Mike Bellafiore ✓

@MikeBellafiore · New York, NY · joined 14 Jun 2009

Co-Founder @SMBCapital and https://t.co/SF1XnbDLEy Author- One Good Trade and The PlayBook Board member- @Traders4ACause and @Impact_Comp

96 152Followers

1 269Following

13 990Posts total

220.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views13 017this account949median for 10K–100K

Reach, %13.54%this account3.23%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.62%this account2.00%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	13 017	949	13.7×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	13.54%	3.23%	4.19×
Engagement rate	0.62%	2.00%	0.31×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

42K28 Jul

32.1K

13K4 Aug

9.1K

20.9K25 Aug

12.5K

89.2K4 Sep

988

4135 Sep

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.60%28 Jul

0.80%

0.36%4 Aug

0.62%

0.71%25 Aug

1.32%

0.90%4 Sep

0.20%

0.48%5 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.00%.

What the audience does

Likes63.3%1 518 in total

Reposts6.4%153 in total

Replies1.8%44 in total

Quotes0.7%17 in total

Bookmarks27.8%667 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@MikeBellafiore Agree on not setting your goals too low or setting arbitrary goals, but the irony of your post Mike is that you're quoting absolute dollar amounts. This is rather arbitrary to us (who have no idea how much capital is deployed to get to say $1M month). A % goal mak 413 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@MikeBellafiore Thank you, Mike. Great story & great advice. 988 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

STOP SETTING SMALL TRADING GOALS! Want to know the most dangerous mistake ambitious developing traders make when setting career goals? Hint: It isn’t aiming too high. It’s setting the bar way too low. Let me share a story from our prop desk. During a recent monthly review ht 89.2K views · 699 likes · 73 reposts · 21 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

"Each trade has to become a learning lesson, reinforcing your strengths and correcting your weaknesses." 👇👊 12.5K views · 148 likes · 13 reposts · 4 replies 25 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

After reading a broad cross section of books on trading mastery, including the Market Wizards series, here are four elements of trading success that I'm convinced are essential to the building of mastery: https://t.co/aXjekeywAq @gfc4 @jackschwager @markminervini https://t.co/Eh 20.9K views · 128 likes · 18 reposts · 1 replies 25 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

"Creative thinking. Deep practice. Immersion. Resilience. This is what makes greatness in any field." 👇👊 9.1K views · 49 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies 04 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Here's an inside look at how a developing trader became a successful money manager and a link to Wednesday's free trading psychology webinar: https://t.co/uQGJKSQyvA @Ahead_Coach @prrobbins @MikeBellafiore @smbcapital https://t.co/zy5tjcFmSY 13K views · 39 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies 04 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Shark, profiled in the most recent Market Wizards, learned from many different traders. He took a little from *many* and added it to his trading. I can hear him saying at the desk, "If I add that to my trading, I will make 10k more. 10k more here, 10k more there, and that ht 32.1K views · 241 likes · 14 reposts · 1 replies 28 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

If I was to start over and wanted to have the best chance of succeeding in this industry these are the guys I would listen to / learn from ( in no particular order ) : My holy trinity @ThinkingUSD @insiliconot @Trader_Dante @gametheorizing - mr game theory himself 42K views · 210 likes · 26 reposts · 13 replies 28 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

To learn 3 real-world setups that our traders use, including the simple setup that we teach all our new traders, and the setup that turned one of our traders into a 7-figure big money earner, check out the free webinar we're currently running. https://t.co/8jg2sc5KSt https://t.c 0 views · 731 likes · 81 reposts · 78 replies 21 Feb 2019 · Open on X →