The cycles of trading. Do we get worse sometimes if we overthink and get too caught up in things? @mikebellafiore I was asked this question during a recent Webinar “Trading Fundamentals: Things Great Traders Do and Never Do”. Gr8 question! Yes, traders can over-think. I sat in our conference room yesterday with one of our brightest traders who has been … Read More
$CREE Went Down & $NTAP Went Up
Following their respective earnings releases $CREE and $NTAP both gapped lower. Yet during our morning meeting I discussed trading $CREE on the short side and $NTAP on the long side. What was different about their price action that caused me to focus on a particular bias? If you look at the longer term charts below they seem fairly similar yet … Read More
Avoiding Common Mistakes in Trading Weekly Options
Options with weekly expirations offer a huge improvement to the learning process for new option traders. You can increase your screen time very rapidly and see how just seven days’ difference might change how two positions react to a move in the markets. When weekly options were first introduced they quickly became a favorite vehicle to trade for many options … Read More
How to Trade In-the-Money Call Options
Go long! No, we don’t mean sending the wide receiver out for a long pass. We’re talking about using the most basic of options trades: initiating a position with a call option instead of buying 100 shares of a stock to create a long position. Options are a great way to take a position in a stock or an index. … Read More
The Scalable Trader
Hi, I attended the 2nd Day session with Mike during Ifest Singapore 2013. I am blown apart by the depth taken to create SMB trading protocols and the rational behind them. I was particularly pleased with Risk allocation technique created by Mike (that was simply brilliant). A sample can be seen here (http://www.smbtraining.com/blog/did-you-trade-well-part-i). For the first time, I am … Read More
How to Choose an Options Trading Platform
A key consideration in finding the right options broker for you is knowing which features of the broker’s trading platform are important to your options trading strategies. There are some very different approaches to delivering charts and quotes. So some of the questions you should be asking when considering an options trading platform are as follows: 1) What options for … Read More
Rodney’s Venn Diagram
Good evening Bella! Enjoyed your recent Webinar, and finished up The Playbook recently, a good read! You’ve really given me some great feedback when I’ve emailed you before, and it’s been very helpful in my progression. Working on moving from CPT to YBT! I just wanted to pass along this little image I put together. It’s nothing fancy, but I’m … Read More
Recording: Noted Author Jeff Augen Introduces the Weekly Short Butterfly Trade
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 veteran options traders and experts in the world of options trading. On August 20 renowned options educator Jeffrey Augen introduced … Read More