A day in the life of a trader

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A day in the life of a trader
Mike Bellafiore
Author, One Good Trade and The PlayBook
Co-Founder SMB Capital, SMBU
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SMB TRAINING is NOT a Broker Dealer. SMB Training engages in trader education and training. SMB TRAINING offers a
number of products and services, both electronical (over the internet through smbtraining.com) and in person. SMB
TRAINING also offers web-based, interactive training courses on demand.
The seminars given by SMB TRAINING are for educational purposes only. This information neither is, nor should be
construed, as an offer, or a solicitation of an offer, to buy or sell securities. You shall be fully responsible for any
investment decision you make, and such decisions will be based solely on your evaluation of your financial
circumstances, investment objectives, risk tolerance, and liquidity needs.
This material is being provided to you for educational purposes only. No information presented constitutes a
recommendation by SMB TRAINING or its affiliates to buy, sell or hold any security, financial product or instrument
discussed therein or to engage in any specific investment strategy. The content neither is, nor should be construed as,
an offer, or a solicitation of an offer, to buy, sell, or hold any securities. You are fully responsible for any investment
decisions you make. Such decisions should be based solely on your evaluation of your financial circumstances. Such
decisions should be based solely on your evaluation of your financial circumstances, investment objectives, risk
tolerance and liquidity needs.
SMB Training and SMB Capital Management, LLC are separate but affiliated companies.
No relevant positions
Please note: Hypothetical computer simulated performance results are believed to be accurately presented. However, they are
not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness and are subject to change without any notice. Hypothetical or simulated
performance results have certain inherent limitations. Unlike an actual performance record, simulated results do not
represent actual trading. Since, also, the trades have not actually been executed; the results may have been under or
over compensated for the impact, if any, of certain market factors such as liquidity, slippage and commissions.
Simulated trading programs in general are also subject to the fact that they are designed with the benefit of hindsight.
No representation is being made that any portfolio will, or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those shown.
All investments and trades carry risks.”

Goals
• Share how a profesional trader spends the day
• Q and A
• Open SMB DNA application process only to
SMBU Premium members

Daily Goals

SMB Scanner

AM Trading Ideas Sheet

Spencer AM Meeting

Populate charts on 5 screens
• Narrow down: longs and shorts
• High Beta ideas
• Trend Trend News Catalyst Trades
• Opening Drive Scalp Trade on the Open
• SPY, CL_F, VXX, IWM
• Low Floats

Road Map
• Trend Trend News Catalyst
• Opening Drive Scalp
• Low Floats
• Alerts for gr8 longs and shorts

The Open
• Momentum trade
• Scalp
• Stocks do not trend in the first 45 minutes
• Opening Drive Play
• Trend Trend News Catalyst if news is
massive

Alerts
• What is a great short?
• What is a great long?
• Based on the price action intraday
• Make this a habit

Trade the close
• Don’t fight 3pm momentum
• SPY, UVXY, VXX
• imbalances
• After the close make notes of important
prices for tomorrow

11AM Trader Development

Deep Breathing

The PlayBook

Book of charts

Build filters for you best setups
• Bionic discretionary trader
• Filters for your favorite setups
• Build from your strengths
• Schedule time each week to build and tweak
your filters
• One of our top traders has built 30 that run daily

Automated trading
• The bionic discretionary quant trader
• Gr8py
• 3 models built by a new trader from last class
• Senior trader making 80k a month with models
• Diversify
• Schedule time to backtest your best strategies
• Maybe something doesn’t work that you think did
• Build them in teams
• Join the future!

Daily Gratitude Exercise

Your trading results are determined by
your habits
• Best practices turned into daily habits +
trading setups that make the most sense to
you + trading setups that leverage your
unique talent + setups turned into skill +
trading experience + growth mindset +
patience = PnL
• A day in the life of a trader should be focused
on doing all the things necessary to improve.

SMBU.com/DNA

Contact us
@mikebellafiore
mbellafiore@smbcap.com

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