SMB

hgreenblatt

SMB... isn't that the place people go to lose their money?? Are you a U. S. account or under different rules. What is all this data going to do for you? Also as noted by the\_humeister options trade during market hours. Maybe you want a backtester... Tasty has one that works by delta (they added some enhancements last week).

canws

Watched a strategy on SMB capital talking about selling over night calls and closing it the next day. Thanks for the info.

fre-ddo

SMB capital have some good vids, tastylive do too especially the older ones.

DCOperator

You need to spend more time watching YouTubes before you lose all your money and more. Check out SMB Capital on YT. SMB Capital is a real prop trading firm and not some fake trading guru. Odds are that IB won't enable options for you anyway because you don't have the experience to trade them. You can, of course lie about your experience and your financials, and risk a lifetime ban if they ask you to prove financials.

Woodsman8307

1. It's up 21% because revenue and earnings jumped in Q3 due to the soft launch of their initial AI functionality in Nov 2024. Mgmt revised up earnings guidance for FY 2025 (FYE 7/31) and it's trading at it's historical forward P/E multiple off that revised FY 2025 guidance; it hasn't priced in the additional revenue going forward from additional AI functionality, like AI automation agents, that will take a huge share of the $15B SMB bookkeeping and accounting market; bookkeepers are one of the first jobs to go with AI due to the rule-based and recurring nature of that job. 2. They are also implementing 10% price increases on Tues 7/1 along with the additional AI functionality. They can continue to push price due to their market share because it's actually a net savings to the customer as they can replace the cost of humans.

Woodsman8307

We shall see after they release revised FY 2026 guidance after FYE 7/31/25. It's trading at historical forward P/E levels based off FY 2025 guidance which was provided in May and was already 80% fully realized; Q4 is always their slowest quarter due to seasonality. It doesn't price in the amount of the $15B SMB bookkeeping and accounting market that Intuit will capture with AI as the market leader (80% market share); bookkeepers are one of the first job sectors that will completely be replaced by AI in the very near future. Let's compare notes in 6-12 months.

_hiddenscout

Some CLMB news: >**limb Channel Solutions**, a subsidiary of **Climb Global Solutions (NASDAQ: CLMB)**, has announced a new distribution partnership with **Egnyte**, a leader in secure content collaboration. The agreement enables Climb to distribute Egnyte's cloud-native platform across the United States. >The partnership follows Egnyte's recent enhancements to its Partner Program and new partner portal launch. The program focuses on three core priorities: profitability, enablement, and simplicity. Resellers will benefit from Egnyte's agile supply chain support, technical assistance, and competitive pricing to accelerate market penetration. > >The collaboration aims to provide partners and customers with a scalable platform suitable for both SMB and enterprise environments, emphasizing secure file sharing and real-time collaboration capabilities.

Visual-Froyo-2676

I like watching SMB capital and tasty trade particularly mike and his whiteboard does a good job of explaining with visuals and he even gives you suggestions what you can do if a trade goes against you.

Proud-Relation4719

Even the "legit" companies are getting in on this. SMB Capital is selling a $2000 "scalp radar" tool. So hard to tell what is real is this field vs. someone's scheme to get us to buy snake oil.

Konval

Good DD, but this is a bit of an oversaturated market. How does CISO plan to grow its business? Strategic partnership with one of the big boys? If I am SMB, how do I find out about CISO and what would compel me to choose them vs another similar company.

greenpride32

I suppose on SMB side sure, digital payments gave more market share. I've been using credit card 98%+ of the time since 25 years ago strictly for rewards points. I was thinking more of platforms such as PayPal, Venmo and Apple Pay to name a few, where it can be backed by cash. But given debt and saving habits (at least in the US), probably a good amount of that spend over those platforms is via card and not backed by cash transfer.

hv876

Longer DTE 28-35 DTE to allow better strike selection and balance risk to reward. And then close it early. SMB capital has a nice rule to follow by breaking DTE into quartiles. * quartile 1: close if 50% profit reached * quartile 2: close if 60% profit * quartile 3: close if 75% profit * quartile 4: close if 90% profit

TraderJoe57

Yes…Watch as many of Tom Sosnoff’s videos and SMB Capital’s videos on YouTube as possible. Then double a demo account twice or three times using the exact strategy you intend to trade live. Once you do that then go live with small size. Small size adds up quick if you are consistently profitable. Remember to always calculate your maximum loss before every position you put on. Your technical analysis is no match for Trump’s tweets and sooner or later in this economic and geopolitical environment, you are going to get bit. Prepare for that by keeping your size small and practicing rolling positions forward in time and or up/down in price. There is no reason to take a loss on a trade. I can’t remember the last time I lost on a credit spread and I trade every day for a living. And it’s a damn good living too. Slow down, master your craft then risk your hard earned capital. You can do this.

