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
College Traders Speaker Tour
Mike Bellafiore will be speaking at Indiana University to potential up-and-coming traders. There has been a significant interest in trading among college students. SMB just started an in-house internship for college underclassmen to take our training program during a five week summer session. In this new age of trading, students have an edge if they can develop the skills early … Read More
Follow the Trend?
Stock day traders who act in sync — no matter the stock, or whether they are buying or selling — makemore money at the end of the day than their out-of-sync peers, reports an analysis to appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Making its rounds on the trading twitter circuit was an interesting article about how intraday … Read More
Traders Ask: How do I “repair” my deep in the money covered call option?
A reader asked us for help in the following situation: “I have a question and wonder if you will help. I would appreciate very much any advice that you can offer. I have 100 shares of GMCR stock and I have written a covered call– June ‘ 11/ strike 43– against it . The stock gapped up from 41 to … Read More