In this video Steve offers two trading tips on how to improve your results. 1) The importance of being present throughout the trading day 2) Using tape reading to add to a position in a very low risk way Steven Spencer is the co-founder of SMB Capital and SMB University and has traded professionally for 16 years. His email is … Read More
ESRX Crescendo
Sorry for the delay on this post. A few had asked about the message I shared on StockTwits Tuesday morning regarding ESRX putting in a bottom. Tuesday morning ESRX was on the top of our list of In Play stocks. Was gapping down and set up for a nice short right on the Open. Our “best case” scenario for downside … Read More
Live From the Trading Floor – 10.17.12
Steve will be broadcasting every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11:15 am EDT and you will have the opportunity to chat with him through our new Stocktwits chat feature. Don’t miss it! In today’s show Steve Breaks down the big picture via the SPY (0-2) Talks earnings stocks IBM CREE Discusses why he traded FTNT long (6-7) Discusses 2nd Day … Read More
Live From The Trading Floor – 10.15.12
Steve will be broadcasting every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11:15 am EDT and you will have the opportunity to chat with him through our new Stocktwits chat feature. Don’t miss it! In todays show Steve Discusses AAPL’s recent price action and whether it is bottoming (1-4) Discusses LLY as a follow through trade (4-6) Discusses C as an earnings … Read More
“NAV Again?”
Yes. As long as a stock is offering excellent risk/reward setups over and over I will keep talking about it. And for those of you who don’t know me personally it is not in my nature to repeat myself. I prefer to explain a concept once and then move on to something else. But apparently two blog posts, 5 mentions … Read More
Trading Lesson: The Bear Trap–Ouch!
A large part of successful trading is understanding how others are positioned in a stock and using that information to your advantage. One of the most common triggers for opening a short position in day trading is a drop of multi-day support. The idea being that many longs will have stop orders below this level, which will lead to a … Read More
This New Trader is Improving
I should facetiously title this post “The glamorous life of a managing partner”. Yesterday Leo, who runs our active trader college program, and I drove eight hours back and forth to Bentley U, arrived back home at 1am, woke up at 5AM to scoot to the airport for a 6:50AM flight to Vegas. We had a blast at Bentley … Read More
Katz’s Corner: How Do I Pull the Trigger?
I sent this question from an SMB reader to Dr. Jonathan F. Katz, performance coach, at High Performance Associates. —– I’m sending this message as I am in need of help with regard to a specific issue that I’m currently experiencing. I have studied the market vigorously every day for the past two years. I’ve read and studied many books … Read More