Intrepid_Length3249

The bear case is all around the lack of clear extension of the enhanced subsidies for ACA. What is being missed is - They don't need these extensions, they're plan has been ICHRA and the BBB (Big Beautiful Bill) has just given then a silly leg up by getting ICHRA into the mainstream. The company I work for (200 US based people, multi state) are setting up our ICHRA scheme right now. Oscar lead ICHRA management as they are built from the ground up to handle them efficiently - Their SG&A costs are mainly fixed. This means for every dollar of additional sales about 15 to 18% is going to the bottom line. That 1.2% net margin people are worried about is about to get smashed and they are guiding for 5% in 2027. They always underpromise and overdeliver so more likely 6% will be the outturn. Understanding fixed cost leverage appears to be a gene that many humans lack. - Their MLR is hovering at about 80% averaged over a few quarters which is the best you can have in ACA. I believe no cap applies to ICHRA. They know their pricing extremely well after being burned a few years ago and punished by the market. - Their +Oscar platform is the cherry on top. If they licence this out and they are trying to... then suddenly they have 40% EBITDA revenue on top of their insurance model and growing SAAS revenues attract silly multiples. My belief is the x5 volume spike a few days ago without any clear news is that something BIG was signed and will come out in a week or so. - Their CEO Mark Bertolini is the absolute 🐐 check out his interviews. - They have deep government connections. They don't just know which way the wind is blowing, to a certain extent they can make it blow the way they want. Their CEO is likely the person who got Ways and Means to add these simple ICHRA changes to allow it to thrive and hoover up the SMB market. - There is lots of chat about their cash pile. Ignore this. It's almost all regulatory required for their current number of members. What got me started was this youtube video https://youtu.be/ic70uj4qUDg?si=DozERthw8lzw1z_i It's private so does not have anywhere near the views it deserves and is quality analysis on what $OSCR are up to - Bear case is ACA gets gutted (very unlikely), ICHRA fails to take off (I already have seen crazy interest in it) or good old simple failed execution (not with the track record of their current board) I am frankly ready to back the proverbial truck into this stock once it clears the volume shelf at about 18 and tests the support a few times

Additional-One-3483

That's already included in the stocks. So for SMB not easy to do ODTE

sackattack54

Check out the SMB YouTube channel. I was watching lots of YouTube videos about day trading and swing trading, and it’s all kids with goofy haircuts and shit. When I found SMB I was like hell yeah this is the real deal

ChronBurgundy

Honestly, what helped me a lot was this guy called Trade Brigade. I started watching him every morning from 8am-9:30am. I like SMB Capital videos too, but I watch anyone. You just have to be able to tell the difference between the furus that are regurgitating a bunch of bullshit and trying to drag out the video for more monetization and the guys that are explaining the strategy in simple terms. There are tons of strategies I've never tried. I really just use ORB and trade off simple support/resistance. The biggest key is just managing risk and not spiraling. I had a lot of days where I was smashing my keyboard & flipping my chair across the room. I've been a competitive gamer since I was 12 yrs old and I'm 29 now so I think that played a big part. Every time I lost money it was like getting killed and so I took notes on what got me killed and anticipated it on the next round. I explained it like that to my friend, I felt like Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow lol. Just kept spawning back in and dodging the thing that killed me the day before, then getting hit with something new and learning from it. Most importantly - have fun! The stock market is a game and once you feel yourself getting tilted, log off. Also if you want to get a ton of real time reps for small capital try trading NQ or ES on a prop firm. I did Apex and paid $30 per account and got tons of reps in

iluvvivapuffs

SMB capital has a free course

DanGTG

Watch SMB Capitol on youtube to learn the ropes, very clear explanations. Also in NYC.

nik_hill

How long have you been with them? Do they also teach strategies live? I am also looking for a paid service, currently considering true trade group(70% retention rate) and SMB capital

hv876

SMB Capital offers free Options course, which while is an ad for taking their paid course, helps you really think about Options differently.

DCOperator

To build on what others have said; - protect the principal - covered calls are king - covered calls through earnings are mid, use risk reversal instead - SMB Capital is a great YouTube for options insights

nazbot

I switched our company over to Google Suite a few years back expecting it to be better. We were a SMB so it didn’t really matter which one we used. The admin tools were shockingly bad. I didn’t really get to play with the Office suite but from what little I saw it seemed better.

Necessary_Secret_562

Really dude? You just copy/pasted the entire press release without adding ANY actual DD or analysis? This is exactly the kind of low-effort pump post that makes these OTC subs useless. Let me save everyone some time: 1. This is just corporate jargon BS about "strategic realignment" and "leadership succession" with ZERO actual details. 2. There's no mention of revenue, profit, cash position, debt, or ANY financial metrics. 3. They don't even say what their actual products are or who their customers might be. 4. The CEO is stepping down but they haven't named replacements - huge red flag. 5. "Forthcoming strategic announcements" = "We have nothing concrete now but please keep buying our stock while we figure it out" This reads like every other failing OTC that's trying to buy time while they dilute shareholders. Not a single mention of share structure, outstanding shares, or how they plan to fund this magical growth. Compare this to what AITX just announced - specific product expansions (RADCam for SMB and enterprise), clear timelines (Q3 2025), and actual info about their existing inventory and manufacturing costs. That's what a real update looks like. I swear some of you would invest in anything with a flashy PR. At least do some basic research before posting this pump garbage.

Jerhed89

What? I think you mean it wil help companies with robust supply chains that have the capital cushion to make changes and weather the storm. Most companies that do not have that (I.e. nearly every small US small business owner) will have a very hard time; this will lead to massive consolidation, less choice for consumers, and any enterprise organization that serves the SMB market will be severely impacted. Couple this with automation that allows organizations to become more efficient with fewer people, I can’t see how this is good for America without federal and state intervention.

Few_Ad_7689

Block is building a launchpad, not a cliff. For Square alone: 1. POS market leader with 27% share and still growing. The competition is fragmented. Square is the Amazon of SMB payments. 2. Massive upside in retail POS adoption, expected to more than double by early 2030’s. Beyond Square, add in AI, Bitcoin mining, and a full-stack financial ecosystem with Cash App, and you’ve got a fintech rocket that’s been oversold. Accumulating here.

