Mike/Bella/Mr. Bellafiore, First, I can’t thank you enough for all you’ve done for the trading community. I’ve learned orders of magnitude more from the fruits of your efforts than from any other single source since I’ve started trading. You’re doing great things. My question is about tape reading. How would you describe the difference between tape action that signals a … Read More
Free Options Webinar: SMB’s Options Tribe: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 5pm EST: Broken Wing Butterflies
Tuesday January 31, 2011 at 5:00 pm Eastern Standard 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 veteran options traders and experts in the world of options … Read More
Measuring Opportunity Intraday
After having trading professionally for 16 years I still find the lack of understanding among friends and family as to how myself and other short term traders make a living humorous. Here are some of the comments I still hear on a regular basis from my parents and close friends “Market was flat today so I guess you didn’t make … Read More
Forex. price expectation
A trade in GBP/USD using our psychological price expectation patterns. A trade that started from our daily chart and ended as a swing trade. related articles: a good time to trade, the real market trend, forex correlation. follow me on twitter
The March Bearish Butterfly Trade
This post is the first in a series that we will be publishing over the next several weeks, tracking the hypothetical performance of the bearish butterfly trade as it would have been handled according to our guidelines contained in SMB’s Bearish Butterfly Video Series. On Friday, we initiated the March bearish butterfly trade in the $RUT. If this was an … Read More
Free Options Webinar: SMB’s Options Tribe: Today, January 24, 2012 at 5pm EST: Crude oil options and “edge”
Today January 24, 2011 at 5:00 pm Eastern Standard 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 veteran options traders and experts in the world of options … Read More
The Lense Matters
One of the questions I am asked most frequently by aspiring traders is what time frame do I use on my charts for intraday trades. My stock answer (no pun intended) is that from 9:30-10:00 I am looking at 1min or tick charts and then I zoom out to 5min. But recently I have found that a 15 minute view … Read More
SMB Radar Play ACOM
we received the following email from a Radar subscriber today (post originally written january 9th): Subject: SMB Radar play in ACOM today Question: Dear Bella, I am trying to develop certain plays based on the SMB Radar that I call SMB Radar Strong and SMB Radar Weak. My thoughts are that I’ll check the names on the strong and weak … Read More