I received this trader question via email on fade trading. Here goes: After the (well-known trader coach visit) meeting, I’ve come to realize I don’t ask enough questions from the people who are more experienced than I am. Today was a dull day, lost about $150, I don’t have a lot of talk about except this APOL trade. I’d like … Read More
What Effect Does Living Frugally Play in The Success of A Trader?
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
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