Trading Vault Concept – “When charts are in a trend, we are often tempted to pick bottoms or tops because we FEEL a chart has reversed enough. The slightest drift over or under a level, we trigger our trades to initiate a trade in the direction of the move, but in these markets breakout and breakdown levels … Read More
How to Filter Out Noise and Make Better Decisions
By Bruce Bower We asked the SMB community which topics they wanted to learn more about it in the upcoming “Peak Performance Trading and Investing” video course. Out of a list of ten topics, second place was ”Checklists – How to Filter Out The Noise and Make Better Decisions”. This is an interesting topic because in order to discuss it, … Read More
Consistency Is Not A Game of Perfect
By Bruce Bower We asked and you chose. The people have spoken. We asked the SMB community which topics they wanted to learn more about it in the upcoming “Peak Performance Trading and Investing” video course. Out of a list of ten topics, by far the most popular was “How to Be More Consistent”. This is one of the most … Read More
What this College Trader Can Teach You
A graduate of our college summer training program pinged me about visiting. Hi Bella, I’ve taken the SMB Foundation for college students last summer with RJ, Dan, and Andreas, opened up an account (edited) and have been trading since September. I don’t know if you remember me, but I’m the guy from Toronto who plays ping pong. I’ll be visiting … Read More
The Education of a Trader: Trading on Tilt
Our friends at Tradeciety.com asked: How do you deal with emotions in your daily trading? What are your tips and suggestions that help you avoid, if possible, making emotional and psychologically caused trading mistakes. @MikeBellafiore Trading on tilt is the 800 pound gorilla on every trading station. On our desk today there were a few desk slams in this $FB, Facebook, … Read More
The Third Week of More Mindful Trading
The Third Week of More Mindful Trading In this post, I will continue my eight week experiment with cultivating mindfulness and trading. The first two posts in the series can be found here: Eight Weeks to More Mindful Trading The Second Week of More Mindful Trading To bring new readers up to speed, here is a brief refresher on mindfulness. … Read More
Enhancing Trader Performance: The tendency to twaddle
If you have nothing to say, say nothing. – Mark Twain Have you ever been on the receiving end of a conversation or listened to an explanation and thought, “what the heck did he just say?” Or have you read something and had to reread something several times to figure out its meaning? If you have it is usually not because … Read More
The Three-Step Process For a Trader or Investor
**This is the third in a series of posts from Bruce Bower related to “Peak Performance” the topic of his new book that SMB U will be releasing April 20th** By Bruce Bower When investing or trading, we obviously all want to be a success. We get in to the markets because we want to make money, to have a good retirement, and … Read More