Mike Bellafiore, author of One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading, was featured on The Disciplined Investor. Mike talks with host, Andrew Horowitz, about the shift to high frequency trading (HFT) in the trading industry and the ways SMB has adapted to combat the adoption of HFT. Andrew does a weekly podcast, which can be found … Read More
Will the Real Level Please Stand Up? (Know Your Market)
Traders watching the S&P 500 have at least four possibilities for market proxies (and most other major indexes have similar issues), but they’re not always created equal. Some instruments do some things better than others and some are completely inappropriate for certain uses. Let’s start with looking at the pros and cons for each SPY proxy: SPY: An ETF that … Read More
SMB Morning Rundown – September 20, 2010
The SMB Morning Rundown highlights the key levels in the Market and the best trading setup that we have identified for the Open
Finding good setups in a quiet tape
This blog is going to go over one of my recent trades in COG. Yesterday’s morning session was very quiet and I was having difficulty finding stocks that were really moving. I was able to establish during the first 15 minutes or so that I would trade a ‘range strategy” until the market structure changed. (more about this on another … Read More
SMB Morning Rundown – September 17, 2010
The SMB Morning Rundown highlights the key levels in the Market and the best trading setup that we have identified for the Open
SMB Morning Rundown – September 16, 2010
The SMB Morning Rundown highlights the key levels in the Market and the best trading setup that we have identified for the Open
SMB Morning Rundown – September 15, 2010
The SMB Morning Rundown highlights the key levels in the Market and the best trading setup that we have identified for the Open
SMB Morning Rundown – September 14, 2010
The SMB Morning Rundown highlights the key levels in the Market and the best trading setup that we have identified for the Open