The Playbook

Bellafiore, co-founder of SMB Capital prop trading firm, builds on his earlier One Good Trade with a practical framework for identifying your best trade setups and building a personal playbook around them. Real trade examples and trainee accounts make abstract concepts like 'trading psychology' and 'setup discipline' concrete and relatable in a way that textbooks rarely manage. The honest dimension about how difficult professional trading actually is comes through clearly. This is not for beginners or long-term investors — it presumes you already understand markets and are working to improve your execution. If that describes you, it is one of the better books in its lane. If you're new to markets, start elsewhere.