1984: my first computer was an Apple IIC given to me by my parents in 8th grade (i was a very fortunate kid) ($1300). i was so excited when i got a 300baud modem having visions of hacking into banks and government installations after having watched War Games with Mathew Broderick 1984: telling my grandfather he should buy Apple stock. … Read More
SMB Radar Play of the Day – $GPN
This is another play I want to remember. It’s basically a more advanced view of the Spencer Special. In this case it was selling short GPN after a big gap up. We do not simply fade stocks because they are “over bought”. There were a lot of checks in favor of the short (and not at the top by any … Read More
The Inner Voice of Trading (an excerpt)
Steve and I have both read and are in the excellent new book from Michael Martin, The Inner Voice of Trading. Below is an excerpt that FT Press was gracious enough to share with our readers. We have been tweeting about this book of late. The Inner Voice of Trading has started with terrific reviews here. Last week it cracked … Read More
Free Webinar 10/6: Your PlayBook- Setups that you can make your own
Join us this Thursday for a free webinar with Mike Bellafiore, author of the “trading classic” One Good Trade at 4:15 PM EST. Mike will discuss some trading set ups that you can make your own. More importantly he will focus on the proper thought process for such trading plays. Questions from attendees will be answered at the end of … Read More
Traders Ask: How Does Your Posture Affect Your Trading?
Hi. My question concerns body posture when sitting at a screen for hours a day. I’ve learned I need to be very aware when trading of what’s going on in my brain, what I’m seeing and how I feel and think about it, and what baggage from life might be influencing my mood. Often though I also realise that my … Read More
New Plays Emerge – SMB Radar Play of the Day $FMCN
Lately we have been posting some very simple Radar setups that can really step up your trading game. Simple, trend following plays that can be very high probability, good risk / reward plays. Today $OCR made a similar set up to the Spencer Special, however didn’t have as many checks as we would like to see. Consolidation wasn’t very clean, the … Read More
Free Options Webinar: SMB’s Options Tribe: Today at 5pm EDT: Short Term Calendar Spreads
Today at 5:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time SMB’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members worldwide. Each week the community will meet online for the primary purpose of watching live presentations made by outstanding veteran options traders and experts in the world of options trading. This … Read More
Making Decisions How to Enter on MOS
A guest post from an SMB trainee, TO: Bella has the entire floor working on their Playbooks on a daily basis, in order to take internalize our best plays. Here is one of my plays on MOS last week. 1. Big Picture: The SPY’s were in an intraday downtrend in the 116’s and next support was 115. 2. Intraday Fundamentals: … Read More