If you are trading a stock “Off the Beaten Path”, without the overriding order flow what in the tape is important? With these types of plays there are opportunities to be found everyday. These plays though require a tape reading skill that has some differences from the skills employed in trading the fresh news, overriding order flow, type plays. One of the main … Read More
Traders Ask: About that SYY Trade
Hi Mike, I just read your blog post on the SYY trade you guys made the other day. It was basically a play for an opening drivethat you wanted to add to your traders’ playbook. Just a quick couple of questions, if you don’t mind: 1) Would you be more aggressive if you see the bid hold at 30.63, drop, … Read More
Trade the Trade
A trader sent me this review of his work of yesterday: I made ~$250-300 right on the open which I was fairly happy with considering the stock I was trading didn’t move exactly how I wanted it to. I was trading actively, controlling my risk and in the trades I needed to be in. Most importantly, I was involved. None … Read More
Making it worse
Bobby Curtis was a world class distance runner who developed insomnia (NY Daily News article). He had to quit competitive running. He tried and considered every solution. And then…… It was on one of his innumerable Internet searches that Bobby Curtis finally found a deceptively simple approach, one that counseled him to follow his normal schedule of activities, no matter … Read More
The SMB PlayBook: Compiling our best trades
We have been doing an exercise with our traders that I thought I would share. We ask our traders to create a playbook. Plays and patterns that make sense to them that they want to trade more of. At the end of the day the trader considers a best trade they made, details this trade in our SMB PlayBook template … Read More
SMB Welcomes Alex Salazar (Experienced FX Trader)
SMB Training is pleased to announce the addition of Alex Salazar to our blogging community. Alex is a trader withmore than 10 years of experience trading the SP 500 Futures and the Forex Market. SMB Training will soon be offering FX trader training and a virtual trading floor where you can connect with traders such as Alex. Alex is the … Read More
Gap, Battle and Go (SYY)
SYY gapped up on the open after earnings. Intraday Fundamentals From Reuters: * Q3 EPS $0.46 vs est $0.41 * Q3 sales $9.76 bln vs est $9.48 bln * Shares up 11 pct, at year-high (Compares with estimates, adds background in paragraoh 2; updates shares) May 9 (Reuters) – Top U.S. food distributor Sysco Corp reported quarterly results that easily … Read More
Refresh Refocus
From The Economist, a piece studying judicial rulings: Decision making is mentally taxing and that, if forced to keep deciding things, people get tired and start looking for easy answers. As active intraday traders do we hit a point where we want easy trades? Do we stop thinking as thoroughly as we should after a series of trades on the Open? … Read More