{"id":43474,"date":"2016-04-15T13:33:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T17:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=43474"},"modified":"2021-05-06T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:31:00","slug":"lessons-learned-in-chicago-from-experienced-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/lessons-learned-in-chicago-from-experienced-traders","title":{"rendered":"Lessons learned in Chicago from experienced traders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script charset=\"ISO-8859-1\" src=\"\/\/fast.wistia.com\/assets\/external\/E-v1.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"wistia_embed wistia_async_q2emym0srw\" style=\"height: 338px; width: 600px;\"><\/div>\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\/ssNZDsoET35mJu\" 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=\"Lessons Learned in Chicago From Experienced Traders\" href=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/smbcapital\/lessons-learned-in-chicago-from-experienced-traders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lessons Learned in Chicago From Experienced Traders<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/smbcapital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smbcapital<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This week I visited Chicago and with experienced traders covering different products and in different structures.\u00a0 I visited with traders at hedge funds, prop firms, broker dealers, trading education centers, independent traders, exchanges, and institutions.\u00a0 These seasoned veterans expressed their ideas in options, futures, stocks, automated trading, and international markets.\u00a0 There was a lot to learn.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some lessons from my visit:<\/p>\n<p>1) The market is not set up to trade as you would like.<\/p>\n<p>2) Traders can go from \u201cI quit\u201d to award-winning trader.<\/p>\n<p>3) Often the first question you must ask to improve is: What do I want from the market?<\/p>\n<p>4) The traders who make it <b>do more<\/b> than the firm asks of them.<\/p>\n<p>5) Empower someone to stop you out for the day at a loss where nothing good rarely happens past.<\/p>\n<p>6) There are traders making big money in many different ways.\u00a0 Some of these numbers are eye-opening.<\/p>\n<p>7) If you get the opportunity to trade pro, make the most of the opportunity.<br \/>\n*no relevant positions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons Learned in Chicago From Experienced Traders from smbcapital &nbsp; This week I visited Chicago and with experienced traders covering different products and in different structures.\u00a0 I visited with traders at hedge funds, prop firms, broker dealers, trading education centers, independent traders, exchanges, and institutions.\u00a0 These seasoned veterans expressed their ideas in options, futures, stocks, automated trading, and international markets.\u00a0 &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/lessons-learned-in-chicago-from-experienced-traders\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3155,4940,448,848,276],"class_list":["post-43474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-comments-2","tag-chicago","tag-experienced","tag-learned","tag-lessons","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>Lessons learned in Chicago from experienced 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\/lessons-learned-in-chicago-from-experienced-traders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lessons learned in Chicago from experienced traders | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lessons Learned in Chicago From Experienced Traders from smbcapital &nbsp; This week I visited Chicago and with experienced traders covering different products and in different structures.\u00a0 I visited with traders at hedge funds, prop firms, broker dealers, trading education centers, independent traders, exchanges, and institutions.\u00a0 These seasoned veterans expressed their ideas in options, futures, stocks, automated trading, and international markets.\u00a0 ... 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