Tuesday September 20, 2011 at 5:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time SMB’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members worldwide. Each week the community will meet online for the primary purpose of watching live presentations made by outstanding veteran options traders and experts in the world of … Read More
Reviewing the SMB Archives
In August and early September, the market seemed to rotate around two distinct type of trading days: 1. The momentum panic day, driven by major news, with lots of volume in the SPY 2. An uptrending grind or ‘melt-up’, characterized by a wide ranges, low volume and steep pullbacks that would shake a lot of traders out but seldom break … Read More
SMB’s Options Tribe Meeting, August 23: Condor Strategies
SMB’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members worldwide. Each week the community will meet online for the primary purpose of watching live presentations made by outstanding veteran options traders and experts in the world of options trading. On August 23rd, Seth Freudberg, the Director of … Read More
What I learned from my summer internship at SMB
A guest post from one of our summer interns, Chan, practicing his trading skills on the demo while back in school. I interned at SMB this summer and left with a lot of information and skills. I was taught a lot of things, I learned how to read the tape, the psychology of trading, how to control my emotions while … Read More
The nice thing about communicating at a desk (PEP)
A guest post written by trainee SW: Communication is one of the 7 fundamentals taught here at SMB. The nice thing about trading here is that traders are always sharing ideas and learning from one another. Today was not an exception. I was involved in PEP shorts in the morning. However, PEP couldn’t hold below the 62 level from yesterday. … Read More
Using my inner anger (TYC)
I was trading TYC after the huge volume spike and strong price action. @tarhini_smb chirped TYC after spotting in from The SMB Radar. 44.50 became my most important point of inflection. I started a core and traded around this. Well I tried to trade around my core. I tried taking off risk at prices where my risk/reward lessened. Well I … Read More
RIMM RIPper
I have blogged about RIMM a bunch of times in the past three years. In fact, I remember someone writing a comment after a post one time that the SMB blog only discusses five or six stocks including AAPL, FCX, RIMM, and CAT, to which I retorted poppycock! We discuss the stocks that are In Play. RIMM was probably my … Read More