Mike Bellafiore, Partner at SMB Capital, and author of One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading was featured in the recent issue of SFO Magazine. In his article, Old School Lessons For Mastering Today’s Markets, Bella discusses what it takes to become a great trader in today’s changing market. A must read for new traders! The … Read More
Ten Mistakes by BP a Trader Should Never Make
1. No Exit Plan. There was no exit plan for if the rig (RIG?) exploded. Before every trade we must decide where and how we will exit BEFORE entering the trade. 2. Live to Play Another Day. It is not definitive that BP is a viable company going forward even with 6.08 Billion in quarterly profits. 1) When will the … Read More
Free Trading Seminar In NYC
Trading Setups That Are Working In Today’s Market Please join us on May 15th at our training room in NYC for an interactive seminar on which trading setups are working best in today’s market. The partners of SMB will discuss in detail the setups that have been offering the greatest risk/reward for the past two months in US equity markets. … Read More
After Hours Trading Gameplan
Yesterday I went home mad about my trading. Couldn’t believe the market cracked so hard and the shorts were so difficult in the stocks I was in. I came home and ITMN opened after being halted. I opened my platform, didn’t even bother to open charts and just got cracking. 20 Minutes later I was net positive. Like Bella says … Read More
Priorities
I was psyched for an opportunistic Monday after Friday’s action in GS and the market. On our Sunday night SMB University show on StockTwits TV I went through all the levels in GS, JPM, MS, BAC, DB and the market momentum leaders. I read every blog and article on the GS/SEC civil suit. I mapped out a plan for new breaking … Read More
Trading versus Investing
This was gonna be a blog post on why I came in today with a long bias in RIMM. But there is so much chatter right now on StockTwits with respect to ABK that I thought I would throw in my two cents. Let me start with a few preliminaries before I get into the meat of the post. #1 … Read More
Don’t Let An “Idea” End Your Trading Career
In today’s AM Meeting I mentioned that AMZN has been unusually weak the past couple of days. If it got below 130.50 I thought there would be a lot of momentum longs who would panic and the stock would drop to 128. That trade never materialized. The first move in AMZN was up. The second move in AMZN was up. … Read More
Traders Ask: How Do I Work on My Stubbornness?
I received the following email from reader Brent: Dear Bella, I have followed SMB Capital since WSW on Mojo and have been following the blog for several months now. I am impressed by the quality of content that you guys release and it has helped my trading greatly. I am a remote trader for a prop firm and have been … Read More