{"id":49162,"date":"2019-10-26T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=49162"},"modified":"2023-03-31T12:03:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:03:03","slug":"weekend-learning-lessons-for-traders-from-the-prop-desk-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/weekend-learning-lessons-for-traders-from-the-prop-desk-22","title":{"rendered":"Weekend learning lessons for traders from the prop desk &#8211; October 26, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-49156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/wait-for-the-real-trade-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/wait-for-the-real-trade-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/wait-for-the-real-trade-1-300x169.jpg 300w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/wait-for-the-real-trade-1-768x432.jpg 768w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/wait-for-the-real-trade-1-610x343.jpg 610w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/wait-for-the-real-trade-1-100x56.jpg 100w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/wait-for-the-real-trade-1-846x476.jpg 846w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/wait-for-the-real-trade-1-1184x666.jpg 1184w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/wait-for-the-real-trade-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rJgFkBJlJZE&amp;t=1091s\">This Trader Needed to Wait for the Real Technical Analysis Setup (Tutorial)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8u89hMA2was&amp;t=61s\">Options Income Trading: Why Do You Win So Frequently<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8-xg_dVojro&amp;t=1s\">When Technical Analysis Trades Are More Likely to Work<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-pjZwJgqk10\">Top Senior Trader on what it takes to become a successful trader<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cfGdoIFFP1I&amp;t=116s\">Top 5 Ways to Improve Risk Management<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*no relevant positions<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/smb-disclosures?inf_contact_key=86e68ad95cfd2835f919c6dd5a8f153af651f238aa2edbb9c8b7cff03e0b16a0\"><strong>Important disclosures<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Trader Needed to Wait for the Real Technical Analysis Setup (Tutorial) Options Income Trading: Why Do You Win So Frequently When Technical Analysis Trades Are More Likely to Work Top Senior Trader on what it takes to become a successful trader Top 5 Ways to Improve Risk Management *no relevant positions Important disclosures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":49156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5463],"tags":[1735,1536,1332,5526],"class_list":["post-49162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bella-daily-update","tag-options-income-trading","tag-risk-management","tag-technical-analysis","tag-top-senior-trader"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - 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