Seth Freudberg discusses how to diversify your options portfolio. In our Daily Video he focuses on how time is one of the best means of diversifying market neutral income trades. It’s best to diversify your options income strategies so that they are not all subject to the exact same risks. One important form of diversification is to spread the initiation of … Read More
3 steps to win as a trader
In a previous post, I suggested this video on how to win, by Brett Ledbetter. How do we apply the lessons from this video of performance wisdom and apply it to our trading, so we improve? How does this video help us win as a trader? Consider three simple steps to improve as a trader and start winning: 1) Determine … Read More
Lessons learned in Chicago from experienced traders
Lessons Learned in Chicago From Experienced Traders from smbcapital This week I visited Chicago and with experienced traders covering different products and in different structures. I visited with traders at hedge funds, prop firms, broker dealers, trading education centers, independent traders, exchanges, and institutions. These seasoned veterans expressed their ideas in options, futures, stocks, automated trading, and international markets. … Read More
Trading Idea to Optimized Portfolio Backtest: A Guide
Andrew shows you an example of taking a signal idea and quickly documenting a series of tests. The entire process took a few hours and represents 15 years, 120+ stocks, and 10s of thousands of back trades. * no relevant positions
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Here is how you win as a trader
Below is wonderful video for you to watch to help build your inner coach from Brett Ledbetter. Take 15 minutes and watch it this weekend. It will give you many ideas to improve as a trader. Now the subject matter in this video is sports performance. Sports after all is a performance game. Trading is also a performance game. … Read More
Podcast: How to find your trading edge
Above is a podcast for which I was interviewed on generating trading edge and below are it’s details from the podcaster. Episode 34 of the Desire To Trade Podcast features Mike Bellafiore, the co-founder of SMB Capital, a well-known proprietary trading firm based in New York, USA. Mike is also the author of One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive … Read More