You Need To Understand The Role of Luck and Skill In part 6 of my 7-part series on Lessons I’ve Learned, we will look at luck and skill. In order to be successful taking risk in the markets, you must understand the role of luck and skill. From that understanding, there will be several implications for your actions and how … Read More
What Do You Need First to Gain Trading Edge?
I have been listening to a great deal of the Toddler music channel on Pandora so pardon my lyrics. First comes skill Trading Skill! Next comes edge Trading Edge! Then comes trading profits in your head …..And in your bank! Our firm has edge during Russell imbalances. I was discussing this strategy in theory with our college training class, exposing … Read More
Recording: How Do You Obtain and Maximize Your Edge
Yesterday, Mike Bellafiore, author of One Good Trade and The PlayBook, hosted a free webinar on how to find your trading edge. If you missed the webinar, you can catch it here! Enjoy the video! “You can be better tomorrow than you are today!” Mike Bellafiore is the Co-Founder of SMB Capital and SMBU, which provides trading education in stocks, options, … Read More
Webinar: Trading Edge: How Do You Obtain and Maximize Your Edge
This Thursday at 4:15PM ET, Mike Bellafiore, author of One Good Trade and The PlayBook, will be hosting a free webinar on how to find your trading edge. Questions will be answered as they are asked during the presentation in our chat. Please feel free to e-mail Mike with any suggestions for this webinar, [email protected]. “You can be … Read More
Insufficient Trader Training
In our smallest office in our downtown Manhattan digs I was an actor in this conversation. “We make trading too hard,” said the new, gregarious trader. “I am not sure what you mean. Trading is about learning set ups and then mastering the fifteen subsets of each play,” I replied. “See that is where I think I go wrong. I think trading … Read More
Still An Important Skill…
GOOG announced today that the Nexus 1, their new phone, would be carried on the Verizon network. RIMM started to trade lower. It was already on our radar as a short candidate below 66.50 and 66.20 based on its recent price action. We knew the next major support was not until 65 so it was game on for a short … Read More