Bella discusses his trading today after a week of vacation.
Understanding The Environment
The financial stocks are still capable of having sharp down moves intraday circa 2008 and early 2009. We saw this when Meredith Whitney lowered GS estimates intraday on Tuesday and we saw it again today when federal regulators reminded banks to protect against a future rise in interest rates. But on both occasions the “news” was shaken off and the … Read More
Watching Order Flow and Tape Reading To Find Good Trades – TraderInterviews.com
Gilbert “Gman” Mendez, head trader at SMB Capital, sits down for an interview with Tim Bourquin from TraderInterviews.com.
Ten Things Most Exciting for 2010
10. The SEC tax declining by about 35c per thousand shares traded. 2009 was a tough year made much tougher because of this tax being raised 400 percent last year. This will mean a possible extra 17k for some of our traders. 9. Secret Project X. SMB has developed a practice tool we are very proud to unveil to our … Read More
Adapt to Survive High-frequency Trading – SFO Magazine
Mike Bellafiore, partner at SMB Capital, wrote an article for SFO Magazine, titled “Adapt to Survive High-frequency Trading”. In the article, Mike discusses the effect High Frequency Trading (HFT) has had on the markets and the changes short-term traders need to make to adapt. Read the full article here and feel free to leave your comments on this blog. Don’t … Read More
Afterhours and Premarket Information
It was a long day yesterday for me with all things partner on my calendar. One meeting meshed into another. A new meeting overlapped a planned one, which followed a new new one, followed by another planned one. You get my point. I was ready to start yet another meeting with the peeps who help us run SMB Training and … Read More
There’s Always Something On The Move.
If you needed yet another sign that the volatility is low, just look at today’s action after the Federal Reserve rate announcement. Yes, we knew that the rate was going to be steady. And yes we figured that the language in the announcement would be similar to previous ones (Fed plans to keep rates exceptionally low for extended period etc.) … Read More