In our recent survey we asked you for lesson ideas to include in SMBU Premium 2016. Many of your responses included topics related trading size, trading bigger, and questions like “how do I trade bigger?” Here’s the short answer: Identify your trading strengths Trade your best setups more often and with larger size as I wrote in The PlayBook Trade … Read More
A Lesson on Trading Strategies
In our SMBU Daily Video, Mike Bellafiore sits down with Maxim from Hamaha.net to discuss different trading strategies. In this video, you will learn: How identify stocks in play What types of news catalyst will put stocks in play What can make stocks trend intraday and for a swing trade We hope this video helps you improve your trading skills. … Read More
The Problem With Jim Cramer
For those who aren’t familiar with Jim Cramer he is a former hedge fund manager who now has a show on CNBC where he offers investment opinions on hundreds of stocks each month. Cramer’s background is typical for the majority on Wall Street. Ivy League educated he began his career in sales at Goldman Sachs before starting his own fund … Read More
Lesson #2 on Trading Bigger
In our SMBU Daily Video, Mike Bellafiore sits down with Maxim from Hamaha.net to discuss tips on trading bigger. In this video, you will learn: How to identify your strengths as a trader Which trade setups to trade bigger and more often The process to incrementally increase your trading size We hope this video helps you improve your trading skills. – SMBU Team … Read More
Recognizing A Strong Stock
In our SMBU Daily Video, learn how short term traders describe trade setups on an intraday basis. In this video from Steve Spencer, you will learn: The thought process of an intraday trader How Steve looks for potential long/short trade setups How to gauge whether a stock is weak or strong We hope this video helps you improve your trading … Read More
SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar: Steve Papale of Optionvue Systems, International: How Implied Volatility affects the Options Greeks
This week, Steve Papale returns to the Options Tribe to discuss the often misunderstood topic of how the options greeks are affected by options implied volatility.
30 trading habits in 30 days- a book of charts
Welcome back to our new series 30 trading habits in 30 days. This is not my idea. I co-opted it from a trader we trained from scratch to High Performing Trader. This is an excellent habit to build for your daily training as a trader. Build a book of best charts. Every time you make or spot a great setup, … Read More
How Is The Market Reacting To Fear?
As professional market participants part of our job is to make decisions when real world events spill over into the markets that we are trading. In this video I offer some thoughts on the trading environment following the terrorist attacks that took place in Paris. Steven Spencer is the co-founder of SMB Capital and SMB University which provides trading education in stocks, options, … Read More