Excerpts by Flurin Coretti from One Good Trade. ❧Trading is about skill development and discipline. Unfortunately, too many people think trading is just about making predictions, loading up, and being “the man” by holding stocks. ❧Being a consistently profitable trader is about doing the thousand little things every day—like proper preparation—that impact your P/L. ❧A great trader is an elite … Read More
From Good to Great: Using the Principles of Elite Performance to Grow Your P&L
Thursday June 13, 2011 The Traders Expo is on its way to Dallas, June 15 – 18. Mike Bellafiore, SMB co-founder and author of One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietrary Trading, will be attending and speaking on the following topic:
Katz’s Corner: Coping with Uncertainty
A recent article from Trader Psyches discusses the challenges traders often face when confronted with the market’s constant uncertainty and ambiguity. Dr. Jonathan F. Katz, performance coach at High Performance Associates, provides his response to the article: “The ambiguity of uncertainty”…..one of the great challenges of life…especially for traders and individuals working in high performance outcome professions like sports … Read More
Man v Machine: CTXS Opening Trading
The other day I mentioned on my Twitter account (@sspencer_smb) that I would begin to blog about my daily interaction with HFTs in the US equities markets. I have been actively trading stocks with heavy HFT activity since at least 2003. In 2003 I traded AAPL on a regular basis and it was already flooded with dozens of HFT programs, … Read More
Social Media IPOs: The impact of Linkedin and what’s next
Thursday June 9, 2011 Join Mike Bellafiore, Leigh Drogen, Josh Brown, along with other financial experts, in an open roundtable discussion about Social Media IPOs and what that means for the upcoming 18 months. Topics Include -Are we in a bubble driven once again by technology? -Is Linkedin worth the valuation? -Who’s next and what can we expect? Date: Thursday … Read More
Options Tribe – June 14, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:00 pm 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 options trading. This week … Read More
SMB Radar Update for June 2, 2011
These are today’s top stocks on the In Play column on the SMB Radar. This is the most important function of the scanner. The Radar uses a number of proprietary algorithms on a prescreened universe of stocks and processes every tick in search of finding stocks that are In Play. These stocks have unusually high order flow that indicates heavy … Read More
Radar Alert: Price Spike in JNPR
This is a trade I made today in JNPR. At 1:14 and 1:15pm the Price Spike Alert went off for JNPR on the Radar. At this point I was involved in a few other names so couldn’t follow it too closely, however once the extreme Price Spike (they are ranked) went off, I knew I had to focus on it. … Read More