Breakout Trading Blog
How Automation Helps Breakout Strategies
Want to use automated breakout strategies? Find out how in this short video from algo trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott. https://youtu.be/1UlhUUWF1CQ For...
How To Make Breakout Trading Work: EUROPEAN MARKETS
Algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss “How To Make Breakout Trading Work: EUROPEAN MARKETS”, including: Which European markets are...
Why You Should Be Cross-Validating Your Index Strategies
How do you know if your index trading strategies are any good? Watch this short video where algo traders Tomas and Andrew discuss why you should be cross-validating your index...
1 Way To Achieve Lower Correlations When Trading Indexes
Alot of times the indexes all move the same way, which can increase risk and drawdowns. How can you achieve lower correlations and more stable returns trading indexes? Watch this...
How to profit in financial armageddon
I was just thinking about a good topic for this week’s post - when this notification from our hedge fund risk management platform came in:I know that “just” +825 USD per contract on Wheat isn’t anything mind-blowing or spectacular, but considering how many people...
Coronavirus makes me ‘high’…
The last few weeks I was pretty 'high'. Not because I was smoking something. Or because of the Coronavirus. And no, I am not a masochist, finding pleasure in collapsing markets and worldwide panic. Not at all. Sure I feel compassion for everyone directly or indirectly...
Would you go to “dangerous” Saudi Arabia?
The Persian Gulf is not really the safest place to go to at the moment, right? Yet, that’s exactly where I’ve started planning my next trip to: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Turkey. Why exactly? Well, it’s very simple: Because in life, like in trading,...
What is your UNIQUE MECHANISM?
Have you ever thought about why so many traders fail? Well, there are many reasons, of course. But one of many, and unfortunately a pretty common and obvious one, is this: Too many traders simply keep using approaches that do NOT work anymore. Especially approaches...
+55% profit on Russian markets
I’m shocked! Sometimes one has no idea how well the stuff he uses in trading actually works. Just recently, I received an email from a student of the Build Emini Breakout Strategies fast course. He took the knowledge from the course and applied it to the Russian...
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....