{"id":53787,"date":"2023-04-21T15:21:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T19:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=53787"},"modified":"2023-04-21T15:21:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T19:21:57","slug":"you-are-trading-too-many-stocks-new-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/you-are-trading-too-many-stocks-new-traders","title":{"rendered":"You are trading too many stocks (new traders)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/new-office.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"743\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/new-office.png 743w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/new-office-300x296.png 300w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/new-office-610x601.png 610w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/new-office-100x99.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You have always wanted to trade for a living.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t want a boss.\u00a0 You want unlimited upside with your income.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t want your pay determined by office politics.\u00a0 You want to be paid based on what you are worth and what you produce.\u00a0 You love figuring out the daily puzzle that is the market.\u00a0 You love trading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The start of your stock trading career<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You put in the time.\u00a0 You study.\u00a0 You train.\u00a0 You develop some trades with edge.<\/p>\n<p>You are now ready to trade for a living.\u00a0 Perhaps you have landed a spot on proprietary trading desk, like SMB Capital.\u00a0 Perhaps, you are beginning as an independent retail trader.\u00a0 Either way, you have a trading account.\u00a0 You are ready to do this.<\/p>\n<p>Or so you think.<\/p>\n<p>And then you start.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The common mistake you must avoid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53824\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"904\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stop.png 904w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stop-300x97.png 300w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stop-768x249.png 768w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stop-610x198.png 610w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stop-100x32.png 100w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/stop-846x274.png 846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And too often I see new traders make the same common mistake.\u00a0 I see this over and over and over again.\u00a0 I saw it when we started SMB.\u00a0 I see it now.\u00a0 Heck I just saw it the other day.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s stop doing this.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s discuss the problem and how to solve it.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s put you on the best path to be successful as a trader.<\/p>\n<p>And taking a step back, I saw a new trader just start with us do this.\u00a0 And quite honestly it pissed me off.\u00a0 I think highly of this new trader.\u00a0 He has ability.\u00a0 He is so much better than he has shown.\u00a0 His poor start is not acceptable.\u00a0 He is much better than this.\u00a0 I have to say, I am disappointed in him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stop trading too many stocks when you start!\u00a0<\/strong> Stop! Start the right way or else you are going to dig yourself a deep, unnecessary trading hole.\u00a0 You are going to feel frustration that you do not need to feel.\u00a0 You will be inflicting pain on yourself that you shouldn&#8217;t.\u00a0 I know when I trade too many stocks I feel it.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what that one new trader wrote in his Daily Report Card (DRC) about his poor trading&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Firstly, I rarely perform well when pressing or when trying to do too much. I have definitely felt the need to perform well right off the bat and this has led me to veer away from my style of trading in the follow ways:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; <strong>Focusing on too many tickers in the first 30 min<\/strong>, causing me to get distracting from what I have game planned. (end)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay so I am admittedly pissed and disappointed in this trader, which actually is a good signal to me.\u00a0 I believe in this trader.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t have gotten pissed if I didn&#8217;t have high hopes for this trader.\u00a0 So now we need to find a constructive way to help this trader.\u00a0 I needed to communicate this was not acceptable and provide guidance.\u00a0 I responded to this new trader in a curt email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you are not permitted to trade more than three stocks in a day going forward, until you show you can trade 3 profitably<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The phone call with this new stock trader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I followed up with a phone call to this new trader. I was honest with the new trader.\u00a0 I communicated his start was not acceptable and surprising.\u00a0 That I believed in him and his ability to succeed and that he didn&#8217;t need to press at the start.\u00a0 That pressing and overtrading is the way to get fired and lose his seat.\u00a0 I was clear we expected this trader just to be himself, at this moment in time in his trading career.\u00a0 To just be consistent and build from there.\u00a0 And do what he does well.\u00a0 That would be more than enough.\u00a0 Slow and steady and consistent progress is the way.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly this trader was positive the very next day.<\/p>\n<p>When you trade too many stocks as a new trader all you learn is how bad you are as a trader when you trade too many stocks.\u00a0 Your trading results will not be an accurate representation of what you are capable of as a trader.\u00a0 And that is just&#8230;not necessary.<\/p>\n<p>This example from the desk provides an excellent opportunity to find solutions for this trading problem.\u00a0 I know this trader is not the only person to have ever struggled with this issue.\u00a0 I know many of you do as well.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s offer some solutions so we can do better&#8230;together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6 Solutions to solve this trading problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Save enough money to survive the very real learning curve.\u00a0<\/strong> Notice how this trader is pressing at the start.\u00a0 This tends to be from a need to make money.\u00a0 Have enough money saved so you do not have to make money for 1-2 years. Recently, a former intern visited for lunch.\u00a0 He took a job at an investment bank.\u00a0 His present job is not what he really wants to do.\u00a0 He wants to trade.\u00a0 And he has had a lot of success with his trading done part-time.\u00a0 His account has grown to approximately 3 million dollars.\u00a0 But but but&#8230;he has a number he wants to hit before he quits his safe, investment bank job and trades for a living.\u00a0 And he will not start until he hits this number.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Be YOU at the start.<\/strong>\u00a0 Don&#8217;t try and be Shark (one of our best traders at the firm).\u00a0 YOU are NOT Shark.\u00a0 Be YOU- a new trader building your niche and your trading edges in the market.\u00a0 Focus on being consistent.\u00a0 Being consistent at the start is YOU being a star, as a new trader.\u00a0 This is enough.\u00a0 This is awesome.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Start trading with only 2-4 stocks.<\/strong>\u00a0 Prove that you can trade profitably with 2-4 stocks first.\u00a0 Then only after being profitable increase the number of stocks you trade.\u00a0 Then trade 5-6 stocks.\u00a0 Then only after being profitable increase the number of stocks you trade.\u00a0 Then trade 6-8 and rinse and repeat.\u00a0 And if you are not making money trading 2-4 stocks, then drop to trading 1-2 stocks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Take scheduled breaks during the trading day.\u00a0<\/strong> Schedule breaks for 11AM, lunch, and before the close to reset.\u00a0 Check during each break if you are trading too many stocks.\u00a0 These scheduled breaks give you an opportunity to catch yourself trading too many names.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Find an accountability partner.\u00a0<\/strong> Share the maximum number of stocks you can trade with a partner.\u00a0 Ask that partner to hold you accountable to staying within these guardrails.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Think like two sustaining successful experienced traders from our firm.<\/strong>\u00a0 An experienced trader on our NYC desk shared a conversation he had with another experienced trader on the desk.\u00a0 They had noticed another experienced trader in our space at a prop firm trade too big, lose too much, lose too much too fast, and get fired.\u00a0 They both shared the same thoughts.\u00a0 That this was not smart and irresponsible by this experienced trader.\u00a0 These two experienced traders preferred to make profits consistently.\u00a0 Too much volatility in their PnL was not for them.\u00a0 This is how you sit in that trading seat for the next ten years.\u00a0 And being able to do so is how you make real money.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>From all of us at SMB, train and trade well.<\/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:\/\/broadcast.smbtraining.com\/smbwebinar1\/?utm_source=Blog-Bella\">trading education<\/a>\u00a0in stocks, options, and futures. 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