Happy Birthday to SMB Capital Co-Founder Steve Spencer @sspencer_smb It is truly amazing what you have helped to build at SMB. Your AM meetings are a must-watch for developing traders, with your clear buy and sell technical levels. Your wisdom on the state of markets has been invaluable to many traders worldwide since 2005. And you remain the $TSLA GOAT.

Guests visiting for Jeff Holden's Trader Development SMB Inside Access meeting today at 11AM. Jeff shared the importance of adding new strategies to your PlayBook and how our traders do @smbcapital

🚨 Desk Alert: Today’s PlayBook Review — DOCS Short Squeeze 🚨 If you want to build a seven-figure trading business, you don’t do it by blindly buying dips or taking random punts on whatever is popping on social media. You do it by finding asymmetric institutional imbalances, sizing up when the math justifies it, and executing with unyielding discipline. Today, Brian F., during SMB Inside Access, is stepping into the hot seat to deconstruct a monster momentum setup: The DOCS Short Squeeze from August 7, 2026. DOCS sat at the exact crossroads of beaten-down healthcare software and an AI narrative shift. After earnings, it didn't just gap—it surged over 200% premarket, printing a staggering 1,660% RVOL and squeezing through a heavy 20% short interest backdrop. Brian caught pieces of this move for 47% of a daily stop, but what makes this PlayBook exceptional is his brutal self-honesty about the trade he didn't fully maximize. What You’ll Learn Today: - Anatomy of a Structural Short Squeeze: Why price-insensitive buying must eventually exhaust, and how to spot the structural turn when a stock is trading 15 ATRs above its prior close. - The "Shark Rule" & Intraday Anchors: Indicators like RSI (which tagged 90+ on DOCS) can stay overbought for hours during institutional mania. Learn why you never short into the frontside until price confirms a failure below the 1-minute 21 EMA and Anchored VWAP. - The "A+ Sizing" Lesson You Can’t Afford to Miss: Brian banked a solid green day, but his review shows how missing the primary A+ blowoff entry cost him an extra 1.83 daily stops (~5x his realized P&L). We’ll discuss how to eliminate hesitation so you don't trade A+ setups with B- piker size. - Level 2 & The Tape Before the Open: How to read the premarket book when speed accelerates from 200k shares over three hours to 15k shares per minute right into the 7:16 AM blowoff top. - Next-Gen Desk Tech: Brian breaks down his automation stack—using Claude Code to build custom Python scanners, running strategies through QuantConnect, and piping real-time execution alerts straight into Discord. None of us are born with an innate ability to read a tape or short a blowoff top. You build edge by diligently reviewing real trades, finding where you left money on the table, and improving for the next similar trade. Come support Brian, learn a trade in detail, bring your questions, and let’s see what grade he earns from me. 📍 Where: 🗓️ When: Wednesday, 1:30 PM EST One Good Trade, Bella

New collaboration with the @chatwithtraders podcast 🎙️ Jeff breaks down how profitable traders are built—from edge and consistency to risk allocation and knowing when to swing big. Watch:

Before fading a stock, @TheOneLanceB looks for 10 key variables to line up. In this video, he breaks down the framework he uses to spot high-probability reversal setups—and avoid stepping in too early.

Trading isn’t one skill. It’s three: Idea generation Execution Performance psychology And your weakest one is probably putting a ceiling on everything else. Which one is holding your trading back?

Most traders look for the strongest stocks on green days. The better opportunity may be finding the stocks that refuse to go down when everything else is getting crushed. Here’s how to spot hidden relative strength before the breakout becomes obvious. via @YouTube