In our recent survey we asked you for lesson ideas to include in SMBU Premium 2016. Many of your responses included topics related trading size, trading bigger, and questions like “how do I trade bigger?” Here’s the short answer: Identify your trading strengths Trade your best setups more often and with larger size as I wrote in The PlayBook Trade … Read More
A Lesson on Trading Strategies
In our SMBU Daily Video, Mike Bellafiore sits down with Maxim from Hamaha.net to discuss different trading strategies. In this video, you will learn: How identify stocks in play What types of news catalyst will put stocks in play What can make stocks trend intraday and for a swing trade We hope this video helps you improve your trading skills. … Read More
Lesson #2 on Trading Bigger
In our SMBU Daily Video, Mike Bellafiore sits down with Maxim from Hamaha.net to discuss tips on trading bigger. In this video, you will learn: How to identify your strengths as a trader Which trade setups to trade bigger and more often The process to incrementally increase your trading size We hope this video helps you improve your trading skills. – SMBU Team … Read More
Recognizing A Strong Stock
In our SMBU Daily Video, learn how short term traders describe trade setups on an intraday basis. In this video from Steve Spencer, you will learn: The thought process of an intraday trader How Steve looks for potential long/short trade setups How to gauge whether a stock is weak or strong We hope this video helps you improve your trading … Read More
30 trading habits in 30 days- a book of charts
Welcome back to our new series 30 trading habits in 30 days. This is not my idea. I co-opted it from a trader we trained from scratch to High Performing Trader. This is an excellent habit to build for your daily training as a trader. Build a book of best charts. Every time you make or spot a great setup, … Read More
Invest in your trading business
Invest in your trading business! One constant theme on our trading desk is encouraging traders to invest in themselves. One 500k-a-year trader on our desk didn’t want to spend $190 a month on an options platform that could make him an extra 50-100k a year. When we laid out these numbers he quickly realized this folly. Recently I encouraged 8 … Read More
Options Filters
In our SMBU Daily Video, learn how you can use filters to adjust your position sizing. In this video from Andrew Falde, you will learn: Using volatility based sizing How to get better consistency in your trading An example in a momentum based strategy We hope this video helps you improve your trading skills. – SMBU Team * no relevant positions
A lesson on trading bigger
Our firm made a large trade this month in a stock overbought. I was waiting and waiting and waiting for one of our senior traders to close his trade and offer congratulations. The trade kept working and working and working so it took him days to finally close out. The discussion afterwards proves constructive to those seeking to trade … Read More