Sukomoto

I do not think rate cut in its own, and in isolation of other factors, will boost the economy, but sure it will make access to capital more attainable to SMB and corporate America alike, which should induce productivity

PyRosflam

Sadly I think your right. We're about to see at least a 2 wave or 3 wave crash. All the "Good"Earnings are just ghosts because of whats about to happen. Tomorrow morning Ports put out their monthly data, Its going to be a blood bath, -30% or more traffic. Its not down more as some high value cargo got through and teriffs are based on when the ship leaves not when it gets here. That means May data could be much much worse as Port Traffic will drop more. Then the rolling failures start, small businesses will just go under and already know this, larger ones will refuse teriff adjustments (like Albersons) resulting in empty shelfs even faster. Doc workers and truckers are going under right away as well. 2nd order effects then kick in, SMB bankrupcys hit the realestate and banking sectors like a ton of bricks. Lending will freeze up. The fed might step in but how is anyones guess. If they make loans cheap we get MORE inflation and Trump wins (but he doesn't as the 10 year T will go sky high from Chinease and Japanse selling) If rates go up, as is the norm for stagflation, were more stuck since we cant import anything and we cant get loans for new business locally. First order effects will happen at this point, market will crash again, Jobs lost, GDP goes down. 2nd order effects need about 3 months to really happen. To stop those we need a total policy shift including Teriffs and Immigration. Short verson, not happening till GOP feels real pain.

icebreakers0

seems like the best move to make for Walmart. Even with Tariffs, they could be the biggest account holders to some of their partner manufacturers. Walmart can ask these manufacturers to reduce prices to move goods in bulk. SMB's can't make these moves and will suffer once their inventory dries up. People will have nowhere to turn but to buy from Walmart.

redditsgonecorporate

“Peace Bridge duty-free shop goes into receivership amid plummeting traveller volumes” early sign of what’s to come. Huge drop in tourism and the spending that comes with it. Now imagine how this is hitting SMB on border towns.

Snoo23533

it'l come if the tariffs dont drop to something reasonable. My SMB appears fine on the outside but only bc I frontloaded inventory. I currently CANT restock a lot of my stuff.

SpicyCPU

Yep. Especially SMB and MM reps are going to get decimated. Enterprises will likely fare the storm better and maybe even benefit long term from reduced competition. Banking and finance sectors are booming right now.

SpaceViking85

SMB capitol is alright. They do assume you have a "small" account of like 50-100k, though. Look up ProjectFinance on YT, too

smurfymurphy420

SMB Capital on YouTube has very informative videos covering spreads. I would highly recommend actually learning from them.

alanwazoo

NYT gift article **If You Care About Your Savings, Pay Attention to Trump’s Attack on The Fed** [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/opinion/federal-reserve-powell-trump.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.Ak8.PUnY.uTg6Rb105SMB&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/opinion/federal-reserve-powell-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak8.PUnY.uTg6Rb105SMB&smid=url-share)

Hyjynx75

In any other country, when they are forced to take measures like imposing tariffs on a critical supply chain partner, the gov't would set up a fund and task a gov't organization with reaching out to SMB that might be impacted by the move so they can help those businesses find new sources for the things they need. This administration just ignores all that and tries to screw everybody equally. Nice of them to be equitable and inclusive in their ruining of ppl's lives.

smoconnor

How do we feel about SMB?

banggunim

SMB Capital on YouTube is really great content.

jrssrj6678

That’s not really the point I’m making though. Having a manufacturer for certain parts in China doesn’t make a business a one trick pony the same way having a certain part manufactured in Mexico, India or Vietnam doesn’t make a business a one trick pony. For a ton of products it makes no sense or is prohibitive to manufacture domestically(unless you can sell it for 10x the price because it has a Made In America sticker). If it makes no sense to manufacture it domestically then it’s going to be offshored. If a SMB is not moving a ton of material constantly it would make little sense to have multiple factories have dies and molds and jigs on hand as that makes it harder to pivot when you need to iterate on the product and it would leave money tied up in tooling that should be getting paid off by the order. If the goal is on-shoring manufacturing(It’s not) then at least spend the time to develop the infrastructure that is necessary to make that feasible. If the goal is to isolate China from the world market then you need to develop the infrastructure to make that actually feasible. If the goal is to generate revenue through tariffs then you need to make it not prohibitively expensive to import otherwise you won’t have imports to tariff and generate revenue. Maybe I’m wrong and this is all going according to plan but for now I think we’re just flying by the seat of our pants

MarcoIG1

That's the risk but I think everyone is underestimating how brutal 145% tariffs on Chinese imports will be for SMB. For example about 70% of raw ingredients used by US supplement manufacturers are imported from China. That's just one example but there are hundreds more and I don't think it can be sustained.

JasonDomber

You just pointed out that you *can* do something. I personally haven’t fucked with iron condors yet. I get it conceptually from the SMB Capital vids I’ve watched but feels too advanced for me to fuck with just yet. But, point is…you can still make money 🤷🏼‍♂️

war5515

YouTube SMB Capital credit spreads

war5515

From a YouTube U standpoint SMB capital does some great videos

abc_123_anyname

There will be 10,000+ SMB’s that go bankrupt for every luxury brand. For the record LVMH has 13 billion EUR cash on hand. Not saying luxury brands aren’t going to be in trouble, I’m saying watch for the canary in the coal mine - SMB will get hit first.

