{"id":17235,"date":"2012-02-15T09:06:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=17235"},"modified":"2023-04-25T17:55:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:55:22","slug":"the-money-trade-lnkd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-money-trade-lnkd","title":{"rendered":"The Money Trade&#8212;LNKD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall of 2010 I wrote a post called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-money-trade\">The Money Trade<\/a>&#8220;. It outlined the mindset of momo hedge funds and how when they all decide to pile into growth stocks such as CMG, FOSL, CRM, LULU etc. you can quickly identify their fingerprints via after hours and pre-market price action.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago LNKD reported earnings and the AH\/PM price action was indicative of our momo buddies. Here is the video of our pre-market discussion of how LNKD might trade for the day. Followed by a chart of how it traded later that day. SMB Fundamental #1 is Proper Preparation!<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2wngmdqISKM?wmode=transparent\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lnkd-earnings-momentum.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17246\" title=\"lnkd earnings momentum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lnkd-earnings-momentum.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lnkd-earnings-momentum.png 881w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lnkd-earnings-momentum-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sspencer_smb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/follow_me-c.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steven Spencer is the co-founder of SMB Capital and SMB Training and has traded professionally for over 15 years. His email is sspencer@smbcap.com.<\/p>\n<p>No relevant positions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall of 2010 I wrote a post called &#8220;The Money Trade&#8220;. It outlined the mindset of momo hedge funds and how when they all decide to pile into growth stocks such as CMG, FOSL, CRM, LULU etc. you can quickly identify their fingerprints via after hours and pre-market price action. A few days ago LNKD reported earnings and &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-money-trade-lnkd\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":17246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8,456,15],"tags":[1440],"class_list":["post-17235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-comments-2","category-steven_spencer_steves_blogs","category-trader_development","category-trading_theory","tag-ln"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Money Trade---LNKD | 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\/the-money-trade-lnkd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Money Trade---LNKD | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the fall of 2010 I wrote a post called &#8220;The Money Trade&#8220;. 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