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
Trading After the Debt Ceiling is Raised (Video)
Yesterday during our After-Hours Review our desk discussed attacking the markets after the debt ceiling is raised. Our preparation started yesterday. Notice that we run through different strategies: 1) Buy buy buy instantly 2) Wait for the market to settle and start a trend 3) Short the news 4) Fade a quick up move As a trading partner it … Read More
The Single Most Valuable 15 Minutes of Trading Education (Video)
Mike, I had to send this email out right away after you posted your session on how you lost on $FB. For me, this was the single most valuable 15 minutes that I have spent on trading education. Why? For me, getting bigger, pressing, and holding are the biggest obstacles for me to get to the next level. As background, … Read More
Contemplating Insanity Into My Trading
I am one of the subscribers to the new SMB DNA program. I missed your mentoring session yesterday, but I just watched the recording and was wondering if you could answer one question for me. I just also wanted to say that I read both of your books not too long ago and thought they were the best books on … Read More
From Paper Trading to Live: Time to Turn the Lights On
I’ve been mostly daytrading for couple of years with not very impressive results. The last few months I decided only to paper trade and the results are pretty good. The problem is that I’ve done this before (trying to transition from successful paper to real trading) with disappointing outcome. That’s why I’m not that confident that this time it will … Read More
Be in Your Right Trading Culture
Hi Mike, I’ve just read your book, One Good Trade and have to say it’s left me more motivated than ever to continue improving my trading skills. Currently, I trade futures for a newer prop firm in Western US. Trading is what I’ve always wanted to do; I saved money working as a waiter to start trading options in my … Read More
Special Projects Returns
In The PlayBook I dedicate a chapter to the argument that pro traders should start early, even in college. One trader, Special Projects, and a review of his trade while interning at SMB, was highlighted as an example of starting early on your trading game. Trading is a skill, one that takes time to develop. You were not born a … Read More
We Want to Back Your Automated Trading Strategies
Hi Mike, I’ve been reading The PlayBook and saw a few mentions of SMB’s growth in the area of algorithmic trading. I am a programmer and have been working on some of my own trading algorithms. Right now I am building algorithms to work with (website redacted per request) but I’m finding some limitations with their platform (for example, it … Read More