{"id":43208,"date":"2016-02-19T13:40:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T18:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=43208"},"modified":"2023-05-23T16:37:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T20:37:16","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-a-professional-trader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-professional-trader","title":{"rendered":"A day in the life of a professional trader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday our education division, SMBU, held a webinar: <i>A day in the life of a trader<\/i>.\u00a0 The purpose was to share best practices for traders to turn into habit so they trade better.<\/p>\n<p>If traders do all the things necessary to improve, then they can improve.\u00a0 As I give this presentation, I have an internal conversation with myself.<\/p>\n<p><i> I really hope those listening understand how important it is to be doing all of these things daily. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>So many underperforming traders think trading success is just finding trades with edge.\u00a0 They just want to push the buttons when those trades visit.\u00a0 That is part of it.\u00a0 In fact, that is a large part of this game.\u00a0 But trading edge without daily habits that help you become your best trader is insufficient.\u00a0 You need both.<\/p>\n<p>Without the other the other is nothing.\u00a0 You cannot have a beautiful tree in your home without watering it daily.\u00a0 You cannot have a beautiful tree in your home without a tree to water.<\/p>\n<p>The slide show below shares how a professional trader spends his day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/g9wEGreImYMB3S\" width=\"595\" height=\"485\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><strong> <a title=\"A day in the life of a trader\" href=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/smbcapital\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-trader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A day in the life of a trader<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/smbcapital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smbcapital<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>Related Posts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UbdzWfEzQ0I\">A day on the Street<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/one-day-in-the-life-of-a-pro-trader\">One day in the life of a pro trader<\/a><\/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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I really &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-professional-trader\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":43210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[425,2459,144],"class_list":["post-43208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-comments-2","tag-day","tag-life","tag-trader"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A day in the life of a professional 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\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-professional-trader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A day in the life of a professional trader | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yesterday our education division, SMBU, held a webinar: A day in the life of a trader.\u00a0 The purpose was to share best practices for traders to turn into habit so they trade better. 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