Paper Trading: Does it Help or Hurt?

mprincipatoMarc Principato, SMB Forex1 Comment

When it comes to paper trading, there seems to be two strongly opinionated sides to its purpose in helping traders learn how to trade. There are the opponents and this group usually includes brokers (I wonder why). Their argument goes something like this: Paper trading is something you want to do for maybe a week or so in order to … Read More

Webinar: The Future of Trading By Mike Bellafiore with BigMikeTrading

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Below is a webinar on The Future of Trading with Mike Bellafiore, author of The PlayBook and One Good Trade, presenting to the BigMikeTrading community. Mike discusses: * How pro traders are crystallizing their favorite setups * How pro traders are expressing their favorite setups in other products * How pro traders are becoming more bionic and leveraging the power … Read More

Today: Webinar with Mike Bellafiore and Mike from BigMikeTrading.com

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Join us for a special Webinar, “The Future of Trading: The Multi-market, Multi-product, Discretionary, Quant Trader”, with Mike Bellafiore and Mike from BigMikeTrading.com today, Tuesday, November 12 at 4:30pm ET. The topics of discussion are: * How pro traders are crystallizing their favorite setups * How pro traders are expressing their favorite setups in other products * How pro traders … Read More

Mike Bellafiore at Phillip iFest 2013, Singapore

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Mike Bellafiore recently was the keynote speaker at iFest in Asia.  You can find slides of his trading presentation here.  Below is a picture of this 800 person event at Marina Bay Sands Casino in Singapore.   An international lecturer, Mr. Bellafiore has built trader training programs globally for hedge funds, prop trading desks, and retail traders, working with some of … Read More

What is a Growth Stock?

BellaMike Bellafiore's (Bella's) Blogs1 Comment

This week I wrote a post Study Trading not Markets ($TSLA) where I shared the power of studying trading patterns over stock fundamentals. After all I play the game of trading pro not economics professor or Uber-Confident Financial Media Entertainment Complex Guest. My job is to make excellent risk/reward decisions with my firm’s money to which for some trades longer term … Read More

Forex: Too Much Information

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Ever been in one of those conversations with a friend who doesn’t know how to filter his story and includes the kind of detail about a hot date that you really didn’t need to know? We all have. Your friend just painted a visual picture of details that not only provides absolutely no value to you whatsoever, but can even … Read More