a change we just might get the opportunity to close this next week at our $3000 profit target and round off an excellent year for this trade. If … Read More
Free Options Webinar: SMB’s Options Tribe: Today at 5pm EDT: Earnings Plays combining Monthly and Weekly Options
Today at 5:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time SMB’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members worldwide. Each week the community will meet online for the primary purpose of watching live presentations made by outstanding veteran options traders and experts in the world of options trading. This … Read More
Collaborative learning and your trading
I received this email last night about using collaboration as a way to improve learning. this is Sam H, from a while back. Anyway, let Mike know that UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) is using the collaborative method your training involves. My review of the book (One Good Trade), as you may remember, spoke to this kind of learning as ideal. I … Read More
Less Is More–Usually
Less is more—most of the time. In my early days, I started out with almost twenty different indicators in a single system—and why not; the computer was going to do all the work. I figured that if I combined enough techniques, I could find the perfect entry signals—I hadn’t even thought about the importance of exits back then. Well, needless … Read More
There Is No Holy Grail In Trading
I wanted to respond to a couple of observations from our readers: The first: “If you’re talking a pure technical (trend-following or countertrend based on indicators) system on highly liquid vehicles like QQQ, “getting a real world system to work” is insanely difficult….I’m looking forward to this series, skeptical though I am.” And the second: “It’s simple enough to create … Read More
Free Options Webinar: SMB’s Options Tribe: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 5pm EDT: Earnings Plays combining Monthly and Weekly Options
Tuesday November 15, 2011 at 5:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time SMB’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members worldwide. Each week the community will meet online for the primary purpose of watching live presentations made by outstanding veteran options traders and experts in the world of … Read More
Forex Trade
More pips and more pips! A trade in the AUD/USD on 11/08/2011 after price panic, we found good rebounds at the end of the day. A good example of recognizing market psychology and price behavior. For more of our trades, follow me on twitter