At the start of year, our firm meets with our traders to review their goals for 2019. We trade in teams so we meet in teams. Each trader goes over their goals before their Team Leader and other teammates. Our Floor Manager, Dr. Steenbarger and I participate and offer feedback. Let’s give you an inside look into what we … Read More
Iron Condor Trading in Volatile Markets
Amy Meissner returns to the Options Tribe to present Trading Iron Condors through the October 2018 Market Meltdown. Learn more about Amy’s strategies at smbu.com/amy
Minimizing Damage on Your Worst Trading Days: 5 Ideas to Keep Your Trades on Track
Hi Mike, I’m a DNA member and really enjoyed your book One Good Trade. I have a problem’s with about 5-6 days a year that are big loses. Really hurting my annual results. Thoughts on best practices….Do you recommend a platform that will cut me off? Thoughts? @MikeBellafiore Recently, I asked one our consistently profitable traders his plan to make … Read More
Mastering Position Sizing: Key to Growing Your Trading Account
You make a great trade, but then lament that your trading position was too small. You take a loss on a trade, and then grieve that your trading position was too big. If you could just get your position sizing right, then you could start making significant profits. Then you could have a realistic chance to become a CPT- Consistently … Read More
Weekend learnings lessons for traders from SMB (after one our best trading weeks)
This was one of the best trading weeks we have had as a firm. The pot names offered outsized opportunity. We have been fighting the overextension in TLRY for several trading sessions, with hedges and with responsible max losses, and traders on the desk were finally paid. I loved seeing the growth in trade structure by traders on the desk. … Read More
How to achieve your trading goals
This is a guest post from Joseph Gelb (Princeton ’20), SMB Capital- Summer Intern 2018 Jason Graystone, of Tier One Trading, recently interviewed SMB Capital Co-Founder Mike Bellafiore in this video. Topics of Discussion: What do seven-figure traders have in common that Mike mentors/coaches at SMB and outside the firm? What formula does Mike observe that the best traders at … Read More