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“Grow or die.”<\/p>\n

Phil Knight- Co-Founder of Nike<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As we start the new year, developing good habits is essential to improving your trading performance this year.\u00a0 One excellent habit to develop is working on your trading game on the weekend.\u00a0 Here we try and help you with that with trading education and ideas to improve for\u00a0 you below.\u00a0 We try and share what is working best on our trading desk in NYC to help you improve.<\/p>\n

What I did better as a trading coach\/mentor in 2018 that may help you improve your trading<\/a><\/p>\n

A sneak peek from our trading desk coaching a trader to make better trades<\/a><\/p>\n

How to catch a market bounce<\/a><\/p>\n

How to trade a Fed announcement<\/a><\/p>\n

Brian Shannon, @alphatrends, visits to teach using a key technical indicator- VWAP<\/a><\/p>\n

Train and trade well.<\/p>\n

Mike Bellafiore is the Co-Founder of SMB Capital, a proprietary trading desk in Midtown, Manhattan, and SMB Training, which provides trader education in equities, options, and futures to traders around the world.<\/p>\n

*no relevant positions<\/p>\n

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“Grow or die.” Phil Knight- Co-Founder of Nike As we start the new year, developing good habits is essential to improving your trading performance this year.\u00a0 One excellent habit to develop is working on your trading game on the weekend.\u00a0 Here we try and help you with that with trading education and ideas to improve for\u00a0 you below.\u00a0 We try … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":47777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5463],"tags":[30,1193,653,1354,1349],"class_list":["post-47869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bella-daily-update","tag-prop-trading","tag-trader-education","tag-trader-training","tag-trading-coach","tag-trading-mentor"],"yoast_head":"\nWeekend Learning: Lessons from Prop Desk | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn valuable trading lessons from our expert prop desk traders. 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