Breakout Trading Blog
The Best Software For Breakout Trading
What's the best software for breakout trading? You may be surprised by the answer... In this short video, algorithmic traders and breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and...
Feel the Fear, Do it Anyway
Is fear holding your trading back from genuine progress? Then watch this short video where algorithmic traders and breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew...
How Much Data Should You Use When Testing Trading Strategy Ideas?
Wondering how much data you should use to backtest your trading strategy ideas to give a good enough sample size while not overfitting? It's a great question - watch this short...
How to become a better trader from trading legend Robert Pardo
Want to improve yourself to become a better trader? Check out this short video from trading legend Bob Pardo... https://youtu.be/ATlkP1p6wZM For more great trading videos,...
How to increase your trading energy by hundreds of percent
Last month I got pretty low on energy and all my work started slowing down too - including in trading. Which is something I totally did NOT like. You know probably why: Simply said, we traders, always love to keep going and not being stuck! We like being warriors,...
Successful traders do this…
This week I've been reading a book that really gave me a kick in the butt and narrowed my focus. It's a book called 'Be obsessed or be average' by Grant Cardone. Grant Cardone is a New York Times bestselling author, an internationally renowned speaker and trainer, has...
5 trading projects for 2020
I know, I know... it’s February already. So my trading projects for 2020 should have been set already. Yet, this year it was harder than previous years. The reason is simple: With the growth of our hedge fund, there are simply too many projects we want to accomplish....
I almost killed myself…
It happened 11 years ago. At that time, I had an ENORMOUS fear of flying, which is a problem for a frequent traveler like me... you definitely don’t want to sweat and shake like crazy during take-off and landing every time you fly. So, I HAD to do something about it....
Finally truly Elite traders…
It’s been a pretty exhausting week. We’ve been recruiting a small group of ELITE traders, for a one-year mastermind program. First of all, the program is by invitation only, so we personally review every application and then I have a short chat with the majority of...
Hacking away at your trading?
Last week I was testing some new Walk Forward software... And I wanted to compare the results of this new software with the results from Tradestation, but there was a problem... I needed to test it on lots of strategies. Not just a few. I wanted to test hundreds. And...
How to get anything you want (even in trading)
I got handed a pretty good lesson this year. At the start of 2019 I took some time to sit down and think about what I wanted to achieve for the year. I had some big ideas, and I had some small ideas. So I wrote them all down, tried to make the list manageable and I...
We’re done for the year! :-)
Even traders have to rest. And Christmas time is definitely the right time, as markets don’t usually move much anyway! So, Andrew, Tomas and the entire Better Trader Academy team are going to be offline until early January, starting next week. But before that, we’d...
My biggest trading failure of 2019
We all fail sometimes. And in this post, I’m going to share with you very openly what I consider to be my biggest trading failure of 2019. But first, let me start with this: As most already know, as a trader, I consider myself to be a BREAKOUT specialist. In trading,...