{"id":38200,"date":"2014-07-08T08:23:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T12:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=38200"},"modified":"2023-04-12T16:55:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T20:55:24","slug":"why-dont-you-trade-the-e-minis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/why-dont-you-trade-the-e-minis","title":{"rendered":"Why Don&#8217;t You Trade the E-minis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div>You mention, &#8220;Stocks in Play&#8221; a number of times.<\/div>\n<p>At the risk of sounding a bit green, I suppose this means stocks that have enough volume and movement to make it worthwhile to trade, correct? If this is the case, I&#8217;m wondering why you don&#8217;t trade the S&amp;P emini? Maybe you do, but I haven&#8217;t heard you mention it yet and I&#8217;m on chapter 8. It&#8217;s got plenty of volume and movement so it would seem that it fits your trading criteria. Just curious about your thoughts on the ES. Thank you for your help!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>@MikeBellafiore<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Yes we trade Stocks In Play because they offer the most opportunity for short term trading.\u00a0 A cheat sheet for Stocks In Play are:<\/p>\n<p>a) stocks with unusual news<br \/>\nb) news that is substantially better\/worse than the Street expected<br \/>\nc) stocks that are trading independent to the market<br \/>\nd) stocks that are substantially weaker or stronger than the market<br \/>\ne) stocks that tend to be cleaner and trend<\/p>\n<p>We do write rules to spot such stocks intraday using volume, ATR, RVOL, price movement, gap percentage. Here is a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/super-stocks-in-play\">Super Stocks In Play<\/a>. Steve explains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/why-trade-stocks-in-play\">why we trade Stocks In Play<\/a>. Steve has been arguing for intraday traders to trade <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/why-trade-stocks-in-play\">Stocks In Play <\/a>since we started blogging.We have been asked a similar question in the past about whether it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/traders-ask-stocks-in-play-of-a-basket\">best to trade Stocks In Play<\/a> or a basket of stocks.We will trade SPY and IWM and index ETFs on Market Days.\u00a0 A Market Day is when the entire market may move substantially. Remember we are mostly looking for stocks, Stocks In Play, that will move more than 3 percent intraday and trend cleanly. The overall market does not offer many days like that so we trade Stocks In Play.<\/p>\n<p>What is your opinion on trading futures v Stocks In Play?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;You can be better tomorrow than you are today!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mike Bellafiore is the Co-Founder of SMB Capital and SMBU, which provides trading education in stocks, and options. Bella is the author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary-ebook\/dp\/B003VIWRJA\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1396299609&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=The+PlayBook+one+good+trade\">One Good Trade<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Playbook-Inside-Think-Professional-Trader\/dp\/0132937646\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1358899059&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=The+PlayBook+mike+bellafiore\">The PlayBook<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 He invites your questions at mbellafiore@smbcap.com.<\/p>\n<p>No relevant positions<\/p>\n<p><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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You mention, &#8220;Stocks in Play&#8221; a number of times. At the risk of sounding a bit green, I suppose this means stocks that have enough volume and movement to make it worthwhile to trade, correct? If this is the case, I&#8217;m wondering why you don&#8217;t trade the S&amp;P emini? Maybe you do, but I haven&#8217;t heard you mention it yet &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/why-dont-you-trade-the-e-minis\" 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":[3744],"tags":[4033,55],"class_list":["post-38200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-bella","tag-eminis","tag-trade","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>Why Don&#039;t You Trade the E-minis? | 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\/why-dont-you-trade-the-e-minis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Don&#039;t You Trade the E-minis? | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You mention, &#8220;Stocks in Play&#8221; a number of times. 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