{"id":5156,"date":"2010-06-02T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T18:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2023-08-02T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T20:49:12","slug":"old-school-lessons-from-mike-bellafiore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/old-school-lessons-from-mike-bellafiore","title":{"rendered":"Old School Lessons from Mike Bellafiore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfomag.com\/eSFO\/eSFO2010_06.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5157\" title=\"SFO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/SFO.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a>Mike Bellafiore, Partner at SMB Capital, and author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-0470529407.html\"><em>One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading<\/em><\/a> was featured in the recent issue of SFO Magazine. In his article, <em>Old School Lessons For Mastering Today&#8217;s Markets<\/em>, Bella discusses what it takes to become a great trader in today&#8217;s changing market. A must read for new traders! The article can be found on page 26 of <strong>SFO Magazine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Bellafiore, Partner at SMB Capital, and author of One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading was featured in the recent issue of SFO Magazine. In his article, Old School Lessons For Mastering Today&#8217;s Markets, Bella discusses what it takes to become a great trader in today&#8217;s changing market. A must read for new traders! The &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/old-school-lessons-from-mike-bellafiore\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":5157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[1046,530,848,1045,1028,30,50,1029,18,81,1047,38,76],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-comments-2","category-mike-bellafiore-bellas-blogs","tag-bellafiore","tag-from","tag-lessons","tag-mike","tag-old","tag-prop-trading","tag-proprietary-trading","tag-school","tag-smb-capital","tag-smb-training","tag-teaching","tag-trading","tag-training"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Old School Lessons from Mike Bellafiore | 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\/old-school-lessons-from-mike-bellafiore\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Old School Lessons from Mike Bellafiore | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mike Bellafiore, Partner at SMB Capital, and author of One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading was featured in the recent issue of SFO Magazine. 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