Breakout Trading Blog
How Much Capital Do You Need to Trade Micro or Mini Contracts in Energies?
Want to trade micro or mini contracts in energies? Watch this short video where algo breakout traders Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss how much capital you need to...
How system sizing can help your trading reach it’s full potential
Position sizing can actually hurt your trading - how? What’s the solution? Watch this short video where algo breakout traders Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss how...
Why You Need to Choose the Right Market Time-Frame Combo For You
Want to enhance your trading strategies so they perform better for you? Watch this short video where algo breakout traders Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss why you...
How To Make Breakout Trading Work: MEATS
Algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss “How To Make Breakout Trading Work: MEATS”, including: Tradability of the Meats markets and...
The new type of markets?
Many traders are more than familiar with two regular types of markets: Bull and bear markets. Every trader knows that a rising market is called a “bull market“ and a falling market is called a “bear market”. And if you have at least a bit of trading experience, you...
The “MVS technique” to faster algo strategies
What would you do with this? Here’s the results of testing a raw trading idea using the MVS technique (a super-quick way to take a basic trading idea and convert it into an algo strategy fast). Now, these results aren’t a complete trading strategy (yet), but it’s...
From idea to algo strategy… faster than a speeding bullet
When I was a kid I loved the Superman movies. I still remember going to the cinemas (or watching it on VHS - ha, remember those!) with my parents whenever a new Superman movie was released. One of the scenes that still sticks in mind is the famous helicopter scene....
Accelerate your trading income for 2021
Oliver and Brian are guys like you. They’re passionate for trading, and eager to succeed. They’re also driven, hard-working, and dedicated to leave their 9 to 5 job and make trading their only income. A BIG income. Both Oliver and Brian started with the Breakout...
Other traders’ results
Internet scams are everywhere. In fact, Andrew and I alone could talk about cases where we’ve been victims of dishonest claims and marketing lies from so-called “trading gurus”. Yes, we’ve been scammed too, like many other traders have. And we know transparency is...
Stop the (trading) torture
It was Father's day in Australia a few weeks ago. And as expected, both of my 2 young kids went all out making cards, drawings and wrapping gifts. It was a great day. At some stage during the day though, we got into a tickle fight, because they wouldn’t admit I was...
Better trades, less over-fitting, more cake
Ever heard of the saying "You can't have your cake and eat it too"? It's supposed to mean that you can't get two good things at the same time, especially things that aren’t usually possible to have together. But I think it's a ridiculous saying. What's the point in...
The 2020 trading strategies
Recently we updated the entire trading database in our hedge fund. We currently have 1000+ high-quality breakout trading strategies in our database, but we don’t trade them all. Not at all. In fact, we’re currently trading “only” 38 breakout strategies (and adding...
Do this as a back-up plan
The current economical times are pretty rough thanks to this Covid madness. There’s a lot of uncertainty. Nobody knows how their business will work out next year, or if it will even survive. And many people are preoccupied with their jobs, as the economic slowdown is...