--- product_id: 72179142 title: "The Playbook: An Inside Look at How to Think Like a Professional Trader" price: "€ 16.76" currency: EUR in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/72179142-the-playbook-an-inside-look-at-how-to-think-like store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # The Playbook: An Inside Look at How to Think Like a Professional Trader **Price:** € 16.76 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Playbook: An Inside Look at How to Think Like a Professional Trader - **How much does it cost?** € 16.76 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/72179142-the-playbook-an-inside-look-at-how-to-think-like) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Want to become a truly great trader &; either for yourself or for a proprietary trading firm? This book will help you get there. This unique approach is the closest thing to signing up for a &;trader boot camp&; yourself! You&;ll learn by watching new traders walk through actual trades, explain what they&;ve tried to do, and try to survive brutally tough expert critiques. One trade at a time, The Playbook reveals how professional traders must think in order to succeed &;under fire,&; how they assess their own performance, and how they work relentlessly to improve. Using concrete, actionable setups drawn from his extensive trading and training experience, Bellafiore walks through an extraordinary array of trades, showing readers how to maximize profits and avoid disastrous hidden pitfalls. He covers support plays, bull-and-bear flags, opening drives, important intraday levels, bounce and fade trades, pullbacks, scalps, technical opportunities, consolidation, relative strength, market trades, and more. He also presents indispensable insights on psychology and trader development, based on his work with hundreds of traders on a major commodity exchange and an elite prop firm&;s trading desk. Packed with color, personality, and realism, this is an exciting guide to real-world trading. Review: The Book I've Been Waiting For - I read a lot of books about trading/investing. In fact, I came to a point where I thought I had gotten through all of the quality books out there and began to scrape the bottom of the barrel with many of these low-priced DIY Kindle Books (I'm not denigrating self-publishing as a whole, but you definitely get some fluff put together just to make a few bucks). As I've traded more and more over the past few years and read all of these books, my timeframe has decreased to the point where I'm now holding positions usually 1-3 days with the occasional intraday trade. Surprisingly though, I've noticed there really is a dearth of quality books on intraday trading out there, which is why I was so excited to see Mike Bellafiore put out The PlayBook since I enjoyed One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading (Wiley Trading) so much. While OGT focused more on proprietary trading as a whole, The PlayBook gets more into the nuts and bolts of trading, detailing trade set-ups and trade management, with a heavy emphasis on trade review and structure. The goal appears to be to help short-term traders develop their own set of plays, just like a football or basketball team uses, to focus only on those trades that are most comfortable and rewarding to the trader. Essentially, it reinforces the old maxim of "do more of what works and less of what doesn't." This book will help teach readers exactly what it says in its title: how to think like a professional trader. Its purpose is not to give you all the trade set-ups that will make you successful, so please do not buy the book with the intention of learning some secret technical pattern or indicator that will make you rich. While it does give several examples of trades and trade set-ups, it focuses more on the work involved and the mindset needed to succeed. It is up to each individual to develop a system that works for him or her, and the author even says that trying to copy some guru or a consistently profitable trader is not the path to follow. Overall, I think it's a good book on trading and one I'll likely read again. PROS: 1. Written in an easy-to-follow style by an author who has succeeded in trading (it sounds like he doesn't trade as much as he used to, but that's understandable given he's running a business). 2. Gives a realistic look at how difficult trading professionally is and the work involved. Many books make it sound like everyone should just quit their jobs and trade for a living. 3. Discusses the ins and outs of trading more than One Good Trade did, while also providing templates for trade setups and reviews. CONS: 1. While I didn't mind it, I know some people had issues with One Good Trade being too anecdotal and there's definitely many stories and responses to email questions in The PlayBook. This is not a textbook, but if these informal stories and examples bother you then you'll probably have a problem with this book. 2. The price. Once again, I didn't mind paying ~$30 for the book since I think I got a lot out of it, but in this day and age of <$10 Kindle Books, many people expect a full trading system with anything more than $20. This book is not a trading system or a full course about intraday trading. Go in with the right expectations. Review: The Playbook - An Essential Resource! - Great book, great author! You cannot be a serious trader without this book! It has already helped my trading game! SMB Capital has a YouTube channel as well. Check out all they have to offer. