You mention, “Stocks in Play” a number of times. At the risk of sounding a bit green, I suppose this means stocks that have enough volume and movement to make it worthwhile to trade, correct? If this is the case, I’m wondering why you don’t trade the S&P emini? Maybe you do, but I haven’t heard you mention it yet … Read More
Two Lessons from an Improving Trader
Hi Mike, I just wanted to take the time to say thank you. A friend of mine recommended your book ‘One Good Trade’ (so much so he had ordered it for me insisting I read it) and it has not only helped my trading in so many ways, but has also been very inspirational! If you don’t mind, a little … Read More
Finding and Increasing your Trading Edge
One trader on our desk offers a best practice to emulate. This trader had been gross negative 3/4 past months prior to June. He is a hard worker, focused on the markets, disciplined and well-trained. He is one of the guys who can make it. Yet, while I wouldn’t say it was a large deal that he was not yet … Read More
PnL as the Outdated Trading Stat
Will PnL be an outdated trading stat one day? Five years ago MLB pitchers were mostly defined by Wins and how many they had. Today this is seen as an outdated stat that does not tell you the real value of the pitcher. Sabermetrics has taught us there are more important measurements of a pitcher’s contribution like: percentage of ground … Read More
Your 30 Day Trading Challenge
The TED2011 video below with Matt Cutts of Google ($GOOG) challenges you to try something new for 30 days. We can apply this to our trading. What something new can you do each day for the next 30 days to improve your trading? Some ideas: 1) Spend 30 minutes each day building and refining custom filters of your best setups 2) Spend … Read More
How to Find the Setups Best for Your Trading Personality
Hey Mike, I was going through The Foundation today and came across your lecture at Indiana University. In it you talked about how traders tends to develop an inclination to particular types of set ups. I was wondering if you had any tips for discovering what kind of trading personality would best suit me. Or if it’s something that can … Read More
Inspiring Journey: From Career Change to Becoming a Full-Time Trader
Hello Mike, Thank you for SMBU and your video’s. Very motivational and inspiring. Have you ever had older people, (40-50’s), enter the trading business? I’ve been in aerospace manufacturing biz for over 25 yrs now, its ok, but my passion is following equity markets and this passion has grown for a very long time. Any advice for someone such as … Read More
Lessons from a Trader Succeeding
In One Good Trade and The PlayBook pieces of the books discuss why and how some traders we trained became successful. Recently during an internal review of our traders, we identified one new trader with an exceptional equity curve (his earnings to losses were outsized). Dr. Steenbarger has suggested to us in the past to study in depth our successful … Read More