Hi Mike, I just wanted to take the time to say thank you. A friend of mine recommended your book ‘One Good Trade’ (so much so he had ordered it for me insisting I read it) and it has not only helped my trading in so many ways, but has also been very inspirational! If you don’t mind, a little … Read More
Enhancing Trader Performance: Easy Is Not Necessarily Better
*****David Blair, The Crosshairs Trader, is a blogger/trader/educator who does a wonderful job of sharing research on elite performance and how it relates to trading. Below is his latest post for the SMB trading community.***** — Editor’s Note “My Aunt lived to be 100 smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day since she was 18; therefore, smoking is not bad … Read More
Directional Options Strategies
Seth Freudberg, Director of SMB Options Training, lectured the SMB College Training class on the concept of using options as an alternative to equities. In this video he demonstrates how options can be used to capitalize on directional moves in stocks. Enjoy the video! Risk Disclaimer no relevant positions
Enhancing Trader Performance: Why Use Technical Analysis?
*****David Blair, The Crosshairs Trader, is a blogger/trader/educator who does a wonderful job of sharing research on elite performance and how it relates to trading. Below is his latest post for the SMB trading community.***** — Editor’s Note If you use some form of technical analysis (as I am assuming you do if you are reading this post via SMB) … Read More
Members Only Options Webinar: Frank Fahey, Optionvue Systems: Options Trader Emergency Preparedness
Your Option for a better trading life……together (SMBU Options Tribe) SMBU’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members worldwide. Each Tuesday, SMBU hosts an options webinar—the Options Tribe—during which veteran options traders and experts in the world of options trading share live presentations. Next week, Optionvue’s … Read More
Inspiring Journey: From Career Change to Becoming a Full-Time Trader
Hello Mike, Thank you for SMBU and your video’s. Very motivational and inspiring. Have you ever had older people, (40-50’s), enter the trading business? I’ve been in aerospace manufacturing biz for over 25 yrs now, its ok, but my passion is following equity markets and this passion has grown for a very long time. Any advice for someone such as … Read More
Are Great Traders Born or Made?
*****David Blair, The Crosshairs Trader, is a blogger/trader/educator who does a wonderful job of sharing research on elite performance and how it relates to trading. Below is his latest post for the SMB trading community.***** — Editor’s Note How you answer this question can help determine your eventual success. For instance, if you see your failures as stepping stones to … Read More
Lessons from a Trader Succeeding
In One Good Trade and The PlayBook pieces of the books discuss why and how some traders we trained became successful. Recently during an internal review of our traders, we identified one new trader with an exceptional equity curve (his earnings to losses were outsized). Dr. Steenbarger has suggested to us in the past to study in depth our successful … Read More