Bella’s Bio
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Mike Bellafiore is the author of One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading (Wiley Trading) and co-founder of SMB Capital, a proprietary trading firm in NYC. SMB has been recognized for offering an outstanding intraday equities training program. Bella’s blog offers new and developing traders ideas on how to improve their trading. Mike will share the lessons the market has taught him over the past twelve years, wrapped inside of trading stories and his own trades.
SMB Capital regularly appears on CNBC’s Fast Money. SMB’s training program has been highlighted on the TV documentary “Wall Street Warriors“. Every Sunday night at 8:30 PM EST Mr. Bellafiore hosts the educational internet show SMB University on StockTwits TV. Mike’s trading techniques were noted in “The Daily Trading Coach: 101 Lessons for Becoming Your Own Trading Psychologist“, written by Dr.
Steenbarger. Mr. Bellafiore was a guest speaker at the 2009 and 2010 International Traders Expo in NYC. Mr. Bellafiore has also been published in SFO Magazine.
Mr. Bellafiore is a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law and a former member of the University of Connecticut Board of Trustees. He has traded his own account professionally for more than a decade. Mr. Bellafiore welcomes your comments and/or questions at mbellafiore@smbcap.com.














