I was long WLT two weeks ago as it was trending higher from 11 to 14. Then they made an announcement after the close about a new financing deal and it gapped lower the next morning causing me to give back a decent chunk of my profits. After trading down to 12 in the morning where it did huge volume … Read More
New Fatherhood and Trading
They say that fatherhood changes everything and I can confirm that it does. At 42 my life changed completely when Luke entered the world. How you ask? My downtime is gone. After work I used to enjoy some downtime with Hardball, PTI and the Yankees. Now as soon as I walk in the door, I get the immediate hand-off from … Read More
The Round Tripper
It is not every day that you are able to catch a trend in both directions in a stock. FB has been a short term trader’s delight for the past five trading days. Media coverage hit a fever pitch today with FB tagging its otherwise meaningless “IPO price” of $38. The fact that it has been moving higher since last … Read More
Perception or Reality?
I have been long VMW since I bought it yesterday at the Open around 79.50. It closed near its high so I held it as a swing position. This morning I bid for more stock about $1 below where it closed yesterday, which had been the prior day’s morning resistance (see chart below). My bid got hit before the market … 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
Mike Bellafiore Goes to Singapore as a Phillip iFest Mentor
Well-renowned trader and author, Mike Bellafiore, will be in Singapore for one weekend only to share his trading methods at the Phillip Investment Festival (iFest) 2013. Bellafiore is the author of the “trading classic” One Good Trade, and co-founder of SMB Capital, a proprietary trading firm in New York City. Bellafiore is also the co-founder of SMBU, an educational company that … Read More
Bad Luck Boeing?
On Friday the news hit of a fire on a Boeing 787. Yes, that same plane that BA was forced to take out of service because of lithium battery fires during flight. I don’t know about you but I prefer my flights without fires on board. BA tweaked and fixed the battery issue and the 787s were back in flight. … Read More
The 3PM Bull Basket
I was sitting on our trading desk looking at SPY this Friday. I felt a very strange sense of déjà vu that it was 1998, the year I was relative strength trading semi-conductor stocks, and MSFT, INTL, DELL. This was before the Internet Boom but when these sectors were red hot. At 3PM we would add to our strongest-acting stocks … Read More