Hi Mike, I hope you are doing well. I am reaching out to you because I am struggling a bit, having kind of a rough month so far. After having brought my monthly p/l back to break-even on good momentum the day before yesterday, I had a ytd top 3 loss yesterday: 1.5% of my trading equity or ~23k €. … Read More
Weekend trading lessons from SMB: IPOs, Breakout Trades, RVOL, Earnings Season, and more
The weekend is a terrific time to work on your trading game. 1. Working on your IPO game is worth consideration, particularly in such a strong market. SONO was one of the better trades of the week on the long and short side. One developing trader sent me his Trade Management from his SONO IPO PlayBook. 2. One SMB YouTube … Read More
The weekend is a time for study and preparation for the next trading session
The weekend is a time for study and preparation for the next trading session. On our desk, one experienced trader, who went (naked) short into TWTR earningss, reviewed this trade with another veteran firm trader. This other trader expressed the same trade with options and thus limited his risk. The trader who was naked short made more, but recognized the … Read More
SMB trading lessons for the weekend
The weekend is a wonderful time to improve your trading. We hope some of the videos below give you some concrete ideas and trading setups to improve. SMB Goodness How to become a Successful Tader: Lecture at Indiana University How to use technical analysis more effectively with a trade setups from our prop desk The One Low Risk Setup Everyone … Read More
“Clip that!”: Maximizing your best trading
Thank you to Dr. Steenbarger for sharing this article on how and why the Warriors excel in the 3rd quarter. The coaches prepare video clips from the first half, during the first half, of the team playing at their best. Coaches instruct video staff to “Clip that” of best plays and prepare it to be watched at half-time by the … Read More
Do you train traders who do not make it?
A trading friend on twitter asked: and then followed up with: @MikeBellafiore Of course we have traders who do not make it with our trading desk and transition into a new job. One thing very important to our firm is to “love them on the way in” and “love them on the way out”. When someone is not successful on … Read More
Are there less opportunities in this market into the close for traders?
A reader asked: Hello Mike. I have been involved in trading for a number of years and follow your youtube channel with interest. A quick query when you have some time. Going back a few years, the main ‘focus’ for trading (mainly using the tape) was on the open and the first hour of trading. Then also the last hour … Read More