Marc Cuban wrote a blog post a few days ago offering some suggestions for restructuring US equity markets. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Cuban he is a successful internet entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. The premise of Cuban’s blog was that over the years “Wall Street” has lost its way and has devolved into a … Read More
High Beta, High Probability
It is my belief that for a short term trader to reach the upper echelon of their profession they have to have an extensive playbook. As we train and watch new traders develop we have found that those who become profitable master one or two of their best setups. The few that go on to further success become very good … Read More
What’s Your Number?
If you hang around long enough in the investing or banking communities of New York or London, you’ll soon hear the infamous question: “What’s your number?”. The first time, you answer by rattling off your phone number; then you realize that the question has nothing to do with speaking on the phone. “Your number” is usually the number at which … Read More
Where and How to Buy KBH
So KBH outperformed the market yesterday. There were many tweets on @stocktwits asking where and how to buy. This chart below gives you an entry to consider. It was produced by an SMB Trader and sent to his desk with the simple message: ” add this picture to your playbook. memorize this pattern. KBH @ 14.28.” We call this a … Read More
What is Your Motivation to Be a Trader?
There are different styles of trading for different people. One of the keys to have success in trading is to find out what it signifies for you on a personal level and what you want to obtain of the future and economic benefits. To have a satisfactory and well rounded career, it is necessary to have an incentive that goes … Read More
Do not miss 2nd Day Plays
During a midday Tradecast I said, “You do not want to miss 2nd Day Plays.” These are the easiest set ups for new traders. Essentially a 2nd Day Trade uses the most important prices from Day 1 of when a stock was In Play. So if a stock reported, what were the most important prices from that Day 1? The … Read More
Spencer Trade Review – $CLF 09.17.12
Steve discusses CLF’s recent trading activity and a few trades that he made in it on September 17th. Steve Spencer *no relevant positions
A Waste of Screen time
Screen time helps a trader build intuition and experience. That voice in your head that knows when to buy or sell without sometimes being able to verbalize why is intuition. But screen time alone is not sufficient. You need the right kind of screen time. Today after the close we held an SMB Tradecast. This is where a trader presents … Read More