Embrace Progress: You Can Be Better Tomorrow Than You Are Today! (video)

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The other week I presented at #Stocktoberfest the @Stocktwits event masterminded by @howardlindzon. My presentation was titled: 8 Ideas from the Prop Desk to Improve Your Trading. Below is the final part of the video series. In this video Mike shares a philosophy that drives his firm: 1) You can be better tomorrow than you are today! (his personal mantra and … Read More

Trader’s Ask: I’ve got a family and a full time job—how can I trade for financial freedom?

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Hi Seth, I am a 51 year old man from Florence, Italy and I want to learn options trading  for financial freedom. During the last five years I have day traded futures…… I am having mixed results. A couple of years ago I started to study the Market Profile ( Jim Dalton’s approach to auctions in the financial markets). I am … Read More

The Impact of Dividend Cuts on Stock Trading (Seadrill Case Study)

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In the premarket Seadrill, an offshore driller, announced it was suspending its dividend as this headlines shows: This is news of changing fundamentals in a stock that gets my attention.  When a company suspends its dividend many shareholders HAVE to sell as that offering no longer fits their investment strategy.  Further the suspension of a dividend signals financial weakness in … Read More

SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar: Noted Author Jeff Augen: Finding Ideal Entry And Exit Points when Trading Options

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December 2, 2014 Today’s markets are almost entirely driven by algorithmic trading – a new dynamic that invalidates most technical indicators.  The PhaseTrader® indicators were developed to address this problem.  They are designed to detect and respond to the activities of program trading systems in a variety of financial markets, and they are currently licensed by hundreds of individual subscribers … Read More

SMB Trading Lessons of the Week of November 23, 2014

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Bella discusses an anecdote about a great automated trader who was formerly a failed discretionary trader. In this video Bruce Bower discusses decision making from his visualization series. Latest Blog Posts Hopeville: Where Traders Go To Die There are times when I am required to give a mentoring student some tough love, because it’s important for me to convey, immediately, … Read More

Don’t Lose the Trade Before You Enter It

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Trading is similar to playing sports at an elite level, they‘re both mentally demanding. In fact it is quite common in sports for a highly gifted athlete with a compromised mindset to lose miserably against a much less talented competitor utilizing the proper mindset. Trading is the same way. You can know everything about charting, indicators and options. You can … Read More

Lesson 2: Trading Is Peak Performance

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Continuing the series Seven Lessons I’ve Learned, I wanted to talk about the right lens or framework for understanding trading. Is it “combat”, is it a “sport”, or is it “a treasure hunt”? All of these are valid metaphors for describing some aspect, but I don’t feel that it captures the essence of the activity. Instead, peak performance is the … Read More