Mike Bellafiore, author and co-founder of SMB Capital and SMBU.com highlights a Momentum Trade opportunity in the IPO GoPro (stock symbol $GPRO) with our college training class. Some Highlights: Mike explains the buy signal for this momentum trade. Technical levels in IPOs just one trading day old are significant. Understand this is a momentum trade which has little to do … Read More
Multiple Strategies – Automated Opportunities
Earlier this week we looked at SUNE which was setting up for a long. Now we’ve got the hourly rejoining the Daily/Weekly and it’s time to trail the position for as long as it wants to run. WMT and SPWR were also trades that showed up on the TEA Radar that have been trading nicely – often defying the broad … Read More
TEA Trend Indicator
The TEA has fired off a big warning on SPY – The first since May 8th. The current bullish move was confirmed about a month ago and held nicely with only moderate warnings on down days. In the context of slowing momentum and an extended move; yesterday’s bearish move is a more relevant warning. Applications I’ll be quick to … Read More
SMB AM Meeting Recap: $WEC
In this short video, Steve discusses a stock from this morning’s AM Meeting. Every morning he reviews the market and analyzes the stocks that are in play and likely to have second-day moves. Steve discusses the potential trading setups in $WEC. Steven Spencer is the co-founder of SMB Capital and SMB University which provides trading education in stocks, options, forex and … Read More
Take Your Back Test Into the Future
So you’ve developed or learned about a great strategy. You back tested it, tweaked the rules, and re-tested. Maybe the results are looking great – now what? All the information that you have is history. Is it reliable and repeatable in the real world? Here are few things that I do before running a strategy live. 1) Make sure the strategy works in … Read More
Stocks Do What They Want To $COH
Mike Bellafiore, author of the “trading classic” One Good Trade and The PlayBook, analyzes a trade in $COH for the SMB College Student Training Program on causal Friday at the firm. This 2nd Day Play in $COH had some traders on edge but the real trade was letting $COH do what it wanted to do below the 34.85 level that developed. As always, we … Read More
Directional Options Strategies
Seth Freudberg, Director of SMB Options Training, lectured the SMB College Training class on the concept of using options as an alternative to equities. In this video he demonstrates how options can be used to capitalize on directional moves in stocks. Enjoy the video! Risk Disclaimer no relevant positions
Properly Setting Your Trading Goals to Lower Stress
As traders we often set some sort of performance “goals”. We might say something like “My goal is to make $5000 per month trading”. There are problems with that goal, the biggest problem being that we don’t actually have control over how much money we make in any given trade. We might have a lot of influence on how much … Read More