Mike Bellafiore and Brett Steenbarger - Prop Trading: The Psychology Of Growing Your Trading Business
Today's guests are Mike Bellafiore and Brett Steenbarger. Mike is the Co-founder of SMB Capital, a proprietary trading firm in New York City, and SMB Training, its trader education division. He is also the author of the “trading classic” One Good Trade and The PlayBook. As an international lecturer, Mike has built trader trading programs globally for hedge funds, prop trading desks, and retail traders and personally coaches select elite traders outside his firm. Besides having his company’s trader training program highlighted in the TV documentary Wall Street Warriors, Mike has also appeared regularly on CNBC’s Fast Money, CNNMoney, Bloomberg, and Fox Business. Dr Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D is a Teaching Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, while working as a performance coach for a variety of portfolio management and trading firms. Over the years, Brett has written many classic trading books including The Psychology of Trading (Wiley, 2003), Enhancing Trader Performance (Wiley, 2006), The Daily Trading Coach (Wiley, 2009), Trading Psychology 2.0 (Wiley, 2015), and Radical Renewal (2019).