{"id":37150,"date":"2014-04-09T15:43:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T19:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=37150"},"modified":"2014-04-09T15:43:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T19:43:01","slug":"smb-u-trading-lesson-of-the-day-how-to-gain-trading-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/smb-u-trading-lesson-of-the-day-how-to-gain-trading-confidence","title":{"rendered":"SMB U Trading Lesson of the Day: How to Gain Trading Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Bellafiore, author of the \u201ctrading classic\u201d <em>One Good Trade<\/em> and <em>The PlayBook<\/em>, talks about a SMB Trading Lesson of the Day on how to gain trading confidence. A trader from the SMB trading community reached out to Bella seeking advice for ways he could extinguish his trading fears. As a new trader Nicolas wasn&#8217;t able to actualize his trading ideas into P&amp;L because of his fear of \u00a0losing money.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy this trading lesson!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C0CF94kfxR4\" height=\"348\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLo5LM9g7UwiY9yotqbt2ssKQOANbdILmn\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"smb-youtube-daytrading-trading-prop-trading-education-videos-markets\" src=\"http:\/\/i.smbtraining.com\/banners\/smb-youtube.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can be better tomorrow than you are today!<\/p>\n<p>Mike Bellafiore<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary\/dp\/0470529407\">One Good Trade<br \/>\n<\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-PlayBook-Inside-Professional-Trader\/dp\/0132937646\/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y\">The PlayBook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mikebellafiore\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/follow_me-c.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNo relevant positions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Bellafiore, author of the \u201ctrading classic\u201d One Good Trade and The PlayBook, talks about a SMB Trading Lesson of the Day on how to gain trading confidence. A trader from the SMB trading community reached out to Bella seeking advice for ways he could extinguish his trading fears. As a new trader Nicolas wasn&#8217;t able to actualize his trading &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/smb-u-trading-lesson-of-the-day-how-to-gain-trading-confidence\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,863,456],"tags":[1425,4685],"class_list":["post-37150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-bellafiore-bellas-blogs","category-trade-of-the-week","category-trader_development","tag-position-sizing","tag-trading-lesson","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>SMB U Trading Lesson of the Day: How to Gain Trading Confidence | 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\/smb-u-trading-lesson-of-the-day-how-to-gain-trading-confidence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SMB U Trading Lesson of the Day: How to Gain Trading Confidence | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mike Bellafiore, author of the \u201ctrading classic\u201d One Good Trade and The PlayBook, talks about a SMB Trading Lesson of the Day on how to gain trading confidence. 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