Denise Shull, author of Market Mind Games, was our guest speaker today during our Midday Meeting at SMB. Denise discussed: 1) How traders should learn to use emotions to make better trading decisions 2) Why most trader psychology advice gets it wrong by teaching you not to feel emotions 3) The reason why some traders have a need to be … Read More
How I Categorize My Intraday Watchlist
*****Editor’s note: Jake Huska is a college student working on his trading game. At SMB we believe traders should start working on their trading game early, just like pro athletes. Jake’s posts reflect a better journey to pro trader for the college student with a passion for trading.***** —- If you’re a short-term trader, you should be salivating with earnings … Read More
Mike Bellafiore at Phillip iFest 2013, Singapore
Mike Bellafiore recently was the keynote speaker at iFest in Asia. You can find slides of his trading presentation here. Below is a picture of this 800 person event at Marina Bay Sands Casino in Singapore. An international lecturer, Mr. Bellafiore has built trader training programs globally for hedge funds, prop trading desks, and retail traders, working with some of … Read More
Mike Bellafiore Goes to Singapore as a Phillip iFest Mentor
Well-renowned trader and author, Mike Bellafiore, will be in Singapore for one weekend only to share his trading methods at the Phillip Investment Festival (iFest) 2013. Bellafiore is the author of the “trading classic” One Good Trade, and co-founder of SMB Capital, a proprietary trading firm in New York City. Bellafiore is also the co-founder of SMBU, an educational company that … Read More
Muscle Memory and Patience II–Trading $AAPL
In my previous post on stock “muscle memory” I discussed the three types of MM. I want to revisit the topic and see how we used the same concept while tracking AAPL’s price action for the past few weeks. On June 12th AAPL traded below 435 after not breaching that level for several weeks. After a few days of consolidation … Read More
Divining Inflection Points– $SPY
From January to May 22nd I probably traded the SPY less then ten times in total. Today marked the fourth consecutive day I traded the market via the SPY. I trade whatever is In Play. And right now the market is In Play. The most useful price level in the past three trading days has been 157.50. Useful in that it … Read More
Revisiting #NewNormal and $SPX 1680
Now is a good time to look back at the #NewNormal and discuss possible trading patterns for US equities for the remainder of 2013. The #NewNormal was a description I came up with in late 2012 to describe the slow steady grind higher in US equities that was rarely interrupted by periods of higher volatility. This state of the market … Read More
Finding The Bounce– $SPY
On Thursday June 20th I wrote “Looking For The Bounce” where I discussed a long SPY trade that never materialized so I exited for a loss. Yesterday, the market setup for another bounce attempt and I took it. Many short term trading setups trigger after three trading days. After the market’s large sell offs on Wednesday and Thursday many short … Read More