The #3 Trading Frustration of the SMBU Community is a lack of consistency with their trading. In this video below Steve Spencer and I offer some solutions to improve your trading consistency. The search for consistency is a differentiator between pro and developing trader. Learning to develop a detailed trading plan for all of your trades will help. In this … Read More
One Trick Pony: The Sequel
Hello Mike, I hope you are feeling great. I sure am. I’m not sure if you remember, but you did a post on me called “Getting Back in Trading Shape”. I have started trading cash equities along with commodity futures, and I’ve reduced my position size to 25% of what I was trading in futures, i.e. trading relative to a/c … Read More
Trading Frustration #5: How to Combat Selling Too Early
One of the Top Five Frustrations from traders is Selling Too Early. In the video below Steve Spencer and I tackle this issue and offer some ideas for improvement. Also as a solution to this trading frustration, I wrote about developing Reasons2Sell in The PlayBook. Here is one example of a Reason2Sell for your exit strategy. We discussed Reasons2Sell exclusively … Read More
Price Action Techniques For Consistency Part 2 Webinar
My 4 week online class begins on 1/21. Register before space runs out. This webinar provides an idea of the topics I will be covering. In particular: How I project support and resistance levels How I use candlesticks to validate trades And how to question the market for context Any questions, make sure to email me. Once the class begins, registration will … Read More
Six Reasons Traders Fail That Most Traders Don’t Think About
1. Lack of direction. Traders often fail to establish clear goals and create plans to achieve those goals. When traders fail to develop complete business and trading plans before entering the market they are setting themselves up for failure. 2. Impatience. This occurs when traders try to accomplish too much too soon, or expect to get results far faster than is truly possible. … Read More
This Week’s Popular Posts (1/12-1/18)
1. Some Thoughts on 2014: Upside Volatility—Spencer reflects on 2012-2013 market behavior and offers some thoughts on how to pull more money out of market in 2014 2. Solving Your Top Five Trading Frustrations (Video Webinar)–Bella & Spencer sift through the data of 100s of traders in the SMB Community and offer solutions to their Top 5 trading frustrations 3. … Read More
From Here You Can Become a Really Good Trader
During our recent webinar Solving Your Top Five Trading Frustrations I was asked: What should a new trader expect from their P&L? The video below is instructive in answering this question. It was shared by an SMBU Trading Community member. A Chinese bamboo tree takes five years to start growing—and then in five weeks it can grow 90 feet high. This … Read More
Be Proud of What You Have Accomplished & Do Well
I was on the subway after work yesterday and a tweet from @gtotoy caught my attention. It was a friendly reminder that we all need from time to time to not simply use our review process to focus on our flaws and what did not go as planned. It is just as important, no actually more important to recognize that … Read More