{"id":42834,"date":"2015-12-10T18:21:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T23:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=42834"},"modified":"2023-04-06T09:54:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T13:54:38","slug":"careful-aggressive-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/careful-aggressive-traders","title":{"rendered":"Careful aggressive traders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love aggressive traders.\u00a0 Firms love aggressive traders.<\/p>\n<p>There is trader lore and real-history of firms testing for that fabulously aggressive trader trait (if it exists).<\/p>\n<p>Then there is these times.\u00a0 Markets when the aggressive trader takes his beating from Mother Market for being overly aggressive.<\/p>\n<p>The holidays are coming.\u00a0 It\u2019s not earnings season.\u00a0 Traders are sitting around, re-clicking ESPN for the latest trade at the baseball winter meetings, until the next Fed meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Overly aggressive long in KMI&#8230;.rip.<\/p>\n<p>Overly aggressive short in KMI&#8230;.rip.<\/p>\n<p>Overly aggressive in XLE long&#8230;.rip.<\/p>\n<p>Overly aggressive short in SPY&#8230;.rip.<\/p>\n<p>Leaning the wrong way in $LULU&#8230;.rip.<\/p>\n<p>What I see from my seat at a prop trading firm is presently this is not the time to be aggressive.\u00a0 Aggressive traders are turning flat days into negative 20k days of dispirit.<\/p>\n<p>Careful aggressive traders.\u00a0 Your time will come.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not now.\u00a0 What you do not lose in this current market regime you will keep in your market.<\/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>I love aggressive traders.\u00a0 Firms love aggressive traders. There is trader lore and real-history of firms testing for that fabulously aggressive trader trait (if it exists). Then there is these times.\u00a0 Markets when the aggressive trader takes his beating from Mother Market for being overly aggressive. The holidays are coming.\u00a0 It\u2019s not earnings season.\u00a0 Traders are sitting around, re-clicking ESPN &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/careful-aggressive-traders\" 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":[4803,1144,276],"class_list":["post-42834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-comments-2","tag-aggressive","tag-careful","tag-traders","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>Careful aggressive 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\/careful-aggressive-traders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Careful aggressive traders | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I love aggressive traders.\u00a0 Firms love aggressive traders. 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