ComplexChef3586

Lee Lowell, SMB capital, and tasty trade. Learn from them before you put money in. You sound like you're looking to lose money almost. One of the worst enemies of young people is lack of patience. Try to have a 40 year outlook. You'll be a lot less inclined to jump into things, especially options where statistically 95% of new traders lose money. Rule number 1, DON'T LOSE MONEY. rule number 2, REMEMBER RULE NUMBER 1.

DC_cyber

https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/1-1-white-house-economic-council-director-kevin-120535003 Go to 7:07 he clearly said the supplier lowers the price. I'm an SMB that resells a product (not apples, but I'm in a supply chain) so it resonates.

JasonDomber

Here’s the thing - even the SMB Capital channel on YouTube - around the Japan carry trade incident last year - put out a video basically confirming what’s in this graph. When the VIX spikes, like up to 50, it’s a time to buy calls…. But, here’s the thing…the examples they used in that video were the 2008 mortgage collapse, COVID, the Japan carry trade, and one other incident (80s or 90s, I can’t remember)… In those cases, yes, the market recovered and I’m sure calls would’ve been super smart. Premiums are low, the market recovers, you get rich. Weeeeeeee!!! But, none of that takes into account that we have Mango Mussolini basically deliberately causing a depression right now. So, yeah…I’m also not sold on just following this graph. Not yet anyway…. Source - I made 10k in puts today - aka “Trust me bro.”

dailyhype

I've been working in ad sales for similar social media platforms like Reddit for the past four years - platforms that, like Reddit, try to challenge the dominance of Meta and Google. I also know some people working in ad tech sales at Reddit, and as you can see from my account age, I’m a Reddit fan myself. Please don’t get fooled by big brands running ads here. Most of those are brand awareness campaigns, which are capped in terms of investment and not scalable. Reddit and the platform I work for get just a tiny fraction of those branding budgets. The real money in digital ads comes from performance budgets - ads that are directly tied to conversion metrics. These budgets are scalable, meaning if an ad performs well and meets KPIs, advertisers will pour in more money. If not, they shut it off instantly. The problem? Reddit and similar platforms aren’t consistent performance drivers, so ad sales teams mostly focus on pitching premium brand-based ad products just to scrape some of that branding spend. Reddit ads have been around for a while, and I don’t see how they’re suddenly going to become a strong performance channel. The platform just isn’t built for click-based conversions the way Meta and Google are. They lack: - Strong user signals and intent data -> Meta and Google know exactly who you are, what you like, and what you’re likely to buy. Reddit? Not so much. - Advanced machine learning optimization -> Meta and Google constantly tweak ad delivery for maximum performance. Reddit is still playing catch-up. - A seamless ad-buying experience -> Meta’s ad manager is basically plug-and-play. Reddit’s is… not that. Sure, Reddit is improving its ad suite, but it won’t fix the core issue - it just doesn’t have the same data infrastructure or audience targeting capabilities to drive conversions at scale. So why do advertisers still spend here? Simple: brands want to diversify beyond Meta and Google. But let’s be real - Reddit will never compete at scale. Most advertisers care about incremental reach and conversions, meaning they want to hit new audiences, not just re-target the same users they already reach on Meta and Google. Reddit has high audience overlap with those platforms, but their sales teams will spin it as "incremental reach" to make it sound more valuable. If you want an example of a real challenger, look at TikTok. They: - Scaled their user base insanely fast. - Copied Meta’s ad manager so it was easy for advertisers to start spending. - Built an ad product suite that actually competes with Meta’s (and crushes Reddit in performance). Reddit, on the other hand, is too niche, lacks key data points, and doesn’t have a consistent performance ad product. If I had to bet on a platform, I’d watch The Trade Desk. Their programmatic offering (especially in CTV) is scalable and works for both branding and performance. If they figure out how to unlock SMB clients, they could become the next big player alongside Meta and Google.

JasonDomber

Follow SMB Capital channel on YT. But yeah…don’t make the mistakes I did at first. Basically buying weeklies way OTM since premiums are cheap, but when the stock doesn’t rocket that much in 1 week, I’d lose my money, try again, and lose more…. There are actual strategies you can implement the like iron condors, poor man’s covers, etc….

justheretocomment333

Long-term theyre fucked with the Netsuite product. Every SMB is pissed about the continuous fee increases for a product which hasn't really changed since 2016. Tons of startup ERPs in the space which will kill NS.

Bean_Boozled

SMB capital on youtube, if you're wondering about options trading. Don't waste/blow your money on options until you've been doing months of research and learning. Don't waste money on "classes" or "strategies", all of that information is on the internet for free.

Vegetable-Salad-007

Meta is a cash volcano!! 🌋Look at their earnings report and fundamentals, they print so much money they don’t even know what to do with it. They have a highly addictive service. They are one of the few companies that’s using AI to increase margins through ads. Agentic AI agents for SMB will be a hugh win with 3 billion, yes Billion Daily users. I would not bet against them long-term. Buy and hold.

Bean_Boozled

My thoughts are that if you're asking random strangers on the internet to pick options for you then you should stop playing with options and do a lot more research so you can find and understand your own plays. Look up SMB Capital, they're a good source for beginners to learn stuff from.

modder9

Summarize this to 12 words or less. Energy use: Corn is PoW which will use the energy as a small country. Some of the shitcoins mango tweeted mention PoS, but nobody cares about anything but corn. Transaction confirmation speed: was slow last I checked Transaction cost: was high when hype happens. Privacy: the rich don’t want you seeing their financials. Easy to leak/track down Boomers are dumb: explain to every SMB how btc works and let me know how that goes for ya.

