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Free Options Webinar: SMB’s Options Tribe: Today at 5pm EST: Options Trading...
Today at 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time SMB’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members worldwide. Each week...
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A Few Spins Of The Wheel
Last week we talked about the casino’s edge which in the trading world is called expectancy, but all that expectancy tells us is whether or not our trading strategy is likely to be profitable or...
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Yesterday’s Options Tribe Meeting: Selling $SPX Options
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Trading Lesson #1: Buying A Strong Stock At Prior Day’s Afternoon Support
New blog format: Short trading lessons with charts for illustration. Trading Lesson #1: Second Day Play–Buying A Strong Stock After It Pulls Back To Prior Afternoon’s Support Area INHX was on our radar...
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Free Options Webinar: SMB’s Options Tribe: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 5pm...
Tuesday December 6, 2011 at 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time SMB’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members...
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Find stocks “moving away from prices”
In a mentee’s review yesterday he made this interesting point: - I really could have done a better job of taking advantage of the last move into the close.. I was too focused on that SFLY that...
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Traders Ask–How do I stop losing money?
I get asked this question a lot. Here are my thoughts. There is not one thing to say that would make the difference. There are not a few things I could write that would make the difference. This...
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Do you fail as a trader or just learn it is not your passion?
Morning Bella, I’ll try to keep this brief because I know you’re extremely busy. I just finished reading “Talent is Overrated” by Geoff Colvin along with “Mindest” by Carol Dewck and was interested to...
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Shifting My Bias
I shorted BIG in the late morning today. It gapped down on its earnings release and then proceeded to consolidate below 36.70, which in my view is an important long term support area. My initial short...
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A Few Spins Of The Wheel Redux
We made a fundamental error in calculating the returns in our last article, and many thanks to one of our readers who was on his toes and caught it. Some of our calculations were based on dollars per...
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Understanding market structure
Understanding the market structure of the day impacts all of your intraday trades. Corey Rosenbloom has done some excellent work on this important trading concept. Dr. Steenbarger has written about...
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Traders Ask- Should I add or sell?
Happy Saturday Bella and Steve, I’m reviewing one of my old trading tapes and wanted to get your opinion on a trade I executed in TVIX back on 7.11.11. Let me setup the trade for you: Basic Sup and Res...
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Free Options Webinar: SMB’s Options Tribe: Today at 5pm EST: Weekly credit...
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The Risk of Closing a Position That is Working For You
I was watching DRI trade on the Open today. To say that the price action was “whippy” would be an understatement. It seemed to be touching every price and there was no way I could possibly control my...
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Yesterday’s Options Tribe Meeting: Credit spreads using a stock trading system
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SMB’s Options Tribe: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 5pm EST: A Multi-Month,...
Tuesday December 13, 2011 at 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time SMB’s Options Tribe is an online community of options traders dedicated to sharing successful options trading ideas with all of our members...
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When is a good time to trade
In previous videos, we talked about levels of support and trading areas. When specific trading areas are breached, we patiently wait for the price to develop to the next trading zone. During the...
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Lessons from an HFT conference
This week I presented for 90 minutes and sat on a panel discussion for an HFT conference. I thought I would report back with some running themes. 1) What is the next Brazil? 2) What markets are most...
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Try this to reduce your trading frustration
I received this comment in a review from a trainee: Really frustrating day…Over traded the junk out of MS and C and made hardly any money. MS and C : Was trying to fade them in the morning but they...
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Trading Lesson #2: Don’t Trade Cash Takeovers
Trading Lesson #2: Do not trade stocks that are purchased in an all cash transaction. There is very little intra-day movement. Here is the chart for BCSI on December 9th 2011. It spent almost the...
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