Lately we have been posting some very simple Radar setups that can really step up your trading game. Simple, trend following plays that can be very high probability, good risk / reward plays. Today $OCR made a similar set up to the Spencer Special, however didn’t have as many checks as we would like to see. Consolidation wasn’t very clean, the … Read More
Free Options Webinar Today at 5pm EDT. SMB’s Options Tribe : $NDX Calender Spreads
Tuesday September 13, 2011 at 5:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time SMB’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members worldwide. Each week the community will meet online for the primary purpose of watching live presentations made by outstanding veteran options traders and experts in the world of … Read More
Free Options Webinar: SMB’s Options Tribe September 13, 2011 at 5pm EDT: $NDX Calender Spreads
Tuesday September 13, 2011 at 5:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time SMB’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members worldwide. Each week the community will meet online for the primary purpose of watching live presentations made by outstanding veteran options traders and experts in the world of … Read More
Checking back in with VRSN
In yesterday’s post I discussed a few core principles we teach at SMB and used VRSN as an illustration. This morning it was lighting up the SMB Radar again in multiple categories. In case you didn’t have alerts set on your trading platform at the prior day’s key levels the Radar almost forced you to pay attention again. If a … Read More
New SPY Inflection Point
I must be crazy writing a blog post as I begin my vacation in Nantucket Ma. But I have something I want to highlight that relates to a webinar I gave earlier this month. The topic of the webinar was multi-day inflection points. Identifying these levels and using them as the focal point for various trading plays. On Thursday August … Read More
No Vote, more uncertainty
Word just broke that there will be no vote on Speaker Boehner’s bill tonight. This will breed more uncertainty to the markets. This is not HardBall or Nightline so I will skip to our thoughts as a trader firstly. I will watch Asia to see how their markets react. So far they are down almost 1 percent as I write. … Read More
Night Time Reading
Here is some information to help you prepare for tomorrow. Courtesy of SMB Radar. @sspencer_smb
Good Teamwork. Now Time To Focus.
Bella and I had a short conversation after the Open. He mentioned that a bunch of traders got into ECL on the short side and had made some nice chops. My mentee Sammy mentioned the trade to me as well. He said one of the traders in his row called it out and he took the trade blindly with a … Read More