Electricengineer

The only prop I know of is SMB capital one YouTube, and they offer classes and you can even interview if interested.

PheasantHumble

Any recommendations for YT? I’ve found Patrick Boyle and SMB Capital, although SMB never really gets into educational detail.

Maximum-Welcome-1696

Watch SMB Capital Trading You Tube Videos about trading iron condors. Tasty Live also has a lot of good You Tube Videos on options trading. Your amount of capital is too low probably for trading 0 DTE SPX Index options. Probably would need to stick with SPY Options. Nobody can trade TSLA Options. Too volatile. Try monthlies first on SPY Options SPY CLOSE 609.70 Implied Volatility 16.15% indicating minimum range expected is plus or minus 23.20 609.70 + 23.20 = 632.90 609.70 - 23.20 = 586.50 Sell 1 640 March 21 CALL Buy 1 650 March 21 CALL Sell 1 580 March 21 PUT Buy 1 570 March 21 PUT I hold until expiration Suppose you receive 0.35 for the Call Spread and you receive 0.72 for the PUT Spread. You would receive a credit of 1.07 up front for entering this Iron Condor. I always hold until expiration unless it moves against me 100%. So -1.07 is what you paid. I would exit trade if ask was -2.14. I would then enter another Iron condor based on SPY Implied Volatility at time of Exit in initial Iron condor. Start with 1 contract a week until you get hang of it. Build your equity back up slowly. Try to make 2% monthly on your options.

norman17130

I wouldn't watch any of the SMB videos. Yes they explain the mechanics of each trade, but they completely ignore what happens when the trade goes against you - Which is what you seems to have happened to you. There's a lot of complete you tube charlatans out there - including some woman southern flake beginning with A and some lunatic called H. I started options a few months ago and watched them all. IMHO the best one by far is "Options by Davis" or Rick Orford. My $$0.02

96919

Uninstall the app and take a break. Go on youtube and watch all the SMB capital videos. They walk you through every type of trade and every scenario. When you're comfortable with a handful of strategies, find more videos about those specific strategies to get more opinions on those strategies. Then pick only on of those strategies to become an expert on. Only jump back in when you've got a really good grasp of the concepts behind it. Then paper trade for a week or two to really develop what you would do in every situation. If the price skyrockets or tanks or stays the same, make sure you have a plan for everything so youre not caught off guard. When you're finally an expert, still ease yourself back in with 1 call/put strategy at a time for a couple weeks. Only resume normal trading once youre comfortable.

mindgamesweldon

I noticed in the “things to look at this week” video from SMB capital (a prop firm) last week they were looking to short the stuff that went up (like BBAI) so I think in general they like to take the money on the way up and then are looking for it to be over pumped and go down. :)

S-n-P500

You have now introduced a lot more than your initial question. See if I cover your points. Your initial question was what strike price to choose, I answered that… there’s many ways and reasons to pick them so it could be different for everyone depending on their goal. As a general rule for retail traders. A vertical allows you to enter a trade with a lower net cost while knowing max income potential and potential max loss at the time of entry. Bull Debit spread you pay, speculating the stock price will move to a price greater than the strike price + premium paid. Bull Credit spread you receive money, speculating the stock price won’t move to a price greater than the strike price + premium paid. Look on YouTube. SMB capital is a good resource explaining option and various strategies. The end of the day buying at one strike price and selling at another strike price reduces your cost of ownership and defines max profit and max loss. Good luck

S-n-P500

Tasty trade, and SMB capital produce a lot of YouTube videos, which are better than most

pencilcheck

SMB capital is awesome, go watch their free YouTube videos

wierdjokes

\>  AWS (AMZN), Azure (MSFT), and GCS (GOOG) If China's startup sphere goes heavy on AI, I would add BABA. They are actually a pretty decent cloud provider. And its easier to work in Chinese cloud when you are in China. That being said, I don't think anyone outside China looks at cloud providers and settle on Alibaba cloud. People who want to avoid these companies instead go with Hetzner, OVH, Leaseweb etc. So it really depends on what China's SMB tech companies do.

IntermittentFasted

Read “Trading in the Zone” by Mark Douglas , i can’t even count how many full time traders have referenced that book and how much it impacted their trading as a whole. For Interesting & in depth Videos i highly recommend Ray Dalio, he puts out amazing content on YouTube & breaks things down so intricately and with such great visuals a 5 year old could prob learn a lot of what he teaches. He’s an old billionaire who runs a hedge fund and interestingly he was one of the first & few big guys to support Retail traders during the AMC/GME Squeeze. SMB Capital is great for in-depth trading analysis. I would say their content is more for intermediate/advanced traders but you’ll be there in no time. You just dont want to focus on smaller things before you understand the fundamentals, like with anything. Outside of that just try to get better at reading the charts… Technical analysis & chart patterns, improve on spotting tops and bottoms/reversals and the difference between what strength and weakness look like in price action. This is the fun part. Once you master that it all comes together & really just comes down to risk management… I’ve traded all the markets and the stock market respects chart patterns the most. Forex and crypto is “sloppy” in comparison which makes it more difficult to be consistent bc the price action itself is not consistent. & in forex there’s no such thing as Retail pumping anything like in the stock market & crypto. It’s totally controlled by governments & institutions, the firms you trade with even take trades against you. Forex almost got completely banned in the US a couple years ago.

