If you become skilled at stop placements your win rate increases. It’s a skill that we teach traders on our desk but it is something that takes live trading experience to ingrain in a trader’s brain. Newb traders are all over the place in this area. You have some who will risk a few cents, which is awful in an … Read More
The PlayBook Webinar Series: Do You Exit Your Winning Positions Too Early?
Please join Mike Bellafiore, author of the “trading classic” One Good Trade, on Thursday, February 7th at 4:15PM EST for the free Webinar Series, The PlayBook. Tomorrow we will discuss Reasons2Sell, a way for you to build a better exit strategy for your trading. Click here to register for this free Webinar. As always Mike will take questions and encourage … Read More
Using The Tape: $PRGO
Reading the tape is an essential skill for actively day trading. The tape, also known as the time and sales window, shows the trader important information about order flow. It is a stream of data on price and volume, which are two important criteria for intra-day trading decisions . Tape reading takes time to learn and takes practice to understand … Read More
A Trading Conversation
When I began trading in 1996 the lifeblood of the trading floor was the chatter that was exchanged loudly between traders. If a trader was making money in a ticker that information was shared. If a trader found a favorable entry price that information was shared. If a large buyer or seller was identified that information was shared. I made … Read More
Forex: Trader of the Future
Ever wonder what the professional retail trader will look like in the future? I often wonder since I know how important it is to constantly evolve with the game. If you think what works today is going to always work, then you will be left behind. Human behavior does not change, but regulations, volatility and access to information does and … Read More
Are Traders Masochists?
The question open for discussion is this: are traders by and large masochists? Bella and I had a brief chat today regarding the breakout trade in KERX that occurred on January 28th. He asked me to do a Webinar on it as he thought I might offer some more nuance on how to manage the trade where his trade management … Read More
Forex: Are You Really In Tune With Order Flow?
Newer traders usually are faced with similar information early in their learning curve. Much of it revolves around traditional sources of information: charts, fundamentals and news reports. People are conditioned to believe that these sources of information are accurate, reliable and actionable. They base their trading decisions on such information and often wonder why they cannot find consistency in their … Read More
KERX Morning Preparation
Here is a short clip of my discussion of KERX from today’s AM Meeting. It is a small biotech that had positive Phase III data. Towards the end of the clip I talk a bit about how momo funds will push around these lower priced biotechs without regard for percentage moves. Too many times I have seen the DNDNs ARNAs … Read More