A bottle of red, a bottle of white, Whatever kind of mood you’re in tonight I’ll meet you anytime you want In our Italian Restaurant. Billy Joel A twenty something professional trader enters Zagat’s highest rated Italian restaurant in Soho for a free dinner with a founding partner of his firm. It’s Soho so all this was preceded by four … Read More
A Conversation on a Prop Desk
Trader Casey,”Bella what do you think of my OCR short at 22.50 today?” “What was your plan?” I asked. “I wanted to catch the move from 22.50 to 22.10, the next level.” “What was your stop?” “Bella it was 22.52.” “You probably would have needed a stop of 22.66 for that play to work consistently. So you would have had … Read More
On the Wrong Side of These Health Care Trades
Just got back from a 5AM run. It occurred to me as I evaded a two foot rat, dodged the lightening, and got soaked with my morning run in Central Park that I am on the wrong side of a few health care trades. Picked up a Passion Iced Tea at SBUX after my run. How come Stevia is not … Read More
Overthinking Yourself to Underperformance
Before the open BHI was identified as one of our Top Five trading opportunities. Many of our traders focused on BHI on the open. Here’s why: a) BHI had earnings b) BHI gapped down c) BHI was below an important longer term technical level of 46 d) the buyers at 46 lost in the premarket I am sure some traders … Read More
Hearing, Trusting and Trading
Huge HT to @traderinterviews, the place to listen to profitable, experienced traders share market lessons, for sharing an important video on trust. More specifically on trusting your teammates. Or to us on trusting our trading teammates. Please watch below. Let’s walk through logically why it is so important as traders to develop the skill to gather trading ideas with your … Read More
Six and Half Hours of Fun!
SMB coined the term “intraday fundamentals”. It refers to the study of news patterns that provide us clues to how a stock may move intraday. The best of these patterns are the all-day trend plays, the result of news that’s so important that the stock may trend for the entire day, no matter how the overall market moves. And these … Read More
A ? 4 the Trading Community- Off-Season Improvement Plan?
We received this question from the trading community, which we will pose to our trading community for your comment: My question is about training during the off-season. The month of August is typically known as a slow month. As a result, next month (August 2010) I’m going to be away from my desk, I’m taking a trip down to the … Read More
Was it Really Your Level? Really?
After the Open we meet with our new class and ask them to share a good trade from the open. There was a lot of I bought at this important level and the stock only went up from there. Was it really the level? So the first Newb saunters up to our 65inch flat screen which displays our charts, announces … Read More