DoubleFamous5751

: ( [this book](https://books.google.com/books?id=p3aCzwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb) really helped me. He has lots of stuff on YT you can watch. It also takes a lot of time to get comfortable and confident with identifying good trades. Check out SMB Capital on YT as well. They are amazing traders and have a great training course.

abm2024

I am learning by watching SMB capital videos on you tube. Also trough IBKR Academy lessons. Enjoy. I used to go to casino. Not any more:)

eeel12388

Tasty trade, SMB and Google have many info about option. It is not gambling if you use it correctly. It is a way to trade with less capital and possible higher return.

Ok-Geologist5545

No problem, it’s called trade ideas. It links to my E*trade account. It’s a great platform, been using it for years. Day trading is tough, if you did wanna mess with it a decently sized monitor is best. I recommend reading / studying and paper trading or trading small to start. You can really wreck your portfolio realllllly fast. Check out the SMB Capital YT channel. 

Ok-Geologist5545

Search the SMB Capital YT channel. They actually know what they’re doing 

theinkdon

I like [this guy ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_BjFmbwbYA&ab_channel=SMBCapital)from SMB Capital: he's very professional, and not wild and gimmicky like many of the home-brew channels. That video is 1h 13m and should give you a good, basic understanding of what to do with options. From there I'd direct you to Adam's channel, [InTheMoney](https://www.youtube.com/@InTheMoneyAdam). He seems to have a passion for options, and I like his teaching style. You'll have to poke around his offerings to find what you're interested in. It's not a "course," though he has a ton of info. The [Chicago Board of Exchange](https://www.cboe.com/optionsinstitute/) has some good learning content. If you like books, pick one from Amazon based on its reviews. [This one](https://www.amazon.com/Options-Trading-Simplified-Beginners-Generational/dp/196126000X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3804TG6T2T1LO&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.25EYLDeNSf_7rjR_DA5LH7tUvdyK8tmV6ffl5SfE3J87ZQrsG-uNKieqRP6yzfPPqhEIQU5Imkm16Td5I4-DEUwuExGi0aWVc_RP6rXxzZrFN27ZSZL4Q6QteY1BCNswqKKHsHzJ8PqvqIg1tWG7plu-J4mA0vnukzm7tYtJHOEtdbHwyuWjwPQd-_ulIGyz3dxV7INbNOxiXbLVsiAOpuOU6w5k72hT2s78vmNTZA4.Vz_0oZY0thScNcZYEr7cJVxa0IY8S5pK47AhAQPcimc&dib_tag=se&keywords=options+for+beginners&qid=1734733078&sprefix=options+for+beginners%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1) with 4.6 stars 349 reviews seems as good as any, or check your library for one. Along with Adam's content and/or a book, I'd highly recommend you go to [OptionStrat.com](http://OptionStrat.com) (free) and play around with different option strategies. It really helps you to visualize the Profit & Loss charts and get a feel for how it changes when you change strikes and dates and whatnot. An invaluable tool that I still use almost every day. Options aren't hard to learn, they're just like anything new and will require some time to learn the terminology and concepts. If you have a paper-trading platform available (ThinkorSwim on Schwab has a great one), actually making the trades and seeing what happens is going to be your best education before jumping in with real money. Good luck!

Far-Lemon-6624

I could be an employee at AWS, or an ex-employee, or an acquaintance close to an employee at AWS. Plausible deniability on Reddit is beautiful. The rumors are true. They started canning middle management going into the holidays. The managers just woke up one day to find their AD accounts disappeared. We had an "all hands" later in the week. The RTO mandate is messy. Lots of cities have AWS employees but they're working in the "consulting" division aka enterprise/SMB. We only have a WeWork in our city, Edmonton. There aren't enough desks to go around. The WeWork office takes the generic badges so every 60 days our Amazon badges get disabled for inactivity which then gets escalated to leadership, who knows we can do fuck all about it cause it's not an Amazon office. We commute into WeWork to do the same shit we do at homes. Sit at a desk with a laptop talking to people in other cities on slack or attend internal meetings on Chime or Zoom or Teams calls. The issue is the WeWork layout sucks ass because it's an open floor concept with a huge cubie farm so what you end up with is people talking over each other. It's like a call center basically. In the bigger cities there are proper Amazon buildings but in the smaller cities we're shit out of luck. There are also lots of orphaned employees in smaller suburbs who DO have customers in the area they live in, but are forced to go into the office in one of the "hub" cities. So Amazon basically asking them to commute to the office in the hub city only to commute back out to the customer offices in the town they live in. Shitty deal imo. Management is full-blown delusional at this point. Our messaging to the customers is that "cloud is the future and AWS has the infrastructure to support it". But we walk into "zoom" meetings where customers ask us if we're so great why are we RTO'ing. There are no benefits whatsoever. Your boss is most likely in a different city altogether. Your specialist teams, service teams, basically anyone you need to do your "work" are all most likely in different cities. We come into the office to collaborate on Chime. AWS is fucked tbh. It may be a cash cow right now but they're losing enterprise customers hard to Microsoft. Microsoft built their Azure/O365 with the end-user in mind. The back end capabilities might not be as good but you look at something like PowerApps can relate to the lowly seretary who needs to automate simple day-to-day tasks. AWS S-team is all up in their asses about "genAI" and trying to sell their shitty Q chatbot when everyone already has CoPilot included with their O365 license, Their only play is infrastructure - something Azure is still catching up on. So that means, extending storage, running server VMs, and DR. But with the new Microsoft licensing restrictions, customers are paying more for windows server licensing to run stuff on AWS when they get Azure credits for free. Imo - AWS only has ISV and government left. Everyone else is pivoting to Azure. It can only remain a cash cow for so long.

