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
SMB to Attend Security Traders Association of New York Event
Mike will be speaking about the status of Man and Machine in today’s markets.
No Excuses
I am too tired to rip through charts. This market is too hard. This market is too slow. It’s too nice out to stay for the close. I have to meet some buddies for drinks. I need a faster computer. My platform sucks. My firm doesn’t care. If only someone taught me (fill in the blank). I am not smart … Read More
Find the Least Competitive Stocks?
A sick, pretty well-known trading author walks into a Clearwater Beach breakfast treasure, hacking cough, in need of a shave and tan, with flipflops, shorts and a black penguin polo. Over scrambled egg whites and honey wheat toast he listens to another market veteran share his market wisdom. Almost eerily it is like listening to himself talk, with then some new … Read More
SMB Options Trade of the Week – Heart Friendly Butterfly
Seth Freudberg discusses a “Heart Friendly Butterfly Trade” designed to minimize the effect of market price movements on the the PNL of an options income trade. The option is on the SPX.
Monthly Options Spread Trading is a Twelve-Inning Game
Imagine a major league baseball game, where your favorite team gave up no runs for the first eight innings and then twelve runs in the ninth. Are you happy if the opposing team gave up one run in each inning of that same game? Of course not. The opposing team won 12-9. Yet the opposing team “lost” each of the … Read More