May and June Bearish Butterfly Strategies – 06.19.12 from SMB on Vimeo. 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 veteran options traders and experts in the world … Read More
Gameplan review – June 18th, 2012
Steve reviews how these pre-market ideas played out today. DSW, BKS, UNG, FB, NFLX, NAV Game Plan Review June 18th Steven Spencer is the co-founder of SMB Capital and SMB Training and has traded professionally for over 15 years. His email is [email protected]. No relevant positions
One day on the street with a professional trader
In the article Book Takes a Look Inside Professional Day Traders, national columnist Joel Stein is spotted $100,000 to try his hand at professional intraday trading for one day. Matt Nadell, @tradecrushers, a guest blogger at SMBU Blog, in Chicago gives Joel a taste of the nerve-wrecking excitement that trading can offer while teaching him basics along the way. Highlights: … Read More
New AAPL weekly ‘fly and SPXPM update
This post is another in a series tracking the hypothetical performance of broken wing butterfly trades selected by Greg Loehr of Optionsbuzz.com. The hypothetical butterfly on the SPXPM is progressing nicely. You’ll recall that this was instituted as a “longer-term” trade compared to the weekly broken wing butterflies that I had been tracking on AAPL and SPX. So for now … Read More
A sad anecdote of a failed trader
I received this email from a trader this week: Hey Mike, We talked awhile ago, about how your book “One Good Trade” has helped me and my 5 friends on the trading desk at our prop trading firm($$$$ Capital). I have been trading for about 12 months total and about 6 months live. I have found that your website blogs … Read More
Expiration week and the SPXpm
This post is another in a series that we will be publishing over the next month , tracking the hypothetical performance of broken wing butterfly trades selected by Greg Loehr of Optionsbuzz.com. For those who haven’t heard of or traded the SPXpm, take a look at it. It’s an electronically traded SPX product that trades through expiration Friday afternoon and … Read More
Forex Radar price expectation
Take a peak of our forex radar price expectation video. USD/CAD currency pair has suffered by making the price very weak. Due to these conditions, it had formed break downs at previous lows making “believe” of more downtrends in the currency. But the unexpected is that a rebound comes right after the “fake” break down. SMB forex has recognized these … Read More
Follow Up to the AAPL Credit Spread
This post is another in a series that we will be publishing over the next month , tracking the hypothetical performance of broken wing butterfly trades selected by Greg Loehr of Optionsbuzz.com. Last week I introduced the idea of using a broken wing butterfly for AAPL, entered into for a 50-cent, as an alternative strategy to a regular put credit … Read More