{"id":22947,"date":"2013-01-09T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=22947"},"modified":"2013-02-24T01:57:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T06:57:57","slug":"digging-a-trading-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/digging-a-trading-hole","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Dig a Trading Hole Like These Traders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The below is an excellent reminder for us as traders. \u00a0It comes from a trade recap after trading today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1) When returning from vacation take it slow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1a) An experienced trader ripped it up on a new platform yesterday prompting an email from SMB to get used to the system- take it slow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2) Let the market come to you. \u00a0Trying to hard can cause you harm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">3) Earnings season is coming so don&#8217;t dig a hole before your best opportunity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">4) Tomorrow can be better than today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/vacation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-22948\" title=\"vacation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/vacation.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/vacation.png 724w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/vacation-300x193.png 300w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/vacation-250x161.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike Bellafiore<\/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=1357332711&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=one+good+trade+mike+bellafiore\">One Good Trade<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mikebellafiore\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/follow_me-c.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The below is an excellent reminder for us as traders. \u00a0It comes from a trade recap after trading today. 1) When returning from vacation take it slow. 1a) An experienced trader ripped it up on a new platform yesterday prompting an email from SMB to get used to the system- take it slow. 2) Let the market come to you. &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/digging-a-trading-hole\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":22948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4712],"class_list":["post-22947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mike-bellafiore-bellas-blogs","tag-trading-courses"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Don&#039;t Dig a Trading Hole Like These Traders | 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\/digging-a-trading-hole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Don&#039;t Dig a Trading Hole Like These Traders | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The below is an excellent reminder for us as traders. \u00a0It comes from a trade recap after trading today. 1) When returning from vacation take it slow. 1a) An experienced trader ripped it up on a new platform yesterday prompting an email from SMB to get used to the system- take it slow. 2) Let the market come to you. ... 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