{"id":7417,"date":"2010-10-01T16:19:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=7417"},"modified":"2023-04-12T16:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T20:22:19","slug":"a-bucket-of-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/a-bucket-of-trades","title":{"rendered":"A Bucket of Trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say I told you I wanted to improve my golf game. \u00a0Specifically I wanted to get better at driving the ball. \u00a0Currently I can drive the ball about 250 yards because I am no good \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0And I continued that yesterday I worked very hard on game. \u00a0I went to my local driving range, parked the Lexus (the car I probably would own if I lived in the suburbs), took out my Phil Mickelson Calloway Driver (obtained through a special contact of Dan Mirkin of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trade-ideas.com\/\">Trade-Ideas<\/a>), and hit ONE drive. \u00a0Then I hit the clubhouse, ordered the cheeseburger special (they have this proprietary mayo sauce that is delicious) washed down with a Sam Adams Summer Ale in a chilled mug, packed up my clubs and headed home to catch Sportscenter. \u00a0What would you think about my chances of getting better?<\/p>\n<p>The challenge with trading is that often we get ONE opportunity to trade a particular trading set up per day. \u00a0And then most pack up their things and head out. \u00a0We set a goal to improve our breakout set ups. \u00a0And then an eight hour work day gives us ONE breakout trade. \u00a0How can we get better trading breakouts with such limited opportunity to work on this trade?<\/p>\n<p>If you thought it absurd for me to get better at golf hitting ONE driver of practice, then what do you do each day with your trading that is\u00a0analogous\u00a0to hitting a bucket of drivers?<\/p>\n<p>Mike Bellafiore<\/p>\n<p>Author, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/9EvLKA\">One Good Trade<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say I told you I wanted to improve my golf game. \u00a0Specifically I wanted to get better at driving the ball. \u00a0Currently I can drive the ball about 250 yards because I am no good \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0And I continued that yesterday I worked very hard on game. \u00a0I went to my local driving range, parked the Lexus (the car &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/a-bucket-of-trades\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1417,4674,30,18,1193,653,1354,1349],"class_list":["post-7417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-bellafiore-bellas-blogs","tag-fx-trading","tag-one-good-trade","tag-prop-trading","tag-smb-capital","tag-trader-education","tag-trader-training","tag-trading-coach","tag-trading-mentor","no-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Bucket of Trades | 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\/a-bucket-of-trades\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Bucket of Trades | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Let&#8217;s say I told you I wanted to improve my golf game. \u00a0Specifically I wanted to get better at driving the ball. \u00a0Currently I can drive the ball about 250 yards because I am no good \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0And I continued that yesterday I worked very hard on game. \u00a0I went to my local driving range, parked the Lexus (the car ... 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