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
Selling the News in a Strong Stock (video)
Last week in our AM Meeting I outlined a classic short term trading setups often referred to as “Sell The News”. no relevant postions
How to Become a Prop Trader
Mr. Bellafiore, I will keep this as short as possible, as I know you are extremely busy. To ask my question, I must give you some background information about myself. I just finished your book, One Good Trade and I am truly inspired. I graduated from school in May. I did not graduate from an Ivy League school, or with … Read More
SMBU’s Options Tribe Webinar: Len Yates, Optionvue Systems, International: Earnings Plays and Horizontal Skew
Today Len Yates, founder of Optionvue Systems International, returns to the Options Tribe to discuss earnings plays and the new horizontal skew model that was recently built into OptionVue’s Software. 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 … Read More
A Successful Trader Who Made a Late Career Change to Trading Successfully
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 6 of the video series reconstructing my presentation. In this video Mike discusses: 1) An anecdote of a successful trader who made a late career change to trading successfully 2) … Read More
The Bionic Trader
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 5 of the video series reconstructing my presentation. In this video Mike discusses: 1) How to use technology to improve your discretionary trading. 2) The importance of building signals for … Read More
Options Trading for Income with John Locke for November 10, 2014
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The Seven Lessons I’ve Learned
The Seven Lessons I’ve Learned Over the past several years of writing about trading and investing, psychology and self-development, there are a few things that seem to come up over and over. When I started out, I just wanted to share what I found interesting and what I had learned in my career journey. But after some time, as I … Read More