Hello Bella, My name is Jonathan, and I am a day trader and fan of your SMB Blog and Twitter feeds. I have a trading question for you that I am confident you can help me with; you guys have some serious experience. I understand your style of trading sometimes involves holding day-trade-intended setup overnight. I notice myself, several times, … Read More
What newsfeed do you use?
What news feeds do you recommend or follow? Thank you. SMB 1. briefing.com 2. tradethenews.com 3. stocktwits What newsfeed do you use that you would recommend? Mike Bellafiore Author, One Good Trade
When to Play Whack-A-Mole with a Level
A few days ago I was leading a conference call of some remote day traders. One of the questions was: “How do you determine when to try a trade more than once at a level”? I simply answered: “When the risk/reward says it’s okay.” Playing whack-a mole at a level can be frustrating and you have to be careful that you … Read More
SMB Morning Rundown – April 25, 2011
The SMB Morning Rundown highlights the key levels in the Market and the best trading setup that we have identified for the Open.
Stocks and market setups 4/24/11
@AdamG_SMB looks at swing setups in $SPY $ES_F $AG $SSRI $CROX $FOSL $ALJ $CPX $MCK $LBTYA $IBM and $IL
Silver: Trading a Runaway Trend
@AdamG_SMB talks about how to trade a runaway trend in $SLV $SI_F $GC_F $GLD.
Day Traders Switch It Up Like A Pro
Changing your biases in day trading is a hard necessity. Switching sides in a trade is a skill that every day trader must build. There are two distinct levels of this skill, novice and advanced. An up and coming young day trader Jerry, @TheArmoTrader, penned a nice blog post on switching sides: http://jerrykhachoyan.com/. Jerry did a great job switching sides … Read More
Traders Ask: Does Every Options Strategy Work with Every Stock or Index?
One of our readers, Cecelia, sent in the following question after watching our SMB Options Trade of the Week which, covered the bearish butterfly trade that has become popular recently: “Will this trade work for indexes only? Do you recommend this for individual stocks such as AAPL?” We get this question a lot and the answer is important for many … Read More