Mike Bellafiore is a co-founder of SMB Capital, a NYC based proprietary trading firm recognized for its exceptional 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, through trading stories and his own trades.

SMB Capital has been featured in Trader Monthly.  SMB’s training program has been highlighted on the TV documentary “Wall Street Warriors”.   Recently SMB Capital has regularly appeared on CNBC’s Fast Money.  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 speaker at the 2009 International Traders Expo in NYC.  Mr. Bellafiore has also been published in SFO Magazine.  Currently Mike is writing a book for Wiley publishing, “One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading” to be released in 2010.

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.