Trading is similar to playing sports at an elite level, they‘re both mentally demanding. In fact it is quite common in sports for a highly gifted athlete with a compromised mindset to lose miserably against a much less talented competitor utilizing the proper mindset. Trading is the same way. You can know everything about charting, indicators and options. You can … Read More
Lesson 2: Trading Is Peak Performance
Continuing the series Seven Lessons I’ve Learned, I wanted to talk about the right lens or framework for understanding trading. Is it “combat”, is it a “sport”, or is it “a treasure hunt”? All of these are valid metaphors for describing some aspect, but I don’t feel that it captures the essence of the activity. Instead, peak performance is the … Read More
The Great Automated Failed Discretionary Trader (video)
The other week I presented at #Stocktoberfest the @Stocktwits event masterminded by @howardlindzon. My presentation was titled: 8 Ideas from the Prop Desk to Improve Your Trading. Below is part 7 of the video series reconstructing my presentation. In this video Mike discusses: 1) An anecdote about a great automated trader formerly a failed discretionary trader 2) Adding automated trading … Read More
Hopeville: Where traders go to die
There are times when I am required to give a mentoring student some tough love, because it’s important for me to convey, immediately, to a trainee when I spot a trading quality that is so destructive that he has virtually no chance of surviving as a trader unless he rids himself of that trait. I have a mentoring student named … Read More
SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar: Frank Fahey, Optionvue Systems, International: The anatomy of a broken wing butterfly
Today, Frank Fahey returns to the Options Tribe to break down the broken wing butterfly and examine its margin, skew and directional considerations. SMBU’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members worldwide. Each Tuesday, SMBU hosts an options webinar — the Options Tribe — during which … Read More
Options Trading for Income with John Locke for November 17, 2014
No relevant positions Risk disclaimer
Avoiding Losers (And Winners)
*****David Blair, The Crosshairs Trader, is a blogger/trader/educator who does a wonderful job of sharing research on elite performance and how it relates to trading. Below is his latest post for the SMB trading community.***** — Editor’s Note Key Point: We will do anything to avoid a loss even to the point of ignoring that we have one, while claiming … Read More
Lesson 1: Trading is Decision Making
Lesson #1 : Good trading is about good decision-making Last week, I wrote up seven lessons that I’ve learned about investing and trading over the past few years. That was an overview of some of the more interesting and surprising things that I’d come across in my journey in the markets. As a continuation of this series, I’m going to … Read More