Breakout Trading Blog
Should You Depend On Your Trading Income?
Want to make a living from trading income? Then make sure you watch this first... https://youtu.be/LqPgKjiOObQ For more great trading videos, click here to check out the...
What Index Markets Should You Be Trading?
Wondering which index markets are the best to trade right now? Watch this short video from algo breakout traders Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott. https://youtu.be/Wbnr6pYUk3M...
Why You Should Consider Index Trading After Hours
Wondering if you should trade index markets outside of regular trading hours? Catch the answer in this short video from algorithmic traders Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott....
How Your Environment Impacts Your Trading
If you want to be a successful trader, you need to make sure you’re in the right environment for success. To find out why, watch this short video from algo traders Tomas Nesnidal...
Kicked in the teeth
Did you see my email from a few days ago? It was about one of my favorite quotes from the TV series Breaking Bad. In case you missed it, the quote goes like this: "I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not...
Your enemy
Last weekend I watched the movie "El Camino". It's an extension of the Breaking Bad television series - one of my most favorite TV series ever. If you haven't seen Breaking Bad, it's about a struggling high school chemistry teacher Walter White, who gets diagnosed...
This is disappointing
I have a confession to make. It's almost as disappointing as the ending to Game of Thrones, but... It's something that ALL traders have to deal with, so I know I'm not alone. And to make matters worse, it's something that Tomas and I talked about a few months ago in a...
My trading is behind and it’s frustrating, but…
In trading, we should always expect the unexpected. But surprisingly, this applies to the positive side of things as well. When I launched my hedge fund in 2017, I had no idea what to expect. Of course, except for one thing: I definitely didn’t expect a lot of money...
How to minimize bad trading months
Last week I shared with you how October was a challenging month for our hedge fund. But wait. THERE’S MORE TO IT. What I didn’t share with you in that post was… that it could have been even worse. MUCH WORSE. And it wasn’t. Which I consider GREAT news. It was just a...
And the loser of the year is…
I have to admit, October was a challenging month. I don’t know why, but it was the 2nd October in a row our hedge fund didn’t go well. I even thought it had something to do with the DST time changes around the world. So I asked my team to do a thorough analysis of...
The tale of 3 traders
Over the last month or so, we've been publishing a free online workshop on Facebook, called How to avoid false breakouts and trade genuine signals only in 7 days or less with the ‘Breakout Timing Pyramid’ formula. Just the other day we received a comment that wasn't...
These sneaky “trick or treaters” can’t fool me
Kids can be so sneaky… but they can’t fool me (this time). Last week it was Halloween. And as expected, there were a large number of costumed characters moving from door to door, collecting treats. But a group of three kids really stood out... They had cooked up a...
A scary warning for traders this Halloween
Fellow ghouls, goblins, witches, wizards, zombies and all other spooky creatures that lurk in the darkness (yes even you naughty nurses). While you move from door to door this Halloween, "trick or treating", something far scarier has been unfolding. Something so...