Hi Mike, I met you last 2 weeks at Singapore Invest Fair. I am deeply impressed with your presentation and your New York traders trading ways. Personally, I am a prop house day scalp traders for Malaysia stock market for 8 years.my performance for the scalp trading is quite consistent and keep on growing. I have a matter need … Read More
Revealing Our Insights: What We Have Learned from Mentoring/Coaching Traders
Our firm in NYC has focused on training new traders to consistently profitable and then high performing trader over the past decade. Here is what we have learned mentoring and coaching traders: Develop a Growth Mindset- Shark is one of our most successful traders we have trained from new trader to consistently profitable trader and then high performing trader. Each … Read More
Taking that next step forward in your trading with sizing
I sit in a unique seat in the trading community. For the past decade, I have trained traders from new to consistently profitable or failed trader. As the author of two trading books, gratefully many reach out to me sharing their trading challenges and triumphs with the why and how. What I do in my writing is share my observations … Read More
How this trader improved
I was chatting in the hallway at our firm in NYC, with a developing trader who was verbally proud of his improvement on that day. He was really proud. I asked him what progress he had made and how. In detail, he offered his improvement. When he was done, I asked him to memorialize the improvement in an email to … Read More
Damn right we talkin about practice!
I had an informative phone chat with a counterpart of mine at a large international prop firm. They house thousands of traders globally. They, like us, back all of their traders. They, like us, have their own proprietary trading technology that only firm traders can use. They, like us, trade many different products. He, like me, trains all of the … Read More
In-depth Discussion: Mike Bellafiore and Ralph Acampora on Benzinga #PreMarket Prep
Mike Bellafiore was a guest on Benzinga #PreMarket Prep. Below you can listen to his interview and one with the godfather of technical analysis Ralph Acampora. Here is what you will learn from Mike during this interview: 1) The market is not fair. Get over it! 2) One of his favorite trades: Changing Fundamentals Trade 3) How prop traders are … Read More
Boost Your Trading Day: Top Financial Websites
What financial websites do you use to prepare for trading? @MikeBellafiore I asked our newest training classes in Austin and NYC to share what websites they use and why to prepare for each trading session. Then I aggregated their answers, unedited, into this post. This gives you an excellent guide of websites to help you prepare for each trading session. … Read More
Ask anything: how can I become more consistent as a trader?
I have been actively trading for 5 years. I have followed the market for 25 years.. I have tried trading covered calls, medium and high beta stocks (ex — AApl, SBUX ,CELG, TSLA. I have tried intraday trading options -no luck. It seems like every I “perceive” an opportunity I jump — just that I seem to be extremely inconsistent. … Read More