{"id":8674,"date":"2010-12-06T15:22:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T20:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=8674"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:38:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:38:23","slug":"who-believes-in-you-as-a-trader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/who-believes-in-you-as-a-trader","title":{"rendered":"Who Believes in You as a Trader?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is lots of talk about Coach Ryan the coach before tonight&#8217;s J&#8230;E&#8230;T&#8230;S Patriots battle. \u00a0Coach Ryan is a believer in\u00a0making sure his players believe. \u00a0In a Bloomberg.com column the importance of belief found another sport:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking of winning, Duke basketball\u2019s Mike Krzyzewski, one<br \/>\nof the most respected and successful coaches in team sports,<br \/>\nlikes to use the same four words as Ryan. He considers them the<br \/>\nmost important words in all of sports.<br \/>\nWorth noting is that these four words were the last thing<br \/>\nCoach K, as Krzyzewski is known, uttered to Christian Laettner<br \/>\nand Grant Hill before they perfectly executed one of the most<br \/>\nimprobable and thrilling plays in college basketball history.<br \/>\n\u201cI believe in you,\u201d Coach K told them. Hence, they<br \/>\nbelieved that a ball could be thrown the length of the court,<br \/>\ncorralled and converted all in 2.1 seconds. Here were two of the<br \/>\nmost talented and accomplished players in college basketball<br \/>\nthat season and Krzyzewski still felt the need to issue that<br \/>\nreminder. Hill once told me that, at that moment, it mattered to<br \/>\nhear those words.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In <em>One Good Trade<\/em> I shared a story of a trader who I seemingly everyday<br \/>\nimplored could do it. \u00a0I have spent many moments, closed door, looking right into their eyes moments, saying flatly, &#8220;You can do it!&#8221; \u00a0During &#8220;Wall Street Warriors&#8221; a lecture was filmed of me exalting to new trainees, &#8220;you must believe.&#8221; \u00a0 Who believes in you as a trader? \u00a0Somebody needs to!<\/p>\n<p>Mike Bellafiore<\/p>\n<p>Author, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0470529407\/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d2_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-2&amp;pf_rd_r=0K9ZWNMFTXBV6YBR7XF9&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=470938631&amp;pf_rd_i=507846\"><em>One Good Trade<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is lots of talk about Coach Ryan the coach before tonight&#8217;s J&#8230;E&#8230;T&#8230;S Patriots battle. \u00a0Coach Ryan is a believer in\u00a0making sure his players believe. \u00a0In a Bloomberg.com column the importance of belief found another sport: Speaking of winning, Duke basketball\u2019s Mike Krzyzewski, one of the most respected and successful coaches in team sports, likes to use the same four &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/who-believes-in-you-as-a-trader\" 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":[1502,4674,18,1193,1354,4690,1349],"class_list":["post-8674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-bellafiore-bellas-blogs","tag-belief","tag-one-good-trade","tag-smb-capital","tag-trader-education","tag-trading-coach","tag-trading-education","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>Who Believes in You as a Trader? | 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\/who-believes-in-you-as-a-trader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Who Believes in You as a Trader? | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There is lots of talk about Coach Ryan the coach before tonight&#8217;s J&#8230;E&#8230;T&#8230;S Patriots battle. \u00a0Coach Ryan is a believer in\u00a0making sure his players believe. \u00a0In a Bloomberg.com column the importance of belief found another sport: Speaking of winning, Duke basketball\u2019s Mike Krzyzewski, one of the most respected and successful coaches in team sports, likes to use the same four ... 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