I am often asked what I consider the most important indicator when managing a trade from start to finish. My answer has nothing to do with a chart or any system trading indicator associated with it. My answer? Psychology. From personal experience, I consider trading to be 100% psychological. All of our choices, from the type of price chart employed, … Read More
Trading Psychology: The Power of Recording Your Emotions (Video)
I am cranky today as I share in our free daily video. I share a best practice with trade psychology that you can incorporate into your trading in our latest video. Learn to record your mood before each open and find patterns with your trade results that can improve your PnL. I hope that my foul mood today can help … Read More
The PlayBook Released in China (and a lesson for traders)
The PlayBook was just released in China! I want to thank my good friend Naida Liu for the translation and finding a Chinese publisher. Naida also translated One Good Trade into Mandarin and hopefully it will be released as well. For those who do not know, the Chinese markets are considering new trading rules to allow for short-term trading. They … Read More
SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar: SMB’s Options Desk Traders: Trading on a proprietary options trading desk
Today, traders who were successfully trained by SMBU’s Options Mentoring program, and who were, as a result, invited to trade on SMB’s Options Trading desk, will discuss and answer questions about what it’s like to trade on a professional proprietary options trading desk. Submit your questions for what should prove to be an interesting and lively session!
How a Real Trader Uses SMB TOOLS
As a subscriber to SMB real time, I found the tools in this package to be an important part of my trading preparation and day. Selecting stocks very in play use to take so much effort, the scanner has cut that time by 75% and eliminates researching the essentials such as volume, ATR, % float short…all that is on the … Read More
SMBU Trade of the Week ($ERJ)
In our SMB Free Daily Video, we discuss our Trade of the Day in $ERJ. Learn to use a significant change in a stock’s fundamentals to enter excellent risk/reward trades. I hope this video gives you some ideas to help your trading. Trade well! Sign up to get our daily video delivered to your inbox. Mike Bellafiore is the Co-Founder of … Read More
SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar: Paul Forchione, Optionvue Systems, International: Options Strategies for Trading Crude Oil Futures
The crude oil market has captured everyone’s attention because it has declined almost 60% over the last 7 months. Today on the Options Tribe, Option Strategist Paul Forchione of Optionvue Systems International will show how he selects and analyzes crude oil futures options strategies suitable for a variety of directional and volatility outlooks.
Trading in $APOL (video)
In this video I explain and review my trading in $APOL. 3 trades were losers. 1 was a big loser. 1 was a small winner. That happens. What is most important is that you learn and judge your trades based upon whether they were good ideas or not. Even though I was decidedly negative trading $APOL, it was the right stock … Read More