Below is our newest installment of the 2014 edition of The PlayBook Checkup with Bella, author of One Good Trade and The PlayBook. During these sessions a trade archived by a new trader from our desk will be reviewed by Bella. Attendance is free for SMBU Tools subscribers, who can also ask questions during the event. See this review in power point of $TSLA Breakout … Read More
Capturing 20 Points in $TSLA (Power Point Edition)
Below is our fifth installment of the 2014 edition of The PlayBook Checkup with Bella, author of One Good Trade and The PlayBook. During these educational sessions a trade archived by a new trader from our desk will be reviewed by Bella… usually. For this learning event we did something different! A trader from the SMBU Trading Community, but not our desk, presented … Read More
What is a Growth Stock?
This week I wrote a post Study Trading not Markets ($TSLA) where I shared the power of studying trading patterns over stock fundamentals. After all I play the game of trading pro not economics professor or Uber-Confident Financial Media Entertainment Complex Guest. My job is to make excellent risk/reward decisions with my firm’s money to which for some trades longer term … Read More
SMB Trade of the Week: TSLA
Watch SMB Trade of the Week, a Momentum IPO Trade in TSLA
Traders Ask- Where Do I Buy? (Support Play- TSLA)
I received this email from a reader: Hi Mike, I caught your stocktwits segment on Sunday (I believe) covering the TSLA IPO. Now… as I’m watching it drip lower I’m wondering at what level if at all would GS or the underwriter support it? Where would you look to get interested in buying? 18 looks like the line of defense … Read More
How to Find a Hot IPO: TSLA
One of our new traders poked his head into my office yesterday and asked,”What do you think of TSLA?” I had read a few things about the IPO but nothing that led me to think it would be especially hot. The whole electric car thing is cool but I didn’t feel the hype (think huge margins and a ginormous upside … Read More