AM Meeting March 14th – $SRPT, $VMW, $LNKD, $BBRY, $NFLX, $GMCR, $MLNX
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View ArticleHow to Prevent Back Pain as a Trader
Hello Mike, What is your advice regarding your back health during work? Doing so many screen time requires a lot of sitting, what is your experience and your partners in preventing back issues to have...
View ArticleDo You Pick Bottoms and Tops?
Good afternoon Mike, I read One Good Trade, and I pre-ordered The Playbook so I could get some additional insight into professional trading. I saw quite a few references to buying the support plays or...
View Article[Free Webinar] The Playbook: The Future of Prop Trading
Please join Mike Bellafiore, author of the “trading classic” One Good Trade, on Thursday, March 21st at 4:15PM EST for the free Webinar series, The PlayBook. This week, Mike will be discussing “The...
View ArticleRecording: John Locke: A Piece of the Rock
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 the community will meet online for the...
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I Am A Simpleton
AM Meeting Synopsis: FDX is gapping lower on reduced guidance. Looks like it is going to open around 82.50, which is longer term support. Look to trade short below that level but if supports there look...
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Time & Price
This afternoon I tweeted that price was insufficient to confirm a move and that you need time as well. What does this mean? As traders we attempt to capture a new trend in the market we are trading....
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Crackberry Is Back!
My best stock in 2007 was RIMM. It had an incredible run trading up over 400% as AAPL made the world believe that smartphones were going to become a mainstream consumer product. The massive move in...
View ArticleHow happy should you be?
Should we seek to be happy all-the-time as a trader? No, says the research. Eric Barker, at his Barking Up the Wrong Tree blog, asks a question: “Should we try to be happy all the time?” It’s a good...
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What do you do when your strategies stop working?
Hello Mike, I have an interesting question for you. Its about the life cycle of a trade set up. I've realized that like businesses trading setups are also cyclical. There will be periods where the...
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Is There Power in Negative Thinking?
Is it productive to think negatively as a trader? Bobby Knight, National Collegiate Hall of Fame coach, thinks so. Coach Bobby Knight says that when he first started coaching one of the worst things...
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What is Your Mission Statement?
I had the privilege to visit a prestigious US hedge fund this week. I just cannot shake this one image. We, 4 of us from SMB, arrive from NYC in Greenwich in my family SUV. You pass the private...
View ArticleSpencer Trade Review–2nd Day Plays $FDX $ORCL $BIIB
In this video Steve discusses stocks with strong catalysts that can lead to high reward low risk second day plays. Stocks covered in the video include FDX, ORCL, BIIB and PCYC. Steven Spencer is the...
View ArticleFour Ways To Get Your Trading Ready For the Summer
In most parts of the US and Europe, this winter has been positively arctic. Record snowfall, freezing temperatures and howling wind. It can be a downer, even for the hardiest of souls. Even then, most...
View ArticleAre You a Pro or Piker?
There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. I spent most of Easter immensely enjoying The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. For traders there is a...
View ArticleThe Entitled Trader
Peter Shankman, founder of HARO, wrote an interesting post today on the poison of entitlement. There is nothing worse than entitlement. It reeks of caustic, old-way-of-doing-things attitude. It screams...
View ArticleThe Playbook Webinar Series – Are You a Professional Trader or a Piker?
Please join Mike Bellafiore, author of the “trading classic” One Good Trade, on Thursday, April 4th at 4:15PM EST for the free Webinar Series, The PlayBook. This week, Mike will be discussing the...
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Why EBAY was a Buy
Today in our SMB Real-Time I chatted that I liked the EBAY setup. It had formed an intraday bull flag. I started asking traders around me if they were in it, which is my way of hinting perhaps they...
View ArticleFree Options Webinar: Randall Liss: Building Options Trades Around a...
Tuesday April 9, 2013 at 5pm EST 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 the...
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