{"id":44346,"date":"2016-09-23T11:51:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=44346"},"modified":"2016-09-23T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:51:07","slug":"trade-review-shorting-a-stock-after-earnings-rht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/trade-review-shorting-a-stock-after-earnings-rht","title":{"rendered":"Trade Review&#8211;Shorting A Stock After Earnings $RHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video I walk you through my thought process in developing a plan to short Red Hat following its earnings report. Each morning we develop trading plans for Stocks In Play. For more info sign up for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/trader-90-trader-365\">free trial<\/a> which includes all of our trading tools and live position updates.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wistia_embed\" src=\"\/\/fast.wistia.net\/embed\/iframe\/7pydnzeyrg\" name=\"wistia_embed\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><script src=\"\/\/fast.wistia.net\/assets\/external\/E-v1.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><script src=\"\/\/fast.wistia.com\/assets\/external\/popover-v1.js\" charset=\"ISO-8859-1\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/trader-90-trader-365\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42986 size-full alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/trader901.jpg\" alt=\"trader90\" width=\"600\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/trader901.jpg 600w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/trader901-300x110.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sspencer_smb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/follow_me-c.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steven Spencer is the co-founder of SMB Capital and SMB University which provides trading education in stocks, options, forex and futures. 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