Identifying the 3 Best Trades in This Breaking News Opportunity
In this video, learn the 3 best trades in a breaking news opportunity with a space exploration stock, $SPCE. Two developing traders work together to share the best trading opportunities in a headline...
View ArticleFormer Intern, Now Firm Trader, Shares His Principles for Becoming a...
In this video, see a former intern, now a firm trader, share his principles for becoming a successful trader. Watch a firm trader break down what is important to become successful as a trader based on...
View ArticleHow Proprietary Traders Use Options
In today’s video, Mike Bellafiore introduces Seth Freudberg, SMB’s head options trader, to a team of aspiring traders who have recently joined the firm. In his chat with the team, Seth shares how...
View ArticleBacktesting for Trading Success
In this video, learn how a developing trader performed a backtest for a Triple Earnings Beat Gap Up to make his most profitable trade ever. Watch a developing trader share why and how he sized up in an...
View ArticleHow This Part-Time Trader Rebounded to Prop Firm Trader
In this video, learn how a former part-time retail trader, who blew up his trading account, rebounded to become a prop firm. A firm trader shares his turnaround from blowing up his retail trading...
View ArticleHow This Part-Time Trader Rebounded to Prop Firm Trader (part 2)
In this video, watch a former part-time retail trader, who blew up his trading account, but then rebounded to become a prop firm, present one of his favorite setups. A firm trader dissects in...
View ArticleHow Pro Traders Use Options
A top trader on SMB’s trading desk developed a strong directional conviction around AMZN and used his knowledge and experience to express this idea using weekly options, which had the effect of greatly...
View ArticleTHIS will get you fired on a trading desk
In this video, we discuss what will get you fired from a trading desk. View Video Transcript you work at a prop firm and you will meet with your floor manager your floor manager will go over your...
View ArticleThe right way to use technical analysis for momentum trading
In this video, learn the right way to use technical analysis for momentum trading. We teach a developing trader, with a trade example he took, how to use technical analysis to determine the buyers are...
View ArticleAdd value to grow your trading network
Yesterday a trader asked me to share his email address and suggest to some traders I know to reach out to him. I declined. I didn’t know this trader. I didn’t know if this trader would add value to...
View ArticleHow to Supercharge Returns on High Dividend Stocks (with options)
If you hold stocks that pay you dividends, then I’m sure you know how great passive income feels. But let’s face it… We’re in a terrible yield environment. Average returns on dividend paying stocks are...
View ArticleOne Day Trading Strategies Using Options Deltas
Most options strategies last weeks (if not months). But what if you’re a trader who doesn’t want to wait for that long for a trade to show results? Maybe long expiration dates stress you out. Or maybe...
View ArticleThe REAL reason why you’re still a struggling trader
Isn’t it interesting that despite all the information available online… Traders are still struggling with pulling consistent profits out of the markets? It doesn’t seem to make sense I know, but...
View ArticleHow to Profit More on a Profitable Trade
In this video, learn how to profit more on a profitable trade. A Senior Trader, Justin, from our desk teaches a developing trader, during an in-depth trade review, how to make more in his best trading...
View ArticleHe was making $12K a week (and then he realized this)
This might sound counterintuitive… But just because a trader is making large sums of money doesn’t necessarily mean you should copy what they’re doing. Why? Because whatever that trader is doing that...
View ArticleProp Firm Thinks About Trading Risk Differently to Grow Elite Traders
“You have to risk the same amount on each of your trades.” Maybe you’ve heard this before. This is the kind of advice you’d hear from the majority of online educators out there. And you know what… I...
View Article6 critical trading lessons from crazy $CAR
These are crazy times to trade and $CAR was crazy for even this market. This is what traders on our desk are saying about this market and this most recent $CAR trading opportunity. One elite trader...
View ArticleHow you can develop a trading hot streak
At SMB, our prop firm, we think a great deal about the best way to train new traders. Our core business is training new traders into consistently profitable and then elite traders. Since 2005, this...
View ArticleTrader Interview: Hitting The Million Dollar Milestone in Year2 – Here’s How
@MaxGanik sat down with @Bthestory87 (how do we get him a better Twitter handle?) in a wide-ranging interview about his young trading career. Max has had the most trading success by Year2 of anyone we...
View ArticleSimple exercise that’ll have a HUGE impact on your P&L
Have you ever said to yourself: “You know what, I’m gonna go ahead and pass on this setup… it’s not picture-perfect for me.” And then ten minutes later, you look back and you realize that you could’ve...
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