Look at the chart above. Say you shorted RIMM below 45 and got stopped out at 45.16, develop a reason for this loss and then continue reading. Ok great to have you back with us. Today during a teaching session Bad A$$ Mike shared a trade he made on the Open getting short RIMM below 45. Steve whispered in … Read More
What is Your Big Picture?
Every trader must see their big picture. At SMB we make trading decisions based upon three factors: Reading the Tape, Technical Analysis, and Intraday Fundamentals. We teach our traders to think of a big circle with each of these factors inside. How do you determine your big picture? Today during an informal discussion one of our new SMB Training traders, … Read More
My Book is Sold Out: A Social Media Tale
My book One Good Trade is sold out. This took three weeks. A rush reprint will be underway soon. Save a few exceptions, it is now only available on the Kindle. I was told, “This has never happened before with a trading book.” This is a social media tale. I considered hiring a PR firm to rep my book before … Read More
Traders Ask: How Do You Record Your Trading Screens?
Reader John asked: Mike, I just got done reading your book and I loved it. I thought it was the best trading book I have read. I have been a full time prop trader for 6yrs. and read a lot of books and found yours extremely valuable and enjoyable. Your book spoke directly to me as a very active prop … Read More
Shorting MDT
We make trading decisions based upon three factors: intraday fundamentals, Reading the Tape, Technical Analysis. I traded MDT today using all three to start two shorts. These are trades that if I made 1000 times I would profit. Intraday Fundamentals We trade stocks with fresh news. Today we had new news with MDT: Co issues downside guidance for FY11, sees … Read More
HPQ BIDU and some JAZZ
Well its slow out there. This AM there were only a few stocks with fresh news. JAZZ was one of them. HPQ and the proposal of them potentially buying PAR was another. So I traded both. As I write I am also short BIDU. Let me share my thinking. JAZZ From Briefing.com: Jazz Pharma shares trading 30% lower following Friday’s … Read More
First Team Wall Street: The Next Generation
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln An extensive FX training program is being created for a college investment club as I write. The creator is a junior in college. A bright young trader visited SMB from the Midwest for a tradecast during summer vacation. He … Read More
My CREE Trade
About two hours ago I tweeted: $CREE near 60 huge R level @biggercapital responded: would like to hear your what if scenarios RT @smbcapital: $CREE near 60 huge R level And then came @readerfinance: would like to hear your what if scenarios RT @smbcapital: $CREE near 60 huge R level: would like to hear your what… http://bit.ly/dodYtu At SMB we … Read More