Attention Students! Do you want to gain an edge over your peers? Do you want to start preparing for a career in trading? SMB is proud to launch our new SMB College Traders Program website. Please check out some of our unique student opportunities for you What’s better than costume parties, $1 dollar beers, and tailgates? An opportunity to start … Read More
College Traders Training Programs Overview
Last week Leo Selya conducted a Webinar overview on SMB’s summer College Traders training programs. If you’re still not sure what you want to do this coming summer, you might want to watch this video, and you can do that by submitting the form below.
Steve Spencer named one of: “The 106 Finance People You Have to Follow On Twitter” by Business Insider
Steven Spencer, @sspencer_smb, was recently named one of “The 106 Finance People You Have to Follow on Twitter” by Business Insider. To read the full list, please click here. Nice Job Steve! Well deserved! Written by the SMBU Team
Webinar Recording–“Trading Fundamentals: Things Great Traders Do and Never Do” with Mike Bellafiore and John Hoagland
If you missed this special presentation on “Trading Fundamentals: Things Great Traders Do and Never Do” with Mike Bellafiore and John Hoagland from TopstepTrader.com, this is your opportunity to watch it. They discussed what separates great traders from the rest of the pack. Please sign up below to watch the recording: no relevant positions
Put Options Basics: How to Protect a Position or Earn a Profit If a Stock Price Declines
What is a put option? A put option gives the purchaser the right but not the obligation to sell 100 shares of the underlying stock for a set price, the strike price of the option. This is true except at expiration, when a “long-in-the-money put option” is automatically exercised by the Options Clearing Corporation unless you instruct your broker not … Read More
Beginner’s Guide to Call Options: How They Work and What Happens after You Buy
What is a call option? A single call stock option gives the buyer the right but not the obligation (except at expiration) to purchase 100 shares of the underlying stock for a set price (the strike price). Some options can’t be settled with the purchase of the underlying like an index (you can’t buy an index!), in which case the … Read More
A Trade from a PlayBook Reader
An SMB reader, who is not on our desk (yet?), read The PlayBook and was inspired to co-opt a particular concept for her own trading. We encourage all our readers to develop a methodology for your trading. Building a PlayBook of the trades that make the most sense to you is that methodology. Here is her PlayBook trade. Mike Bellafiore … Read More
Forex Workshop Today: Analyzing Stocks With Forex Methodology
The methodology that we use to analyze and trade forex and futures works just as well in the stock market. Why? Because it is based on the psychology of crowd mentality. When trading stocks, some specific considerations must be made. Join Marc Principato, CMT on Monday, July 29, 2013 at 4:30pm ET, for a truly interactive Webinar where he will … Read More