Do What You Do!

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This week Roy Davis, Director of SMB Training, and I headed to the 92nd Street Y to listen to Dan Pink discuss his excellent, well-researched, thought-provoking new book on motivation in the workplace, Drive. Dan challenges our present management model by presenting new evidence why a motivational work environment should offer purpose, mastery, and autonomy (see awesome Dan Pink animated … Read More

Coach Wooden Taught Us Trading

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“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” You become a better trader by finding the plays that make sense to you and trading more of them with more size. “It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” It’s the thousand little things done well before the chop that make … Read More

A ?4 the Trading Community- Should I Short?

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Dr. Steenbarger helped me recognize one of the improvements we could make at SMB awhile ago. The partners and Senior Traders must be responsible for a great deal of teaching and mentoring. But if traders are not leveraging the talent of all firm members then that firm is not offering the best learning environment. Traders learn from other traders and … Read More