{"id":14705,"date":"2011-09-30T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=14705"},"modified":"2011-09-30T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T17:34:07","slug":"an-idea-to-help-improve-your-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/an-idea-to-help-improve-your-trading","title":{"rendered":"An idea to help improve your trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had an SMB Tradecast reviewing a play for the SMB PlayBook.\u00a0 A trainee records their best trade of the day in our SMB PlayBook template form and then sends me and the desk the trade.\u00a0 I choose the plays that I want to review for future SMB Tradecasts.\u00a0 An idea was shared that you might was to co-opt.<\/p>\n<p>A trainee placed note next to his Level II and on his trading platform about the stock he was trading.\u00a0 I am paraphrasing here but examples were something like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LVS is very weak<\/p>\n<p>Momentum is not working<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a wonderful idea!<\/p>\n<p>Doing so will make you less likely to take a position against your self interest.\u00a0 Doing so helps you internalize the trade.\u00a0 Doing so helps you remain in a calmer state while trading as you are recording more what you are observing from the market.\u00a0 Doing so helps you make better trading decisions.<\/p>\n<p>I was very impressed with this idea.\u00a0 Perhaps you can use this to help improve your trading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/taking-notes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14707\" title=\"taking notes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/taking-notes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/taking-notes.png 770w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/taking-notes-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bella<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary\/dp\/0470529407\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317323072&amp;sr=1-1\">One Good Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smbcapital\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/follow_me-c.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had an SMB Tradecast reviewing a play for the SMB PlayBook.\u00a0 A trainee records their best trade of the day in our SMB PlayBook template form and then sends me and the desk the trade.\u00a0 I choose the plays that I want to review for future SMB Tradecasts.\u00a0 An idea was shared that you might was to co-opt. &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/an-idea-to-help-improve-your-trading\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30,1828,1193,653,1354,1349],"class_list":["post-14705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-bellafiore-bellas-blogs","tag-prop-trading","tag-smbu","tag-trader-education","tag-trader-training","tag-trading-coach","tag-trading-mentor","no-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An idea to help improve your trading | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/an-idea-to-help-improve-your-trading\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An idea to help improve your trading | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today we had an SMB Tradecast reviewing a play for the SMB PlayBook.\u00a0 A trainee records their best trade of the day in our SMB PlayBook template form and then sends me and the desk the trade.\u00a0 I choose the plays that I want to review for future SMB Tradecasts.\u00a0 An idea was shared that you might was to co-opt. ... 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