Alone-Caterpillar-24

I don't trade stocks or penny stocks (well, not yet lol) but I've read some books and followed some guys. 1) how to day trade for a living (by Andrew Aziz) is pretty good and he streams daily on his channel Bear Bull traders 2) Ross Cameron is also good similar strategy with VWAPS, ema and support and resistance (basic imo) 3) SMB Capital is good as well. Most of these books and channels preach the same thing, stocks scanners, risk management & technical analysis. Also, establish rules that you won't break. Honorable mention is Triad Trading on YT. He also live stream his penny stock trades

Dangerous_Function54

0DTE SPX Iron Butterfly with 55 wings. Immediately set up BTC at $150 less. 2 contracts per day so $300 daily gain. I could ramp up but it's a decent daily trade and I like the lower capital risk of fewer contracts. Been working like a charm for the last two months with no losing trades. But it's coming, we all know that. I have a long list of DO NOT TRADE TODAY rules, as an Iron Butterfly loses when there is a **strong** trend day. So CPI, FOMC, and other days like this see me on the sidelines. I even take world events into account, basically bombing oil facilities and the Central Bank of China devaluing the currency. Nothing obscure. There are also a shitload of technical analysis that needs to be reviewed every morning before the trade is opened at 10:04 EST or I stand down for the day. VOLD. TICK, ADD, XLK, SPX reviews. Open by 10:10 at the latest....close usually in 60-90 minutes. Sometimes sooner. Had one trade last 11 minutes. Had one last until after lunch and by then I was a nervous wreck....hahaha. But I improved the pre-launch checklist considerably because of it. I shouldn't have opened the trade that day as the XLK was screaming trend day but I wasn't checking XLK daily back then. Now I do. Got lucky with a late reversal and got my 300 bucks. 5 minute chart - if it opens running in either direction and has no counter trend bars before trading time, I don't trade. I believe the success rate it due to the fact I only trade about 3 or 4 times a week because of the many DON'T TRADE rules. I also watch Dave Keller's daily market review. He keeps me straight on the technicals. Right now it takes 3 hours a day. This is a modification of the Jim Olsen 0DTE SPX Iron Butterfly trade (google it) enhanced because he does it everyday, including days when I know events can cause a large trend day. Right now I owe him a couple of beers for introducing me to this strategy. When SMB capital confirmed that one of their traders was using it too, I paper traded it for a while to make sure it worked as advertised. Good luck...but it ain't' about luck.

mintz41

Talk to anyone who actually works with these types of products at the Enterprise level and they will tell you that MDB isn't really fit for purpose. Genuine large organisations prefer more enterprise ready alternatives, and the market generally has changed since Mongo came to town. I work in sales and know a few guys who have worked there any they all said the same thing. Mongo is fine for mid market and SMB stuff, they just will never make a meaningful dent in large enterprises. For that reason alone I would never go anywhere near them.

iamwhiskerbiscuit

With SMB Capital, they make money by selling premium courses... Meaning they're not gonna teach you everything you need to know. You gotta pay extra for that. Additionally, they make money when you blow up your account. And if the majority of people who signed up to trade with SMB got payouts, they'd lose money. For them, you're a customer. And there is a real financial motive for teaching you garbage. With Real Day Trading, you're not a customer. You can't pay for his premium courses. He doesn't make money if you blow up your account and he doesn't get anything out teaching people, except maybe a couple thousand dollars a year. Which means nothing to him because he makes millions annually, and it's so not worth his time when he makes more money in ac day than he's made putting out over 1,000 hours of content. He's racked up millions in live trades with real time entries and exits posted on X. How many professional traders can say the same? Like maybe 10? If even.

DesignerBathroom5559

SMB capital on YouTube

chanmanjr

It's actually SMB Capital. That's my mistake. Link to the video here. https://youtu.be/i5JOd15b_w0?si=oaf70_YUKVSxqnGz I agree with you. As great as this strategy sounds, I am trying to find out what are some things that I need to look out for before I even try to attempt this strategy.

Polardipping_2023

SMB capital on youtube explain 0 dte SPX trade. I used to strictly trade 0 dte SPX for a while. I get too greedy. It was profitable though.

Sundance37

Looking at the comments, I remembered it was SMB Capital.

rusty_nick81

Mike and his white board. Options with Davis. And SMB capital. What is everyone else watching?

Ok-Geologist5545

Brian Shannon’s Using AVWAP and VWAP for maximum trading gains. Al Brooks is great for price action and Market Wizards is also fantastic. Check out SMB Capital on YT. They have a great channel and amazing program.

TypicalSelection

it’s pretty simple, the platform is not meant for SMB or even mid market clients. it is obviously tailored to big advertisers, the kind of advertisers for whom reddit would dedicate support. i am not saying it is good, it is a terrible platform. but it really doesn’t matter for big spenders.

