VXX has been a hot topic on the desk at SMB during the recent increase in market volatility. If you aren’t aware, the VXX is an exchange traded note (ETN) issued by Barclays that has the objective of following the cost of owning implied volatility. The biggest challenge with owning implied volatility is that implied volatility has a limited shelf … Read More
Cool Technology With Some Great Ideas
In the past few years SMB has built some remarkable trading tools. We led the pack in moving to HTML5 years before others (can use on smartphones and tablets). But beyond the cool technology in Scanner, Radar, and Real Time it is the actual idea flow that comes from very experienced traders. Traders who have spent years learning how to … Read More
Options Strategies for Day Traders
In our SMBU Daily Video, learn options strategies day traders can use. In this video from Seth Freudberg, you will learn: How equity traders can benefit from options income strategies during less volatile markets The basic concepts of call and put options Example of a put credit spread trade in GOOG We hope this video helps you improve your trading … Read More
Three Ideas to Trade China (SMBU Daily Video)
In our SMBU Daily Video, we take a deeper look into trading China. In this video, Mike Bellafiore outlines 3 ways to trade China as a trader or investor. China ETFs Chinese individual stocks Volatility We hope this video helps you improve your trading skills. * no relevant positions
SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar: Mike Bellafiore, Co-Founder SMB Capital: The five most important habits to become and sustain as a profitable trader
Today, SMB Co-Founder and noted author Mike Bellafiore returns to the Options Tribe to share his observations about the habits that sustainably great traders develop as they progress in their trading careers on a proprietary trading desk.
Today’s Trading Highlights
Here are some quick highlights from today’s trading. In the AM meeting, Steve talked about the 208 resistance level that $SPY had failed to hold above numerous times. This was a level to be short from. With the overnight session looking calm and almost strong, this flew in the face of price action at the moment. The level held once again … Read More
Developing new traders into high performing traders at SMB (Podcast with TradingStory.com)
Mike Bellafiore was interviewed on TradingStory.com by Brandon Clay. To see more videos of interviewed traders go to TradingStoryPodcasts or get them on iTunes. Here is an excerpt from tradingstory.com……… Mike Bellafiore – the trading coach developing high performing traders. Mike co-founded SMB Capital with a focus on teaching new traders how to become consistently profitable traders. There is not … Read More
The Fourth Week of More Mindful Trading
In this post, I will continue my eight week experiment with cultivating mindfulness and trading. The earlier posts in the series can be found here: Eight Weeks to More Mindful Trading The Second Week of More Mindful Trading The Third Week of More Mindful Trading To bring new readers up to speed, here is a brief refresher on … Read More