Mike Bellafiore, author of One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading, joins Tim Bourquin of TraderInterviews.com to discuss his experiences starting SMB Capital and watching other traders succeed and fail. Tim and Mike also talk about how to become a consistently profitable trader. Listen to the interview here. .
Overthinking Yourself to Underperformance
Before the open BHI was identified as one of our Top Five trading opportunities. Many of our traders focused on BHI on the open. Here’s why: a) BHI had earnings b) BHI gapped down c) BHI was below an important longer term technical level of 46 d) the buyers at 46 lost in the premarket I am sure some traders … Read More
A ? 4 the Trading Community- Specialize or Well-Rounded
Dr. Steenbarger helped SMB recognize one of the improvements we could make at our firm awhile ago. The partners and Senior Traders must be responsible for a great deal of teaching and mentoring. But if traders are not leveraging the talent of all firm members then that firm is not offering the best learning environment. Traders learn from other traders … Read More
Trading Quote of the Day – July 19, 2019
“There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.” Jesse Livermore
Trading Quote of the Day – July 16, 2010
“The markets are not random. I don’t care if the number of academicians who have argued the efficient market hypothesis would stretch to the moon and back if laid end to end; they are simply wrong. The markets are not random, because they are based on human behavior, and human behavior, especially mass behavior, is not random. It never has … Read More
Trading Thoughts & Afternoon Shenanigans
What an interesting session today. Came in short a healthy amount for what I usually take home overnight. The economic data this am at 8:30 made it a little uncomfortable to hold but I had my plan. Lifting and holding above 1100 on eminis I had to be flat, that was my line on the sand. Luckily there was a … Read More
Second Trading Quote of the Day – July 15, 2010
“Speculation, in its truest sense, calls for anticipation.” Richard D. Wyckoff
Trading Quote of the Day – July 15, 2010
“When you are in a losing streak, your ability to properly assimilate and analyze information starts to become distorted because of the impairment of the confidence factor, which is a by-product of a losing streak. You have to work very hard to restore that confidence, and cutting back trading helps achieve that goal.” Bill Lipschutz