How Is The Market Reacting To Fear?

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As professional market participants part of our job is to make decisions when real world events spill over into the markets that we are trading. In this video I offer some thoughts on the trading environment following the terrorist attacks that took place in Paris. Steven Spencer is the co-founder of SMB Capital and SMB University which provides trading education in stocks, options, … Read More

Invest in your trading business

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Invest in your trading business! One constant theme on our trading desk is encouraging traders to invest in themselves. One 500k-a-year trader on our desk didn’t want to spend $190 a month on an options platform that could make him an extra 50-100k a year.  When we laid out these numbers he quickly realized this folly. Recently I encouraged 8 … Read More

Options Filters

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In our SMBU Daily Video, learn how you can use filters to adjust your position sizing. In this video from Andrew Falde, you will learn: Using volatility based sizing How to get better consistency in your trading An example in a momentum based strategy We hope this video helps you improve your trading skills. – SMBU Team   * no relevant positions

A lesson on trading bigger

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  Our firm made a large trade this month in a stock overbought.  I was waiting and waiting and waiting for one of our senior traders to close his trade and offer congratulations.  The trade kept working and working and working so it took him days to finally close out. The discussion afterwards proves constructive to those seeking to trade … Read More

Developing Trading Habits

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In our SMBU Daily Video, Mike Bellafiore sits down with Maxim from Hamaha.net to discuss trading habits. In this video you will learn: What to judge your trading off of The importance of developing a process Breaking down your trading into smaller parts We hope this video helps you improve your trading skills. – SMBU Team * no relevant positions