{"id":33391,"date":"2013-11-05T08:37:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=33391"},"modified":"2023-04-27T06:30:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T10:30:58","slug":"how-are-you-improving-each-day-as-a-trader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/how-are-you-improving-each-day-as-a-trader","title":{"rendered":"How Are You Improving Each Day as a Trader?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Open we hold an SMB AM Meeting to discuss the most promising stock patterns of the day.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>During the intraday we share the best stock patterns with our desk with SMB Real Time.<\/p>\n<p>The SMB Radar is a tool we built that scans for our favorite stock patterns.<\/p>\n<p>During the midday we discuss trade patterns with our new traders in our training room.<\/p>\n<p>After the close we ask one of our experienced traders to discuss a profitable trade pattern with the new traders.<\/p>\n<p>After the close each traders completes a detailed trade review.<\/p>\n<p>They also archive a setup that made the most sense to them with a PlayBook Trade.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>What are you doing each day as deliberate practice for your trading game?<\/p>\n<p>Related blog posts:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/end-of-the-month-review\">End of the Month Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/a-conversation-with-yourself\">A Conversation With Yourself<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can be better tomorrow than you are today!<\/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=1382397128&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=one+good+trade\"><em>One Good Trade<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-PlayBook-Inside-Professional-Trader-ebook\/dp\/B00DW7PLLQ\/ref=pd_sim_b_1\"><em>The PlayBook<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mikebellafiore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/follow_me-c.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No relevant positions<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingworkshop.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42831\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/smbwebinarsignup.jpg\" alt=\"tradingworkshop\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Open we hold an SMB AM Meeting to discuss the most promising stock patterns of the day. During the intraday we share the best stock patterns with our desk with SMB Real Time. The SMB Radar is a tool we built that scans for our favorite stock patterns. During the midday we discuss trade patterns with our new &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/how-are-you-improving-each-day-as-a-trader\" 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":[1],"tags":[2444,2449,4703,2448,2451,4706,4707,1718,653,2445,1989,4712,4690,1888,207],"class_list":["post-33391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-comments-2","tag-daytrading","tag-how-to-be-a-day-trader","tag-learn-trading","tag-prop-trade","tag-stock-market-course","tag-stock-trading-education","tag-stock-training","tag-the-playbook","tag-trader-training","tag-trading-careers","tag-trading-course","tag-trading-courses","tag-trading-education","tag-trading-school","tag-trading-stocks","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>How Are You Improving Each Day as a Trader? | 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\/how-are-you-improving-each-day-as-a-trader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Are You Improving Each Day as a Trader? | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Before the Open we hold an SMB AM Meeting to discuss the most promising stock patterns of the day. 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