Expiration week and the SPXpm

Greg LoehrGeneral Comments1 Comment

This post is another in a series that we will be publishing over the next month , tracking the hypothetical performance of broken wing butterfly trades selected by Greg Loehr of Optionsbuzz.com. For those who haven’t heard of or traded the SPXpm, take a look at it.  It’s an electronically traded SPX product that trades through expiration Friday afternoon and … Read More

How to Bounce Back From Failure in Trading

bruce.bowerBruce Bower, General Comments, Trader Development, Trading Lesson, Trading Psychology6 Comments

This is one blog post that I hope you never have to read. Why? Because it’s all about failure. The word “failure” has tons of connotations. Shame. Guilt. Disappointment. Anger. These are things that we try to avoid at all costs. If the world were perfect, you would never run into failure in your trading career. I hope that you … Read More

Four Quick Ways To Get Better At Trading

bruce.bowerBruce Bower, General Comments, Trader Development, Trading Lesson6 Comments

Four Quick Ways To Get Better At Trading Usually, the “quick fix” implies fixing something, but only temporarily and in a fashion that won’t help long-term.  Luckily for us traders, there are several quick things that we can do that can readily improve our trading. They are quick lessons in that they don’t take much time to grasp, but their … Read More

Forex Radar price expectation

Alex SalazarGeneral Comments1 Comment

Take a peak of our forex radar price expectation video. USD/CAD currency pair has suffered by making the price very weak. Due to these conditions, it had formed break downs at previous lows making “believe” of more downtrends in the currency. But the unexpected is that a rebound comes right after the “fake” break down. SMB forex has recognized these … Read More

Follow Up to the AAPL Credit Spread

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This post is another in a series that we will be publishing over the next month , tracking the hypothetical performance of broken wing butterfly trades selected by Greg Loehr of Optionsbuzz.com. Last week I introduced the idea of using a broken wing butterfly for AAPL, entered into for a 50-cent, as an alternative strategy to a regular put credit … Read More

What behavior should a prop firm reward?

BellaGeneral Comments7 Comments

After the close one day this week I encouraged our traders to CALL OUT awesome potential trading opportunities.  Shark called out SXCI into one close and the firm and individual traders caught a very profitable trade.  I got our Floor Manager into ILMN for an opening drive play at the start of the week.  He sent me an email of … Read More

Chill!

BellaGeneral Comments7 Comments

Here are two comments made from two SMB traders in their daily review sent to me after the close.  Both harm their results by trying too hard.  Do you do this? I am slowly becoming less and less content with just making $$$$ (note: SMB cannot talk our PnL because of compliance reasons) and calling it a decent day. I … Read More

A Different Look at AAPL Credit Spreads

Greg LoehrGeneral Comments1 Comment

This post is another in a series that we will be publishing over the next month , tracking the hypothetical performance of broken wing butterfly trades selected by Greg Loehr of Optionsbuzz.com. A week doesn’t go by when I’m not asked a question about selling a put spread (credit spread) on a particular stock, especially before earnings when the implied … Read More