We had a recognized trading psychologist (name not mentioned for compliance reasons) visit SMB yesterday. One of traders pro-actively sent this coach a question about his development progress. Dear Dr. (Well-known trading coach), I would like to thank you very much for your talk at SMB Capital. It was a real privilege to have met you in real live after reading your … Read More
How Do You Find The Best Stocks to Trade?
Hi Mike… quick question…. while your probably constantly reevaluating throughout the day, would you say its common for SMB to come up with another set of “in play stocks” for afternoon trading, or do you tend to stick with the original ideas from the morning? thanks for all your advice and thoughts. @mikebellafiore 1. We are experts in choosing the … Read More
Is He a “Real Trader”?
I come from a prop firm that’s heavily composed of traders that scalp for a penny profit on list of selective stocks that meet the necessary criteria. Yesterday, our firm has been banned for a week on using the routes on these selective stocks that are necessary to implement the penny scalping strategy from our provider due to selective traders … Read More
Don’t Dig a Trading Hole Like These Traders
The below is an excellent reminder for us as traders. It comes from a trade recap after trading today. 1) When returning from vacation take it slow. 1a) An experienced trader ripped it up on a new platform yesterday prompting an email from SMB to get used to the system- take it slow. 2) Let the market come to you. … Read More
Bounce or Scalp? Knowing the Difference for Successful Trading
I received another great question from The PlayBook Webinar Series of last week on our 2nd Day Trade in $EDU. Here it is: Just my opinion, but since the stock is coming from $20 or $22 is it the previous day, I think a lot of people would have tried to catch the bounce at 13.50 to 13.70 at 11 … Read More
This is When You Should Call Yourself a Jacka$$
Hi Mr. Bellafiore, I just finished watching your first playbook webinar (was on vacation during the actual presentation) and I just wanted to say thank you for doing this for the trading community and I really took a lot away from this. The point you made towards the end about being hard on yourself about your very best setups really … Read More
How Do You Stay In That Position?
Hi Mike, Thanks for last week’s webinar. I think it was helpful to learn more about the specific short trade in EDU last year. Especially for scholars such as me, a webinar is a good chance to stay close to you guys. This is in itself helpful because it keeps the motivation high. Since you asked webinar participants for feedback … Read More
Trading Educators Are Showoffs
I received this feedback from an attendee of The PlayBook webinar series. I was only on the webinar for about 15 minutes, so perhaps this is an unfair comment….. But, I thought the seminar seemed to be more about how cool you SMB guys were than providing good useable info. I personally would evaluate the seminar on the quality … Read More