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 veteran options traders and experts in the world of options trading share live presentations. Next week, Andrew returns to the Options Tribe to discuss his techniques for … Read More
Your Head is Fine But Your Strategy Stinks
One of our very bright new traders asked to chat about trade psychology. He feared his needed help and wanted to seek my advice on a trading psychology coach. Many of our traders work with psychology coaches. The results are often very positive. I asked the trader to stop by my office for a chat to see if his issues … Read More
The Stock of the Day: $BIOF
In this short video Steve discusses $BIOF, 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. Turns out $BIOF was a huge mover off the $4.00 level Steve had mentioned in this morning’s AM Meeting. You can get more calls like this on a … Read More
Let Me Help Save You 50K
Mike, I am only thru day 4 of your 10-day beginner lesson plan, so forgive me if you have covered this in the 10-day course or The PlayBook, which I will start this weekend, but do you have any advice for newbies on certain investment (trading) vehicles to stay away from until we are weaned so to speak? I am … Read More
SMB AM Meeting Recap: $PRAN
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 $PRAN. Steven Spencer is the co-founder of SMB Capital and SMB University which provides trading education in stocks, options, forex and … Read More
The Capital-Scaling Iron Condor
In this video presentation, Seth Freudberg, SMBU’s Director of Options Training, explains the Capital-Scaling Iron Condor Trade, an out-of-the-box approach to trading iron condors. Seth Freudberg Director, SMB Options Training Program The SMB Options Training Program is a program designed for novice and intermediate level options traders who are seeking an intensive training process to learn how to trade options … Read More
Volatility-Based Sizing
In running back tests, it’s important to understand the impact of volatility and position size. A consistent position size in number of shares or dollar amount can greatly skew historic results. If optimizing, this may lead to curve-fitting the system to periods of high volatility. Here are some examples of the impact of fixed-position sizing vs volatility-based sizing: The first … Read More
Forex Analysis: GBP/USD
Marc Principato, CMT, shares his recent analysis of the GBP/USD. This includes his long and short term perspective, potential levels of interest, and setups he is actively watching for. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/utraderyt Help me write my book: http://www.unconventionaltrader.com Training Info: http://www.bit.ly/smbhome My analysis on TradingView.com: http://bit.ly/tviewprfle Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/marcpmarkets Webinar and Trade Review Archive: http://bit.ly/archpge — Marc Principato, CMT, Risk Disclaimer *No … Read More