I shorted BIG in the late morning today. It gapped down on its earnings release and then proceeded to consolidate below 36.70, which in my view is an important long term support area. My initial short was when a buyer dropped at 36.20. It quickly dropped about 30 cents and then traded right back up to the 36.20s. I shorted … Read More
Trading Lesson #1: Buying A Strong Stock At Prior Day’s Afternoon Support
New blog format: Short trading lessons with charts for illustration. Trading Lesson #1: Second Day Play–Buying A Strong Stock After It Pulls Back To Prior Afternoon’s Support Area INHX was on our radar yesterday after another fresh news drug catalyst. As you can see from the two charts below INHX is trending higher on multiple time frames. Here is the … Read More
Using Prior Days’ Price Action–NFLX
Prior to the Open of Friday’s shortened trading session there was not much in the way of fresh news catalysts. So my first trading choices were second and third day plays. For those of you who are new to the SMB Blog you can use the “search” feature on the blog to review posts explaining how and why we trade … Read More
Student Training Program Webinar
Tomorrow, Friday November 18th, 2011 at 5:45PM EST, we will be hosting a webinar aimed at students looking to get a head start on their trading careers. We offer a unique opportunity for students to go through our professional training while in school! Additionally, Steve Spencer will be giving a presentation on stock selection. So tune in to hear some … Read More
Adapting to This Market as a Day Trader
What are you doing as a day trader to adapt and succeed in this tape? This market can be rough for novice day traders trying to figure out a way to find consistency. The bots are alive and well, the volatility remains high and headline risk abounds. Trades that worked only a few short months ago are now being piled … Read More
Hurry Find the Band Aides!
As children we all used to enjoy putting our parents’ big shoes on our little feet and trying to walk. It was an awesomefeeling until we tried to go a bit too fast. The problem was we just weren’t big enough to handle those big shoes at high speed! I guess we all have an innate desire to grow up … Read More
Fear–Not So Much
(This post was written on November 2nd) I spent a good amount of time during Tuesday’s AM Meeting discussing how when fear comes back into the market you need to adjust your trading style very quickly. I was particularly demonstrative on this point as my experience has shown me over the years that traders, especially less experienced traders, are very … Read More
Why I Was Long NFLX
The other day I tweeted that I was long NFLX and short SPY and that it felt kind of “weird”. I wrote “weird” because the easy money trading NFLX had been on the short side for over a month and at the time the SPY was in a multi-week uptrend. As an intraday trader I often will take trades that … Read More