During our SMB Midday Recap Bella taught: 1) A trading execution principle for stocks that break out. 2) How to make a second-day VWAP support play in $CAT by doing the exact opposite of what he did. 3) An example of the best stocks to trade for intraday traders—those with independent order flow. $FIO was used as an example of a … Read More
LS Trades Reviews The PlayBook
Liquid Snake, aka Sebastien Salois, is a former professional basketball player and financial security advisor who runs a Web site called LS Trades. Recently, he wrote a terrific review of The PlayBook, and we’ve pasted it here in full. We thought you might enjoy it. —- READ THIS BOOK. In anything where there’s a huge demand and interest for knowledge, … Read More
Why We Started SMB
Mike, I’ve just started your book One Good Trade, and I love it. My question is why start a prop firm if you and Steve are the best traders and it is all your money? Can’t you just scale up your trades? I trade my own money and was thinking about starting a prop firm, but then I think: 1. … Read More
Use Your Emotions to Make Better Trading Decisions: SMB Midday Meeting with Denise Shull (October 21, 2013)
Denise Shull, author of Market Mind Games, was our guest speaker today during our Midday Meeting at SMB. Denise discussed: 1) How traders should learn to use emotions to make better trading decisions 2) Why most trader psychology advice gets it wrong by teaching you not to feel emotions 3) The reason why some traders have a need to be … Read More
Trading After the Debt Ceiling is Raised (Video)
Yesterday during our After-Hours Review our desk discussed attacking the markets after the debt ceiling is raised. Our preparation started yesterday. Notice that we run through different strategies: 1) Buy buy buy instantly 2) Wait for the market to settle and start a trend 3) Short the news 4) Fade a quick up move As a trading partner it … Read More
The Single Most Valuable 15 Minutes of Trading Education (Video)
Mike, I had to send this email out right away after you posted your session on how you lost on $FB. For me, this was the single most valuable 15 minutes that I have spent on trading education. Why? For me, getting bigger, pressing, and holding are the biggest obstacles for me to get to the next level. As background, … Read More
Contemplating Insanity Into My Trading
I am one of the subscribers to the new SMB DNA program. I missed your mentoring session yesterday, but I just watched the recording and was wondering if you could answer one question for me. I just also wanted to say that I read both of your books not too long ago and thought they were the best books on … Read More
Enhancing Performance With Bias Awareness
******One blogger/trader/educator who does a wonderful job of sharing research on elite performance and how it relates to trading is David Blair, The Crosshairs Trader. SMBU thought a Sunday Links post from him would be of interest to the SMB Trading Community. Below is his first for you. We hope you enjoy!******* Editor’s note A cognitive bias is ever present … Read More