Hi Bella, I was in the same position for most of last year and early this year, trying to work out what it is I need to be before I could consider myself as a solid trader. Now I find myself in another mental predicament. Which is when do you start believing that as a trader you have found the … Read More
Trade Review: $LINE
You can be better tomorrow than you are today! Mike Bellafiore The PlayBook One Good Trade No relevant positions
Muscle Memory and Patience II–Trading $AAPL
In my previous post on stock “muscle memory” I discussed the three types of MM. I want to revisit the topic and see how we used the same concept while tracking AAPL’s price action for the past few weeks. On June 12th AAPL traded below 435 after not breaching that level for several weeks. After a few days of consolidation … Read More
Are You Revenge Trading?
Hello Mike, I have seen and read many of your posts on the site where you offer traders advice and was wondering if you can offer me some advice. Little bit about me: I started trading 18 months with very little capital and was in a up-one-day/ down-next-day mode on my trading for over a year. Until about four to … Read More
What Does It Feel Like to Be a Pro Trader?
Good morning Mike, Happy Fourth of July to you and the team! Mike, I re-read your first book, One Good Trade and I really tried to focus on your writings and comments about trading psychology, and getting into the mindset of a professional trader. What I would like to know is this: when you get up in the morning on … Read More
Muscle Memory and Patience–Trading $ACAD
I like to say that stocks have “muscle memory”. There are several possible meanings for this expression: 1) A stock will repeat a strong move from a particular inflection point–this applies to both intra-day and daily levels; 2) A stock will move with a particular “cadence” intra-day that can be gamed to the trader’s advantage (or ignored to their detriment); … Read More
The Window Undressing
I’m not sure when I first started reading about “window dressing” in the market. It may have been while reading Jim Cramer in the 90’s where he talked about the things managers would do to keep themselves from being fired. The basic idea is that managers would adjust their portfolios at the end of a fiscal period so it appeared … Read More
The Term “Day Trader” Should Not Exist
I received this note from a pissed short-term trader: You could probably do a blog post on the term “daytrader”…….i.e., how this is negatively perceived by the majority outside of trading…..and even some within trading. Daytraders are portrayed as reckless, void of knowledge, gamblers, and somehow the piranhas of the trading community. Pisses me off. Which why I also do … Read More