“You can be better tomorrow than you are today!”– Mike Bellafiore, The PlayBook At SMBU we asked our trading community to share their trading goals for 2014 with us. If you have not shared your trading goals for 2014 with us, please consider sharing them here. I made a list of my goals in a recent post, Seven Goals for This Trader … Read More
SMBU’s Top Ten Trading Blog Posts of 2013
SMBU’s Top Ten trading blog posts for 2013: The Failure Rate of a Proprietary Trader The Opportunity for a Prop Trader Lessons Learned From a Million Dollar Loser What I Learned From the Best Trader at Citibank Ten Takeaways From a Top Trading Coach Do You Have a System to Identify and Trade Breakouts? Ten Ideas for Creating a Good … Read More
Seven Goals for This Trader in 2014
Here are my personal goals for 2014: 1) Hit my target weight goal. I had a bit of a health scare this year, when an EKG came back abnormal during a routine life insurance exam. Hitting my target weight is now essential according to my cardiologist. I wear a fitbit to calculate my steps each day. My goal is 10k steps a … Read More
A Consolidation Trade ($TDC)
During SMB’s most recent The PlayBook Checkup with Bella we discuss: A Consolidation Trade ($TDC). This is a basic intraday technical analysis pattern that every developing trader should learn. We discuss: Who cares what $MS thinks about $TDC and how this should affect your trading? A 52-week high is more important than an intraday high in $SPY A news pattern … Read More
The PlayBook Checkup ($TRLA Strong Uptrend)
Below is our third edition of The PlayBook Checkup with Bella, author of One Good Trade and The PlayBook. During these sessions a new trader from our desk will have a PlayBook trade they archived reviewed by Bella. Attendance is free for SMBU Tools subscribers, who can also ask questions during the event. Watch this review of a Strong Uptrend in $TRLA. Highlights: a) The … Read More
Should You Develop Process AND Performance Goals for 2014?
Hello Mike, I hope you have had a happy holiday and great end of the year since last time I saw you in Phoenix earlier this year. I have been working on creating 2014 goals for my portfolio but I ran into a problem that maybe you can advise on. The main goals consist of having certain % returns or … Read More
Can a Day Trader Manage a $10 Million Account?
Hi Mike! I randomly came across the name SMB Capital four times in the past (a story I will tell you about later) before I had the chance to meet you at an open house that you and (Iceman from The PlayBook) had for college students back in April of this year. I have a BA in economics from Baruch … Read More
Let Rodney Be Rodney
Good afternoon Bella! I’ve been crunching my trading stats lately, and see lots of positives but also some things that clearly need improving. A positive is my stats off the open, 9:30-9:50. Those are very strong. However, what is severely lacking is my trading performance from 1:30-4pm. I know you’ve talked about how within the trading day, there are three separate … Read More