{"id":39172,"date":"2014-10-20T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=39172"},"modified":"2021-05-07T09:37:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T13:37:01","slug":"how-to-win-during-earnings-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/how-to-win-during-earnings-season","title":{"rendered":"How to Win During Earnings Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every financial quarter as traders we have our Super Bowl- Earnings Season.\u00a0 These are exciting trading times!<\/p>\n<p>New traders chirp, &#8220;This is going to be the month I break out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Developing traders announce,&#8221;I am not going to be a wuss during this earnings season and quintuple my profits!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Experienced traders unsatisfied with their results during earnings season declare, &#8220;I will crush it this earnings season!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Retail traders shout, &#8220;I am going to make so much I can quit my job!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am all for thinking positively, but those thoughts alone will not produce improved performance.<\/p>\n<p>What will?\u00a0 What is the only thing that will?\u00a0 Improving your skills and trading edge.\u00a0 Specifically improving your skills and trading edge in these aspects of your trading:<\/p>\n<p>1) Stock Selection<\/p>\n<p>2) PlayBook of trades with edge<\/p>\n<p>3) Process<\/p>\n<p>4) Preparation<\/p>\n<p>Better performance requires trading the best stocks.\u00a0 In <em>One Good Trade<\/em>, I wrote, &#8220;You are only as good as the stocks you trade!&#8221;\u00a0 On our desk that means trading the Stocks In Play.\u00a0 These offer the most opportunity during earnings season.\u00a0 You must be in the Right Stocks!<\/p>\n<p>Better performance also entails trading Stocks In Play with your PlayBook of trades with edge. And an edge that you can measure from your trading results.\u00a0 Setups that offer the best risk\/reward.\u00a0 Setups like the Trend Trend Changing Fundamentals Trade, which I drill into our newbs.\u00a0 Trades that offer the greatest margin or error, best risk\/reward, least amount of trade decisions, and tend cleanly in one direction.\u00a0 You must be in the Right Setups!<\/p>\n<p>Better performance also requires an elite trading process.\u00a0 If you know what stocks to trade and how to trade them but are not prepared for them you will underperform.\u00a0 Are you preparing properly so you find the best stocks to trade?\u00a0 Are you reviewing your work so you are biggest in your A+ trades?\u00a0 Do you have a system to determine your favorite trades?\u00a0 Do you have a trading strategy that helps you determine what trades deserve bigger size?\u00a0 You must have the Right Trading Process!<\/p>\n<p>And all of this must be done before Earnings Season. Stock selection skill, PlayBook of trades with edge, trading process skill must be developed before Earnings Season begins to improve your trading results.<\/p>\n<p>At SMB we say Right Stocks AND Right Setups AND Right Trading Process!\u00a0 Be prepared to maximize the opportunities during our Super Bowl of trading- Earnings Season.<\/p>\n<p>You win the game before its played with skill and edge!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/in-house-earnings-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39180 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tradeearnings.png\" alt=\"tradeearnings\" width=\"600\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tradeearnings.png 600w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tradeearnings-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cYou can be better tomorrow than you are today!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike Bellafiore is the Co-Founder of SMB Capital and SMBU, which provides trading education in stocks, options, forex and futures. 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