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Watching Order Flow and Tape Reading To Find Good Trades – TraderInterviews.com

smbcapital01/07/2010Gilbert Mendez's (Gman's) Blogs, Reading the Tape, SMB In The News, Trading Psychology, Trading Theory3 Comments

Gilbert “Gman” Mendez, head trader at SMB Capital, sits down for an interview with Tim Bourquin from TraderInterviews.com.

Still An Important Skill…

sspencer01/05/2010Reading the Tape, Steven Spencer (Steve's) Blogs, Trading Ideas, Trading Theory15 Comments

GOOG announced today that the Nexus 1, their new phone, would be carried on the Verizon network. RIMM started to trade lower. It was already on our radar as a short candidate below 66.50 and 66.20 based on its recent price action. We knew the next major support was not until 65 so it was game on for a short … Read More

Open Shots: BBY

Bella12/15/2009Mike Bellafiore's (Bella's) Blogs, Reading the Tape12 Comments

I traded BBY on the Open.  It does not get any easier than this stock on this open.  It just doesn’t.  I am positive as I write (BBY is at 41.60 now).  How could I not be?  BBY has done nothing but trade lower.  How is that difficult? I am in my office now drinking Coke Zero, writing notes for … Read More

Foreshadowing on the Tape

Bella12/09/2009Mike Bellafiore's (Bella's) Blogs, Reading the Tape4 Comments

MW foreshadowed its strength today on the tape.  I used what I saw on the tape to confidently trade a difficult subset of an accumulation play in MW today.  Let’s discuss. As usual there was the “Bella what are you trading?” peppered in my direction before the open.  My standard response is to subtract how many minutes there are until … Read More

It’s Called Trading!

gman10/05/2009Gilbert Mendez's (Gman's) Blogs, Reading the Tape19 Comments

As part of our training process we ask our remote and in-house traders to tune into our training calls. I was trading AIG in the close and was leading the call. I received a couple of emails from some new trainees who were just confused by my style of trading. Their questions and comments are quite valid and educational so … Read More

Reading the Tape Syllabus

gman09/21/2009Gilbert Mendez's (Gman's) Blogs, Reading the Tape24 Comments

We have gotten some comments and emails from some fellow readers asking what is included in our Reading the Tape program so we prepared this syllabus. SMB Reading the Tape Syllabus DAY 1: The Basics The Basics 1. Two quick written lectures on The Level II and The Prints including a Glossary. 2. One 15-minute audio lecture on the Prints … Read More

SMB Training presents the Reading the Tape Program

gman09/14/2009Gilbert Mendez's (Gman's) Blogs, Reading the Tape7 Comments

SMB Training now proudly presents our Reading the Tape training program for new and developing traders. After two months of arduous work we have finally put together an intensive 2 day program available to you for 30 days on our training website. Reading the Tape allows intraday traders to determine the next move in a stock just by examining the … Read More

From Gman’s Mailbag

gman08/26/2009Gilbert Mendez's (Gman's) Blogs, Reading the Tape17 Comments

A couple of days ago I received this inquiry via email from DH, one of our blog readers. It is a very interesting question so I thought I would share with all of you. Below is DH’s email: “I read the SMB blog and watch the videos every chance I get and I really enjoy them. Thanks for sharing! “I’m a … Read More

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