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,898,019 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #300 in Investing (Books) #1,004 in Business Investments | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 644 Reviews | ## Images ![The Playbook: An Inside Look at How to Think Like a Professional Trader - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51qFNXaLRwL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Book I've Been Waiting For *by A***A on July 24, 2013* I read a lot of books about trading/investing. In fact, I came to a point where I thought I had gotten through all of the quality books out there and began to scrape the bottom of the barrel with many of these low-priced DIY Kindle Books (I'm not denigrating self-publishing as a whole, but you definitely get some fluff put together just to make a few bucks). As I've traded more and more over the past few years and read all of these books, my timeframe has decreased to the point where I'm now holding positions usually 1-3 days with the occasional intraday trade. Surprisingly though, I've noticed there really is a dearth of quality books on intraday trading out there, which is why I was so excited to see Mike Bellafiore put out The PlayBook since I enjoyed One Good Trade: Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading (Wiley Trading) so much. While OGT focused more on proprietary trading as a whole, The PlayBook gets more into the nuts and bolts of trading, detailing trade set-ups and trade management, with a heavy emphasis on trade review and structure. The goal appears to be to help short-term traders develop their own set of plays, just like a football or basketball team uses, to focus only on those trades that are most comfortable and rewarding to the trader. Essentially, it reinforces the old maxim of "do more of what works and less of what doesn't." This book will help teach readers exactly what it says in its title: how to think like a professional trader. Its purpose is not to give you all the trade set-ups that will make you successful, so please do not buy the book with the intention of learning some secret technical pattern or indicator that will make you rich. While it does give several examples of trades and trade set-ups, it focuses more on the work involved and the mindset needed to succeed. It is up to each individual to develop a system that works for him or her, and the author even says that trying to copy some guru or a consistently profitable trader is not the path to follow. Overall, I think it's a good book on trading and one I'll likely read again. PROS: 1. Written in an easy-to-follow style by an author who has succeeded in trading (it sounds like he doesn't trade as much as he used to, but that's understandable given he's running a business). 2. Gives a realistic look at how difficult trading professionally is and the work involved. Many books make it sound like everyone should just quit their jobs and trade for a living. 3. Discusses the ins and outs of trading more than One Good Trade did, while also providing templates for trade setups and reviews. CONS: 1. While I didn't mind it, I know some people had issues with One Good Trade being too anecdotal and there's definitely many stories and responses to email questions in The PlayBook. This is not a textbook, but if these informal stories and examples bother you then you'll probably have a problem with this book. 2. The price. Once again, I didn't mind paying ~$30 for the book since I think I got a lot out of it, but in this day and age of <$10 Kindle Books, many people expect a full trading system with anything more than $20. This book is not a trading system or a full course about intraday trading. Go in with the right expectations. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Playbook - An Essential Resource! *by Z***N on September 5, 2026* Great book, great author! You cannot be a serious trader without this book! It has already helped my trading game! SMB Capital has a YouTube channel as well. Check out all they have to offer. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Timeless trading knowledge *by S***O on October 18, 2013* 'The Playbook' is exactly what amateur and professional day traders alike should be looking for. While Mike's previous book, 'One Good Trade' gives a look into the world of proprietary trading and what it takes to get involved in the business, 'The Playbook' goes a step further and assumes you already know a few things about the market. The book is exactly as it is advertised: a playbook, one trade at a time, from professionals who have survived in the business for decades, who are STILL actively trading the CURRENT market. The negative reviews I've read of this book give off the same layman impression that they're still searching for the "holy grail" in their trading, as if they expect to pick up a trading book and magically understand how to take money out of the market for the rest of eternity and become filthy rich with "one weird trick", or some other silly fantasy. Don't kid yourself and act surprised that some form of technical analysis (whether it be tape reading, charting, volume profiling, etc.) is how certain very successful traders trade. The price of the book is too much? Give me a break. I can't imagine someone saying with a straight face that paying under $100 to mitigate their risk of losing money is too much. You'll probably pay more than that in commissions next week, think about it. There is the most unfortunate of fates for those searching for that kind of book: good traders working to adapt will continue taking your money. As I said previously, this book also covers the adaptation to high frequency trading and the changes that you must make to your strategies in an ever-changing market. Unlike many other "how-to trading books", 'The Playbook' gets very specific using concrete examples of what works for successful traders, and does not just give you the impression that this is something that will always work. Along with these examples, it includes in-depth interviews with the traders who made the trades themselves, giving you the feeling you're in a training room yourself. These are setups from traders such as Gilbert Mendez, a former partner at SMB Capital who went on to start a hedge fund based on his strategies. While it does give specific setups that you can add to your arsenal, it also gives you a blueprint for the thought process itself that goes into these setups, therefore teaching you how to fish instead of taking you out for one meal. I've experienced a lot of educational material in my trading, and there's not much else out there that is THIS relevant and THIS cheap that can continue to pay dividends to your trading education outside of this book. That is why 'The Playbook' is a necessity for your trading library, because it contains the knowledge and experience to help you adapt these strategies long after the setups within it have been outdated by the market. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pt/products/72179142-the-playbook-an-inside-look-at-how-to-think-like](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/72179142-the-playbook-an-inside-look-at-how-to-think-like) --- *Product available on Desertcart Portugal* *Store origin: PT* *Last updated: 2026-10-21*