Mike Bellafiore was a guest on Benzinga #PreMarket Prep. Below you can listen to his interview and one with the godfather of technical analysis Ralph Acampora. Here is what you will learn from Mike during this interview: 1) The market is not fair. Get over it! 2) One of his favorite trades: Changing Fundamentals Trade 3) How prop traders are … Read More
The Truth Behind Options Commissions
In our SMBU Daily Video, learn more about the options commission ratio for different size trading vehicles. In this video from Seth Freudberg, you will learn: Why trading small vehicles for options income doesn’t work Importance of knowing your commission ratio Trade bigger names to minimize your commission ratio Enjoy the video! * no relevant positions
This Trader is Ready to Trade Live
Bella, I am a huge fan of One Good Trade. Currently, I am wrapping up The Playbook. My friend and mentor put me onto One Good Trade after I had expressed interest several months ago in trading, and I have fallen in love with the profession. My desire is to become an intraday trader, but I want to go about … Read More
Boost Your Trading Day: Top Financial Websites
What financial websites do you use to prepare for trading? @MikeBellafiore I asked our newest training classes in Austin and NYC to share what websites they use and why to prepare for each trading session. Then I aggregated their answers, unedited, into this post. This gives you an excellent guide of websites to help you prepare for each trading session. … Read More
How to Get a Trading Job in College
As a trader who went through the SMB College Training Program previously, and was subsequently hired to trade on the desk in their NYC office, I wanted to write a blog post to answer some questions I’ve received lately. I should also mention that I now head up the College Training Program and it is my sincere hope that I … Read More
Ask anything: can you beat the markets?
Hi Mike, I have heard that there are roughly 50,000 professional traders and 20M want-a-bes. That’s about 1 in 40 and even though those are not good odds I am happy to know that it is possible to do. I have struggled with day-trading. But I have found using options trading longer term chart patterns (weeks and months) that I … Read More
College Traders Training Programs Overview
Last week Leo Selya conducted a Webinar overview on SMB’s summer College Traders training programs. If you’re still not sure what you want to do this coming summer, you might want to watch this video, and you can do that by submitting the form below.
#1 Thing Critical to a Trader ‘s Success
Trading is tough. But what if you could skip the fluff and focus on what really matters? Through the power of internet, I’ve asked 6 successful traders What is the #1 thing that is absolutely critical to a trader ‘s success? Here’s what they said.. (with zero mention of technical indicators or fundamental analysis) Jon Boorman Jonboorman.com – @JBoorman I … Read More