{"id":51460,"date":"2022-01-04T15:05:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T20:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=51460"},"modified":"2022-01-04T15:05:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T20:05:58","slug":"i-want-to-be-the-best-trader-at-the-prop-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/i-want-to-be-the-best-trader-at-the-prop-firm","title":{"rendered":"I want to be the best trader at the prop firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-51461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/focus-on-being-your-best-1024x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"846\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/focus-on-being-your-best-1024x281.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/focus-on-being-your-best-300x82.jpg 300w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/focus-on-being-your-best-768x211.jpg 768w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/focus-on-being-your-best-610x167.jpg 610w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/focus-on-being-your-best-100x27.jpg 100w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/focus-on-being-your-best-846x232.jpg 846w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/focus-on-being-your-best-1184x325.jpg 1184w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/focus-on-being-your-best.jpg 1373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The proper focus for a trader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Focus on being your best trader.\u00a0 Focusing on anything different may cause you to fall short of\u00a0 your potential.\u00a0 At our prop firm, falling short of your potential is NOT acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>This game is about being your best.\u00a0 Yet, it is common for traders to strive to be better than another trader(s).\u00a0 Have you ever fallen for this human, but yet still, trading trap of yearning to be better than another trader(s)?\u00a0 Their focus is on beating or besting another trader(s) PnL.\u00a0 From my seat, this is not the best approach for your trading career.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lsmnlIoH5qA&amp;t=828s&amp;ab_channel=SMBCapital\">Trader Psychology: Every Elite Trader Has These Six Qualities (with Dr. Steenbarger)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let me share a few experiences coaching traders that solidifies this point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I want to be the best trader at my prop firm!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, I started working with a trader who wanted to be the best at his firm.\u00a0 This trader was solidly in the top ten at his firm, but a good distance away from being number one.\u00a0 After working with this trader, I started feeling uneasy about his talk of being number one.\u00a0 This trader&#8217;s work was so outstanding.\u00a0 His drive was unparcelled.\u00a0 His conscientiousness was off the charts.\u00a0 His trading edge was strong.<\/p>\n<p>Simply, when you start a trading firm you pray that a person and trader like this walks in the door.\u00a0 Great players make great coaches great.\u00a0 Great traders make great firms great.<\/p>\n<p>One thing became crystal clear to me working with this trader&#8230; he was setting his sights too low.\u00a0 He had the potential to significantly surpass the number one trader at his firm.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, after months of banter about being the number one trader at his firm, I just had to say something. I said to this trader, <strong>\u201cI am looking forward to the day when you stop comparing yourself to other traders at your firm because you recognize that is not ambitious enough for your abilities.\u201d<\/strong> I suggested this trader focus on himself.\u00a0 On what he needed to improve in his trading to grow.\u00a0 And we just focused on that.<\/p>\n<p>We just focused on this trader becoming his best.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a few years and today that trader is so much better than that prior number one trader at his firm.\u00a0 Imagine if this trader had just tried to be better than that former number one trader. He would have left tens of millions on the table in PnL.\u00a0 Worse yet, he would have not become his best trader.<\/p>\n<p>And isn&#8217;t that what this is all about?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shark wanted to be the best trader at the firm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I remember when Shark first stated that he wanted to be the best trader at the firm.\u00a0 He too was a long way from number one at the time.\u00a0 I remember, by name and PnL, who made more at the firm at the time.\u00a0 Hah!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-pjZwJgqk10&amp;t=867s&amp;ab_channel=SMBCapital\">Top Senior Trader on what it takes to become a successful trader<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today Shark is in a different league than those traders who were making more. But Shark didn&#8217;t get there by just being better than those prior bigger producers.\u00a0 Shark got there by working on his risk management, expanding a winning strategy into large caps, and developing a new strategy that allowed him to trade much bigger.\u00a0 He got there by focusing on what he could do better to improve his trading.\u00a0 It turns out those other traders ,who used to make more, were not the right comparison for Shark.\u00a0 Imagine if he was just a little better than those traders now, instead of in a class of his own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can this younger trader become the best trader at the firm?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, one of the best younger traders at the firm asked who was number one in December at the firm.\u00a0 This younger trader was number two for the month of December at the firm.\u00a0 This younger trader, like Shark years before, then stated he wants to be the best trader at the firm.\u00a0 This is quite a stretch goal given the PnL of the top traders at our firm and the fact that he is a younger trader.\u00a0 Better than Shark?\u00a0 Better than SWang? Better than Raf? Better than some of the other traders at the firm?<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, there is nothing more fun than running a firm and getting a Gchat from a younger trader thirsting to be the number one trader at the firm.\u00a0 There is nothing more fun than watching potential stars like this grow.\u00a0 When a younger trader is reaching out to you stating he wants to be number one, knowing the PnL of those who are number one, and he&#8217;s thinking about how to be the best these are the traders you want to coach.<\/p>\n<p>You pray when you start a firm traders like this land at your firm. Traders like this can call, gchat, email anytime they want with drive like this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just try and be your best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can this trader be number one?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 He certainly has a ton of ability, impressive trading edge, unusual focus during real-time, natural aggressiveness, and drive.\u00a0 But just like Shark and that other trader who wanted to be number one, the work remains the same.\u00a0 And I said so to this younger trader.\u00a0 I wrote, <strong>&#8220;Just try and be your best.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hey maybe the other traders at the firm are not the right comparison for this younger trader.\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t that be something.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/smb-disclosures?inf_contact_key=86e68ad95cfd2835f919c6dd5a8f153af651f238aa2edbb9c8b7cff03e0b16a0\">Important disclosures<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mike Bellafiore is the Co-Founder of SMB Capital, a proprietary trading desk, and SMB Training, which provides\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingworkshop.com\/\">trading education<\/a>\u00a0in stocks, options, and futures. Bella is the author of<em>\u00a0One Good Trade<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The PlayBook<\/em>. He welcomes your trading questions at\u00a0mbellafiore@smbcap.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proper focus for a trader Focus on being your best trader.\u00a0 Focusing on anything different may cause you to fall short of\u00a0 your potential.\u00a0 At our prop firm, falling short of your potential is NOT acceptable. This game is about being your best.\u00a0 Yet, it is common for traders to strive to be better than another trader(s).\u00a0 Have you &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/i-want-to-be-the-best-trader-at-the-prop-firm\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":51461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5463],"tags":[30,1193,653,357],"class_list":["post-51460","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-goals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I want to be the best trader at the prop firm | 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\/i-want-to-be-the-best-trader-at-the-prop-firm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I want to be the best trader at the prop firm | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The proper focus for a trader Focus on being your best trader.\u00a0 Focusing on anything different may cause you to fall short of\u00a0 your potential.\u00a0 At our prop firm, falling short of your potential is NOT acceptable. 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