Knasty_Knickers

[Legal Zoom](https://www.legalzoom.com/marketing/business-formation/llc?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=legalzoom%20start%20an%20llc&utm_content=663289797831&utm_campaign=Brand%20|%20SMB%20|%20Exact&utm_campaignID=964378701&utm_adgroupID=119287617591&utm_partner=googlesearch&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA0MG5BhD1ARIsAEcZtwSlxaKFOqSegUyX_kQtSvTsZddWFYmmJcV49IHVxgifoYe4C1eicA8aAuuLEALw_wcB)

AluminiumCaffeine

Solid GARP imo, last Q was solid, valuation is not too demanding and their SMB offerings seem to be well accepted. Reduced immigration to USA would be my one concern I suppose, but its probably to early to be worried about anything like that

FairTradition5631

"But Reddit's hardly making a profit, and they're an ancient company." Bruh Getting 1 b monthly users that love the platform, not to mention there's no competition, is the hard part. And Reddit has done that. Monetizing is easy. Reddit could have been profitable if they wanted to. They were being methodical. They are starting with the end in mind. The management is very competent, despite the claims here. Now they are going to print so much fucking money from ads. They just hired Mike Mike Romoff as Chief Revenue Officier at Reddit a month ago from Google, where he served as WP of US SMB sales and led the global channel sales team. This is cake work for him, [https://redditinc.com/blog/introducing-mike-romoff-as-reddits-chief-revenue-officer](https://redditinc.com/blog/introducing-mike-romoff-as-reddits-chief-revenue-officer)

Soossaaaa

$SNAP earnings sound good - nowhere near META but they're mentioning all the right things about SMB advertising, performance advertising changes, and now monetizing all tabs. Time to buy

valorhippo

“In Q3, we exceeded our expectations for revenue and non-GAAP operating income as we paired continued strength in insurance and SMB with increased operational efficiency,” said Tim Chen, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of NerdWallet. “At the same time, we continued to invest in our strategy of becoming a Trusted Financial Ecosystem with our acquisition of Next Door Lending, a mortgage brokerage. We believe this acquisition will allow us to offer shoppers more hands-on guidance and creates another opportunity for us to build deep and direct relationships with our consumers.” [https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241029035593/en/NerdWallet-Reports-Third-Quarter-2024-Results](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241029035593/en/NerdWallet-Reports-Third-Quarter-2024-Results)

andyouknowthismann

MC was built for SMB and will likely stay that way for the future as that's the cohort they serve best. Comparing pricing between MC and KVYO feels pointless. You get what you pay for.

andyouknowthismann

KVYO is starting to move into enterprise as indicated by a few recent earnings calls. Generally speaking, Salesforce is an absolute nightmare for e-commerce brands as it wasn't built for that. KVYO offers a built-in CDP and a robust database/analytics suite; if a brand can use it effectively (and a big perk to KVYO is that it is relatively easy to use), it's super powerful. Mailchimp doesn't offer that depth for personalization, automation, etc and may be stuck serving SMB forever. If KVYO continues to move into enterprise and can serve the same needs that Braze/Salesforce/Bloomreach does, there's massive upside..

MyopiaCapital

my whole life I dreamed of helping SMB companies improve efficiencies by selling them the next generation of AI powered B2B SaaS tools

zakabog

Ruckus feels like a toy compared to Cisco, support was useless the few times I dealt with them and I don't know a single customer that runs Cisco switches today that would feel comfortable switching to Ruckus on the backend. I guess if you focus on the SMB sector it's enough to throw in a couple access points and a switch, but when you're talking enterprise customers no one wants to run Ruckus.

JohnnyFive-0

I say this with all kindness and sincerity - please watch some YouTube videos and paper trade for at least 6mo before trading with real money. Even if it’s a small amount, you really should try to learn as much as you can before diving in. I know it’s tempting, but you’d be doing your future self a favor. SMB Capitol has a ton of good videos on YouTube. You can open a thinkorswim guest account for free too and test these scenarios so you know how they’ll turn out. Best of luck - I look forward to the days where you’re answering my questions here!!

CommercialOccasion72

I’m not affiliated in any way with these people but I’ve learned most of what I know from SMB Capital on YouTube. There is days worth of insight and teaching on there from 7 and 8 figure day traders. Some stuff about options too. You can learn almost everything you need to know from them and prevent a lot of mistakes that you would have to learn from on your own

cstittle2121

They would need to change the pass-through and capital gains taxes. Don’t see pass-through happening as that affects more SMB owners but capital gains should definitely happen. Don’t worry it won’t affect WSB because none of you make gains.

thehopeofcali

Shopify No threat to SMB e-commerce yet

KrishnaChick

My suggestion is to spend some of your own time learning about options before buying them, rather than expect others to spend their time explaining things to you when you haven't done the work. If you want to be successful you have to put in the work. I also suggest not buying anything else with real money until you know enough to ask intelligent questions. Watch some good Youtube videos (In the Money, SMB Capital, Real Life Trading, TastyTrade).

JohnnyFive-0

Check out the SMB Capitol videos on YouTube. They have a super detailed 90min video about the basics of options and options trading that should help you out a lot. They also have a lot of great content about how to stay more neutral in your positions so that it’s not just a gamble. Highly recommended.

Byaka23

The beauty of this spread is that it requires low capital but works in most cases - if TSLA goes up, if it stays the same, or if it moves down a little. I think you only lose if it moves down a lot. If you write cash secured puts you’ll end up freezing $26K until the trade is over. That’s the biggest difference. SMB are really good at what they do and this is one of the strategies they use a lot.

SlowDrippingFaucet

Everyone conveniently forgetting the entire SMB sector with their non-cloud, non-AI workloads like small POS systems and stuff, on VMware and Proxmox servers. Or commodity HPC clusters that aren't super-computer grade that rely on pure CPU horsepower to do non-GPU naccelerated heavy math and analytics. AI ain't the end-all be-all. I'm sure AMD has some share in that market, but Intel still dominates the rackmount server, for now. Intel will be fine.