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Weekend Thoughts
As I sit here cleaning my inbox listening to some good old Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz and John Coltrane I look around the room and find a few hard working shark tank traders ripping through charts. I know their hard work will pay off this week. I lov...
Party in AMZN
This market just cracks me up. It is taking me some time to figure out the new patterns but I am slowly getting there. I got a bit tossed around making a relative strength play in JPM on the open and boy did I get destroyed. Well played algos, well p...
Sunday Thoughts From the Shark Tank
Times are hard for active traders these days. The ridiculous growth of HFT algos with their noise is starting to weed out the unable to adjust, overly frustrated and under capitalized traders in the industry. Last week I heard on the squawk box that ...
The Shark Tank Risk Management System
Let’s start by talking about the shark tank. It all started with one of the traders – JP – calling himself a shark in some non-trading conversation. Unfortunately for him his mentee who sits next to him – RB – heard the...
Its Called Trading!
As part of our training process we ask our remote and in-house traders to tune into our training calls. I was trading AIG in the close and was leading the call. I received a couple of emails from some new trainees who were just confused by my style o...
Getting Rewarded for Doing the Wrong Stuff
We teach our traders how to trade while taking little risk in the marketplace. We teach them the fundamentals and then allow each trader to develop a trading style that suits their personality. Further, we give each trader the freedom to trade whatev...
Reading the Tape Syllabus
We have gotten some comments and emails from some fellow readers asking what is included in our Reading the Tape program so we prepared this syllabus. SMB Reading the Tape Syllabus DAY 1: The Basics The Basics 1. Two quick written lectures on The Le...
SMB Reading the Tape
SMB Training now proudly presents our Reading the Tape training program for new and developing traders. After two months of arduous work we have finally put together an intensive 2 day program available to you for 30 days on our training website. Rea...
Summer Crush Turned Long Term Relationship – AIG
The party continues in AIG. After the reverse split the stock has been heavily in play at least 75% of the trading days. Yesterday the stock was not as in play as it had been but still provided some good opportunities. That AIG is like that attractiv...
From Gman’s Mailbag
A couple of days ago I received this inquiry via email from DH, one of our blog readers. It is a very interesting question so I thought I would share with all of you. Below is DH’s email: “I read the SMB blog and watch the videos every ch...
The Party Contiues in AIG
I believe Bella said it best yesterday in his post “Don’t start your vacation before your vacation”. AIG was a party all day long. Talk about crazy opportunity on this hot summer day. I want to highlight a few trading levels from to...
AIG Shenanigans
AIG, our favorite momentum stock got back in play yesterday off the breakout at $14. I traded it okay yesterday though I didn’t make that much money off the initial point and change move after being long from 13.8. I actually made most of my mo...
SMB Reading the Tape
Lately we have been receiving many inquiries from our fellow readers wanting to learn more about tape reading. We are NOT ignoring your emails and comments in our blogs! Unfortunately tape reading is a complex and extended topic that cannot be covere...
HGSI – Reading The Order Flow
On Monday I was flipping through my list of earnings stocks trying to find what to trade on the open. While scanning through my overnight winners/losers I came across this stock. I noticed it was up $6 and change in premarket on some dopey news abou...
Tossed Around Frisbee Style
I spent some time this weekend preparing myself psychologically for earnings season. I wanted to make sure to increase my size on stocks that had earnings. I wanted to be ultra sensitive to unusual volume at given prices, levels of huge interest/str...
