“Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.” Makes me wonder if someone from Pink Floyd tried being a remote trader. Trading from home alone is both … Read More
4/6/11 Stock Scans (with some questions answered)
Here are today’s scans And two questions: >I lost my notes from the webinar. Is it archived? Yes. Scroll down a few posts back and you will see that Roy posted the video. For other people looking at these scans who did not see the video, you might want to watch it. These probably make more sense in context of … Read More
Can I Trade Options While Holding Down a Busy Full-Time Job? How About While I’m Asleep?
While there are common themes to every kind of trading discipline, there are of courses differences as well. Options spread trading, for example is a very different world in many respects from day trading. At SMB, our intraday equity traders tend to focus on the opening hour and the closing hour of trading, with sometimes very high speed activity and decision-making … Read More
Finding an edge in random markets
Adam asks if traders can make money using trailing stops in random walk markets.
Why I Love KISS…Not The Rock Band!
So you’re a day trader. Ok, you have the computer, a few monitors, and a brokerage account with a few bucks that is going to make you many more bucks. Throw in a charting program, a few books worth of knowledge and the passion for trading and your set. Now what? Good question! As a new or even a struggling … Read More
Mastering Chess Trading: Insights from Pete in Indonesia
I received an interesting email yesterday from a nice gentleman from Indonesia (SMB gets lots of inquiries from all over the world) who has expressed an interest in SMB’s options training course that we will be launching in May. Pete has studied options trading through literature and has experienced some early success. What I found so interesting about Pete’s email, was … Read More
3/29/11 Stock scans
Here are the scans as promised in last week’s webinar.
What I love about options trading
I’m sitting here this morning in the offices of SMB capital in downtown Manhattan, making some notes in anticipation of a blitz I”ll be doing this week, recording the majority of the videotapes that will form the core of our options training program. It brought me back to my first days as an options trader and the intense excitement … Read More