{"id":5959,"date":"2010-07-20T16:02:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T20:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2010-07-20T16:09:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T20:09:57","slug":"one-good-trade-hits-the-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/one-good-trade-hits-the-shelves","title":{"rendered":"One Good Trade Hits the Shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary\/dp\/0470529407\/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5960 alignleft\" title=\"one good trade\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/one-good-trade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/one-good-trade.jpg 300w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/one-good-trade-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">In <\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary\/dp\/0470529407\/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1\">One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">, author Mike Bellafiore shares the principles and techniques that have enabled him to navigate the most challenging of markets over the past twelve years. He explains how he has imparted those techniques to an elite desk of traders at SMB Capital. In doing so, he lifts the veil on the inner workings of his firm, shedding light on the challenges of prop trading and insight on why traders succeed or fail.<\/span><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Mike takes you inside the world of prop trading to show how the professionals trade successfully, sharing all the important market lessons he has learned over the course of his career while introducing a fascinating cast of characters, some of whom have succeeded, and too many who have failed. He offers a range of straightforward trading strategies, such as breakouts from congestion, trading off support and resistance, and identifying consolidation setups. Perhaps more importantly, he explains the importance of other, often overlooked skills critical to successful trading: developing consistency in monitoring markets and uncovering trading opportunities, discipline in executing trades, making rational risk\/reward bets, and managing trading capital. He reveals those skills through illustrative stories of the growth of his trading firm and the ups and downs of traders he has trained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Becoming a better trader requires discipline, a thick playbook of trading setups , and well-rounded trading skills, and <\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary\/dp\/0470529407\/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1\">One Good Trade<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> will show you how to develop all three.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Get your copy of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary\/dp\/0470529407\/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1\"><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><em>One Good Trade<\/em> on Amazon<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In One Good Trade: Inside the Highly 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