Some traders/investors make the mistake of studying markets instead of trading. This can negatively affect your trading performance. More specifically, this certainly was the case with the recent down move in battleground stock TSLA, the growth stock. For those of us who have traded professionally for 15plus years it is hard to watch and read the nonsense about TSLA’s valuation. … Read More
What’s Working for You?
For those of you who don’t know, trading during the summer months can be tough on your patience and P&L. A sizable portion of market participants and those with the ability to move markets all go on vacation and enjoy themselves while the rest of us stare at a computer screen that looks like it is frozen in time. I … Read More
Andrew Keene visits SMB
Andrew Keene stopped by our trading office in NYC last week to talk with those in the SMB College Training Program. He was visiting before sitting as a guest on Bloomberg TV. Andrew has been a presenter with Seth Freudberg for the SMB Options Tribe in the past (see the video below). One of our trainees put together his thoughts … Read More
Do Not Fear the Bots
Computer trading has become the largest part of our market’s volume threatening the profitability of many discretionary traders. Many traders/investors fear the bots. We shouldn’t. We should embrace their underlying technology and use it to help us find more of our favorite trading patterns. And even turn quant. Adding support to my thesis above was a recent blog post at … Read More
Methodology For Any Market?
In case you don’t know, I am writing a book called “Unconventional Forex Trader” and I want to hear what you think as I write it. When I conduct webinars that feature examples based on our methodology for the trading community at SMB, I am often asked, “Does this work for stocks too?”. As long as the market you are … Read More
Trading AAPL Tomorrow?
If you would like to learn how to think like a professional trader pick up a copy of The Playbook today! Top 10 in Amazon Finance and from the author of One Good Trade the #1 Trading book in 2010. Here is my thought process going into tomorrow’s trading for AAPL: AAPL initial reaction was positive due to a combination of lowered … Read More
Forex Trading: How do You Stay on Track?
Before I get into the lesson I just want to mention that I now have a book deal and am in the process of writing a book about forex trading. I invite you to help me write a book that will offer a great deal of value by giving me feedback here. This is your chance to contribute. I work … Read More
Bad Luck Boeing?
On Friday the news hit of a fire on a Boeing 787. Yes, that same plane that BA was forced to take out of service because of lithium battery fires during flight. I don’t know about you but I prefer my flights without fires on board. BA tweaked and fixed the battery issue and the 787s were back in flight. … Read More