News can cause major movements in the currency markets. Many newer traders like to believe that it is possible to trade news events profitably. That idea gets really old fast and/or your account goes to zero faster. Either way as the newer trader gains experience they realize news trading isn’t the most productive strategy. The question is how can we … Read More
A Note to Traders on the Absence of Liquidity
SMB Traders, The last two trading days have been the worst liquidity I have ever seen. Obviously the huffiness on the desk is high. IMO is should be. I have not been this mad on a desk in three years myself trading this ridiculous market. The market is broken. And some of these moves are absurd. Having said that GMan was still … Read More
Knight Falls
When US equities markets opened yesterday a 9:30AM EDT many stocks were more illiquid than usual (the norm for our markets is very little liquidity during the first 30 minutes of trading). On our desk you could hear Bella barking about erratic price behavior and lack of liquidity. We fired off emails to our broker dealer and technology providers trying … Read More
Wall Street Weekend with Mike Bellafiore – Singapore
Join Mike Bellafiore, author of the “trading classic” One Good Trade for the US Equities Training Program Seminar in Singapore on Aug 24th – September 20th, 2012. For more information, please click here
Yesterday’s Option tribe:Weekly Broken Wing Butterflies on SPX – Greg Loehr and Chris Stockton
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 trading.This week, Weekly Broken Wing Butterflies on SPX was … Read More