The PlayBook Checkup: Unusual Options Activity in $SUNE

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Below is our newest installment of the 2014 edition of The PlayBook Checkup with Bella, author of One Good Trade and The PlayBook. During these sessions a trade archived by a Junior Trader from our desk will be reviewed by Bella. Real-time attendance is free for SMBU Tools subscribers, who can also ask questions during the event. In this video … Read More

$KORS Short Trade

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Watch Mike Bellafiore, author of One Good Trade and The PlayBook, describe a Short Trade he made in $KORS to college trader training students.  Mike walks traders through why he wanted to short $KORS, where, how to add to his short position, and the two short setups offered intraday.  We hope you enjoy this video! [useful_banner_manager banners=9 count=1] “You can … 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

Properly Setting Your Trading Goals to Lower Stress

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As traders we often set some sort of performance “goals”. We might say something like “My goal is to make $5000 per month trading”. There are problems with that goal, the biggest problem being that we don’t actually have control over how much money we make in any given trade. We might have a lot of influence on how much … Read More