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What professional traders are doing that you are not<\/a><\/p>\n

Many underperforming traders reach out to me to share their stories.\u00a0 Also from my seat, I get to see how and why traders are succeeding at our firm and outside with the select elite traders I coach.\u00a0 Professional traders are different.\u00a0 They are different in how they put a trade together.\u00a0 I give an example, using ROKU, in this video above.<\/p>\n

How come traders with edge are still losing money?<\/a><\/p>\n

Steve Spencer, answers a question on risk management from one of our SMB DNA students and then expands his lecture in this video lesson.\u00a0 Sizing, risk management, making more on the right trades requires a system from you.\u00a0 Steve walks you through how winning traders must do just this.<\/p>\n

How to trade the LYFT IPO<\/a><\/p>\n

There are a slew of IPOs coming to market in 2019, not the least of which was LYFT.\u00a0 In detail, I explain how to attack this trading opportunity.\u00a0 Working on your IPO trading system is necessary in this market with all of this opportunity.\u00a0 At the end of this video, I implore you to develop a system for ALL IPOs so you grow your trading account.<\/p>\n

How Reading the Tape was used to make a winning trade<\/a><\/p>\n

We are often asked to share videos on Reading the Tape with the trading community.\u00a0 We do here.<\/p>\n

How did this SMB Junior trader do with his Daily Review<\/a><\/p>\n

Did this Junior Trader do his Daily Review sufficiently?\u00a0 Let’s find out.\u00a0 And also provide an opportunity for you to learn what is essential for an effective Daily Review.\u00a0 If you are not doing a Daily Review, it is hard to take you seriously as a trader.<\/p>\n

*no relevant positions<\/p>\n

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What professional traders are doing that you are not Many underperforming traders reach out to me to share their stories.\u00a0 Also from my seat, I get to see how and why traders are succeeding at our firm and outside with the select elite traders I coach.\u00a0 Professional traders are different.\u00a0 They are different in how they put a trade together.\u00a0 … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":48222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5463],"tags":[30,1193,653,1354,1349],"class_list":["post-48244","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 for traders from the prop desk - April 13, 2019 | 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\/weekend-learning-lessons-for-traders-from-the-prop-desk-4\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Weekend learning lessons for traders from the prop desk - April 13, 2019 | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What professional traders are doing that you are not Many underperforming traders reach out to me to share their stories.\u00a0 Also from my seat, I get to see how and why traders are succeeding at our firm and outside with the select elite traders I coach.\u00a0 Professional traders are different.\u00a0 They are different in how they put a trade together.\u00a0 ... 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