Lessons Learned in Chicago From Experienced Traders from smbcapital This week I visited Chicago and with experienced traders covering different products and in different structures. I visited with traders at hedge funds, prop firms, broker dealers, trading education centers, independent traders, exchanges, and institutions. These seasoned veterans expressed their ideas in options, futures, stocks, automated trading, and international markets. … Read More
Trading Idea to Optimized Portfolio Backtest: A Guide
Andrew shows you an example of taking a signal idea and quickly documenting a series of tests. The entire process took a few hours and represents 15 years, 120+ stocks, and 10s of thousands of back trades. * no relevant positions
Losing Less on Bad Days
What’s your number? In this video Mike Bellafiore discusses why it’s so important to know what your stop-loss number is when you’re down on the day. Traders spend too much time trying to turn a bad trading day into a break-even or positive day. They don’t spend enough time on learning how to turn a positive day into an even … Read More
Backtesting is Way Different from Live Trading
Backtesting is necessary to develop a system but not sufficient to prove YOU can make money. In this video Seth Freudberg discusses: Mid-prices not easy in fast market Testing software data may be imperfect Mid-price may be a distortion—synthetic equivalent may be more accurate. Multiple trades means you may not be attending to the one being tested. Emotion—do you have the strength … Read More
SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar: Andrew Falde of SMBU: Three ways to reduce draw downs on options trades and smooth your equity curve.
This week Andrew Falde returns to the Options Tribe to discuss methods that he has developed to reduce drawdowns on options trades including his techniques for avoiding whipsaw losses and his rationale for varying the size, width, and time based on current market conditions.
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A Long Trade in Oil
In this video I discuss a recent swing trade in oil. One thing I should have mentioned in the video is that if you want to intra-day trade oil futures is the way to go. Because of the global nature of this commodity many of its cleanest moves happen outside of US stock trading hours. Steven Spencer is the co-founder of … Read More
Here is how you win as a trader
Below is wonderful video for you to watch to help build your inner coach from Brett Ledbetter. Take 15 minutes and watch it this weekend. It will give you many ideas to improve as a trader. Now the subject matter in this video is sports performance. Sports after all is a performance game. Trading is also a performance game. … Read More