When it comes to order flow, many newer traders tend to think of volume bars or time and sales information. It is much more than that, and it really helps to understand the premise behind how markets facilitate order flow. It may not give you an immediate strategy to make money with, but what it does is provides an added … Read More
The Scalable Trader
Hi, I attended the 2nd Day session with Mike during Ifest Singapore 2013. I am blown apart by the depth taken to create SMB trading protocols and the rational behind them. I was particularly pleased with Risk allocation technique created by Mike (that was simply brilliant). A sample can be seen here (http://www.smbtraining.com/blog/did-you-trade-well-part-i). For the first time, I am … Read More
How to Choose an Options Trading Platform
A key consideration in finding the right options broker for you is knowing which features of the broker’s trading platform are important to your options trading strategies. There are some very different approaches to delivering charts and quotes. So some of the questions you should be asking when considering an options trading platform are as follows: 1) What options for … Read More
Rodney’s Venn Diagram
Good evening Bella! Enjoyed your recent Webinar, and finished up The Playbook recently, a good read! You’ve really given me some great feedback when I’ve emailed you before, and it’s been very helpful in my progression. Working on moving from CPT to YBT! I just wanted to pass along this little image I put together. It’s nothing fancy, but I’m … Read More
Recording: Noted Author Jeff Augen Introduces the Weekly Short Butterfly Trade
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. On August 20 renowned options educator Jeffrey Augen introduced … Read More
Another Great Look at an “Income” Trade
After holding a couple of free live webcasts over the past month discussing earnings trades and adjustments, here’s yet another look at an “income” type of trade. This one popped up as a trade yesterday as the VIX starting pushing 15. But the reason for the move up in volatility becomes a two-edged sword.
Warm Up Your Trading Brain
During a weekly review one of our developing traders wrote: Summary: It was an ok week P&L wise but it should have been a much better week given the opportunities we had in the macro plays. With the SPY breaking key support level, there were many ETFs that were In Play e.g. GLD, GDX, FAS, IYR and the TLT. I wasn’t properly … Read More
S&P Trend Change In Effect
Marc Principato, CMT conducts price action analysis on S&P 500 CFD, EUR/USD, GBP/USD and AUD/USD for weekly setups. [purehtml id=32] Subscribe:http://www.bit.ly/utraderyt Subscribe to my Youtube channel: http://www.bit.ly/utraderyt Help me write my book: http://www.unconventionaltrader.com Training Info: http://www.bit.ly/smbhome My analysis on TradingView.com: http://bit.ly/tviewprfle Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/marcpmarkets Webinar and Trade Review Archive: http://bit.ly/archpge