The Rise of College Traders

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SMB has five traders for our June class who already have proven active-trading records in college. We get emails from guys making serious money consistently and yet are in college. I have never seen this before. Do you see how many awesome blogs are out there written by college traders? I wrote an article recently about the thirst for trading education … Read More

Ideas from the Prop Desk to Improve Your Trading – The Partner Rips (Video)

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Last week I presented at #Stocktoberfest the @Stocktwits event masterminded by @howardlindzon.  My presentation was titled: 8 Ideas from the Prop Desk to Improve Your Trading.  Below is part 4 of the video series reconstructing my presentation. In this video Mike discusses: 1) Larges losses an SMB partner was taking in afterhours trading 2) The importance of understanding your edge 3) … Read More

Unlocking Trading Ideas from the Prop Desk: A Trader’s Treasure Hunt for Edge (Video)

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Last week I presented at #Stocktoberfest the @Stocktwits event masterminded by @howardlindzon.  My presentation was titled: 8 Ideas from the Prop Desk to Improve Your Trading.  Below is part 3 of the video series reconstructing my presentation. In this video below Mike discusses: 1) The importance of reviewing your past trades to find your trading edge 2) The value of learning … Read More

Ideas from the Prop Desk to Improve Your Trading – The Non-Scalable Trader

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Last week I presented at #Stocktoberfest the @Stocktwits event masterminded by @howardlindzon.  My presentation was titled: 8 Ideas from the Prop Desk to Improve Your Trading.  Below is part 2 of the video series reconstructing my presentation. You can sign up for our free daily trading video here! Mike Bellafiore is the Co-Founder of SMB Capital and SMBU, which provides trading … Read More

Prop Desk Insights: Enhancing Trading Equanimity (Video)

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Last week I presented at #Stocktoberfest the @Stocktwits event masterminded by @howardlindzon.  My presentation was titled: 8 Ideas from the Prop Desk to Improve Your Trading.  Below is Part I of an 8-part video series reconstructing that presentation for the trading/investing community. The highlights of this video are: 1) An anecdote about Shark, a professional trader with a quality to … Read More

8 Ideas from the Prop Desk to Improve Your Trading (#Stocktoberfest)

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This week I presented at #Stocktoberfest the @Stocktwits event masterminded by @howardlindzon.  My presentation was titled: 8 Ideas from the Prop Desk to Improve Your Trading.  Below are the slides and main ideas from my discussion. Equanimity Just intake the data the market is offering and then make the right decision- like Shark.  Don’t root.  If you do, then your … Read More

GoPro ($GPRO) Momentum IPO Trade

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Mike Bellafiore, author and co-founder of SMB Capital and SMBU.com highlights a Momentum Trade opportunity in the IPO GoPro (stock symbol $GPRO) with our college training class. Some Highlights: Mike explains the buy signal for this momentum trade. Technical levels in IPOs just one trading day old are significant. Understand this is a momentum trade which has little to do … Read More