{"id":8030,"date":"2010-11-02T09:57:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T13:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=8030"},"modified":"2021-05-06T14:53:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T18:53:39","slug":"the-importance-of-visualization-exercises-a-testimonial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-importance-of-visualization-exercises-a-testimonial","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Visualization Exercises: A Testimonial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Bellafiore,<\/p>\n<p>I must stop by to thank you for your amazing work on the SMB blog as well as the Stocktwits University shows. I have\u00a0recently gotten into trading, replacing flying airplanes with AA to doing this full time (at least trying my best). Your visualization techniques are exactly what we do in the airline business on top of simulator exercises. Learning all the systems, limitations and emergency procedures of an aircraft \u00a0are a requirement, and all of it must be done in 45 days. Needless to say it is lots of work! Your philosophy resembles what is done in the airline industry and the techniques I used as a flight instructor to teach students, and they work. I and am extremely excited to have found your blog (through which I am almost done reading, as well as reading your book which was a gold mine!). It is sad to see other institutions not pushing it as much when we both know it is a proven technique.<br \/>\nYou provide on top of these great tools inspirational thoughts to motivate aspiring traders like me, and am sure benefit all others willing to learn and improve.<\/p>\n<p>A big thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Bellafiore, I must stop by to thank you for your amazing work on the SMB blog as well as the Stocktwits University shows. I have\u00a0recently gotten into trading, replacing flying airplanes with AA to doing this full time (at least trying my best). Your visualization techniques are exactly what we do in the airline business on top of simulator &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-importance-of-visualization-exercises-a-testimonial\" 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":[18,1193,1354,1349,309],"class_list":["post-8030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-bellafiore-bellas-blogs","tag-smb-capital","tag-trader-education","tag-trading-coach","tag-trading-mentor","tag-visualization","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>The Importance of Visualization Exercises: A Testimonial | 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\/the-importance-of-visualization-exercises-a-testimonial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Importance of Visualization Exercises: A Testimonial | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mr Bellafiore, I must stop by to thank you for your amazing work on the SMB blog as well as the Stocktwits University shows. 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