I get this question all the time and it is a good question. People these days don’t have the time to invest years in this business unless it proves to be financially rewarding along the way. There are so many educators and so much information available today, yet it doesn’t seem to change the well known failure rate. So what … Read More
Art Therapy for Your Trading
I received an awesome email teaching me about an interesting concept for our trading: art therapy. I thought I would share it with the trading community. Last time on your webinar you asked what is art therapy? It’s kind of like when a kid goes to a child psychologist and in order for the psychologist to figure out what’s going … Read More
[Recording] The Playbook: The Future of Prop Trading
If you missed this Webinar with Mike Bellafiore, author of the “trading classic” One Good Trade, on “The Future of Prop Trading: Introducing the Multi-Product, Multi-Market Discretionary Quant Trader”, you can watch the recording now. *No Relevant Positions
Time & Price
This afternoon I tweeted that price was insufficient to confirm a move and that you need time as well. What does this mean? As traders we attempt to capture a new trend in the market we are trading. One of the most commonly used signals for a new trend is a powerful change in price. I have heard many traders … Read More
Do You Pick Bottoms and Tops?
Good afternoon Mike, I read One Good Trade, and I pre-ordered The Playbook so I could get some additional insight into professional trading. I saw quite a few references to buying the support plays or selling the resistance plays, and I was wondering about the strategy, so my question is overall do you try to buy the low or sell … Read More
AM Meeting March 14th – $SRPT, $VMW, $LNKD, $BBRY, $NFLX, $GMCR, $MLNX
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Forex: The Professional Trader is the Prepared Trader
When you turn on your computer each morning and you look at your favorite forex pairs, can you tell me exactly what levels you are most interested in taking action on? Can you give me a good argument as to why you would be looking for longs or shorts at these particular prices? If you can’t answer these two questions … Read More
The Intraday Swing Entry
In October 2009 I began talking to our desk about “Intraday Swing Trading”. This discussion was preceded by about six months of mounting frustration from a large group of traders. Our desk at the time consisted largely of traders we trained in 2007-2008 a time of extreme volatility in the market that favored a very aggressive style of momentum trading. … Read More