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Chat With Traders

022: Mike Bellafiore – How to be a Better Trader Tomorrow, with the Co-Founder of SMB Capital

Chat With Traders

Kevin Avery

Investing, Education, Business

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2015

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week I have great pleasure in saying, my guest on the show is Mike Bellafiore. Mike is the co-founder of SMB Capital, a proprietary trading firm in New York City, as well as SMB University which is the arm for trader education. He’s also the author of two very popular trading books ‘One Good Trade’ and ‘The Playbook’. Additionally, Mike is a regular contributor to Yahoo Finance, and often appears on CNBC’s Fast Money, CNN Money, Bloomberg, and Fox Business. But even with all of this going on Mike is still a very active, very successful trader. During our interview, Mike delivers some great insight about traders often confusing psychology for a lack of edge, and an overview for one of his favorite setups which has been labeled ‘The Money Trade’. Plus, he shares the development program new traders go through when joining SMB Capital, and a few top-level pointers on how to achieve a sustainable trading style. And I just want to point out this interview was recorded on the 20th of May, only reason I say this is because Mike mentions a few market events during this interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Okay, I'm back for episode 22.

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Hope you've all been having an awesome week,

1:15.4

and as always, thanks a lot for tuning in.

1:18.2

This week, I have great pleasure and sane.

1:20.4

My guest on the show is Mike Balfura.

1:23.6

Mike is the co-founder of SMB Capital,

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