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Our Training Program

SMB Training Program

Our training program consists of three parts: The SMB Foundation, SMB Trader Development, and SMB Advanced Training. You will develop the trading skills necessary to become a consistently profitable trader. Please browse the links on the left to learn more about our training program.

 

The SMB Foundation

Our training program helps you build the trading skills necessary to then become an elite trader. The SMB Foundation is an eight-week demanding, comprehensive, and thoughtful training program. You will develop valuable trading skills that will enable you to profit in any market and for your entire trading career. SMB teaches you a craft, the craft of trading.

 

The SMB Foundation uses the following tools:
(click links below to learn more about them)

Trading Topics and Skills include:
  •  The Fundamentals of Trading
    One Good Trade
  • How to find the Stocks in Play
  • Reading the Tape
  • Reading Charts
  • How to Review your Trading
  • Trade Execution
  • Risk Management
  • Psychology of Trading
  • SMB Foundation Trading Plays

We teach you the trading topics and skills above comprehensively. Written lectures introduce a topic and then are supplemented by audio and classroom lectures. Our trading videos fill in any gaps. Trading drills and quizzes ensure that you master these topics. Participation in SMB Tradecasts, where we review video of our trades, is our most effective teaching tool. Practicing on our trading simulator  (SMB Project X) accelerates your development. Finally, mentoring from a senior trader offers constant interaction with a successful trader. You will develop the necessary skills to become a consistently profitable trader.

The SMB Foundation offers 200 plus written lectures, 60 plus audio lectures, a library of trading videos, access to SMB Tradecasts, trading drills, quizzes, a trading simulator, and mentoring. But most importantly, we have identified the trading plays that are statistically most profitable for a new trader. The SMB Foundation arms you with the trading skills necessary to succeed.
 

SMB Trader Development

On Day 41 you will trade live. For the next four months you will trade and follow a detailed schedule designed so that you improve every day.  You will build your trading foundation from which you can then become an elite trader.  A senior trader will review your work daily. You will develop the habits of a consistently profitable trader. Visualization exercises, SMB Tradecasts, video review, lectures, a detailed trading journal, statistical analysis, and much more are employed so that your reach your trading potential.

SMB Advanced Training

After you have become a consistently profitable, we will teach you trading set ups (advanced technical plays) to take your trading to the next level. Advanced trading techniques are taught so that you continue improving.  There is no ultimate destination for a trader there is just the opportunity for perpetual learning.  

 

 

Our Training Program

1.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. Through smbtraining.com, SMB TRAINING offers the "Virtual Trading Floor", a community through which independent traders (subscribers), as well as T3 Trading Group, LLC traders, observe a virtual trading floor environment (as described below) for educational purposes. SMB TRAINING also offers web-based, interactive training courses on demand.

2.T3 Trading Group, LLC is a Registered SEC Broker-Dealer and Member of the CBOE Stock Exchange (CBSX) All Trading conducted by SMB Trading is done through T3 Trading Group, LLC.

3.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.

4.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.

5.SMB Training and SMB Capital Management, LLC are separate but affiliated companies.