Breakout Trading Blog
How Filters Enhance Your Breakout Strategies
Want to enhance your breakout trading strategies for better performance? Watch this short video where algo breakout traders Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss filters to...
How To Diversify Your Trading To Adjust For Market Change
The markets are constantly changing, so how can traders adjust to that? Watch this short video where algo traders Tomas and Andrew discuss how to use diversification to adapt to...
Are You Trading Under The Compensation Illusion?
The “Compensation Illusion” can be so damaging for traders... Find out how in this short video from algo trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott....
How Top Traders Deal With Losing Streaks
Wondering how top traders deal with losing streaks? Watch this show video where algorithmic traders and breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott reveal...
How to trade for big wins with a very small risk
How would you like to make a profit of $7,380 on a trade with only a $500 stop loss? That’s a profit of almost 15x your risk! Sounds too good to be true? Well it’s not. A week ago we published a video case study called “How Lawyer Brian made +25,592 USD in live...
How letting everything burn to ash and starting over is sometimes the best solution
We had a HUGE fire not far from our house last week. Helicopters were flying past one after another. They were trying to access a pretty remote area and kill the fire before it spreads to the town. 177 firemen were involved and over 50 people were evacuated. It looked...
The fastest and easiest way to make money in algo-trading
People sometimes ask me if there’s a way to “cheat” in the markets a little bit. And I admit, there is. Of course, it's not “cheating” in the classical meaning. But it's definitely a small shortcut to start making at least some profit in algo-trading faster. And it...
Can you save a totally broken trading strategy?
It’s a pretty scary experience when you witness a real death for the first time. When I was studying at film school, I was working on the very first MISSION IMPOSSIBLE installment. As an 18-year-old student, I had this enormous privilege to stand face to face with Tom...
What’s so “offensive” about my defensive trading philosophy?
No, I’m not going to ‘offend’ anyone in this post (not even the Kardashians - which is always tempting!). I just want to talk about something I almost NEVER talk about. So you’d better read this post till the end. Because the chances are that you will not hear me...
Use it or lose it
The human brain has some staggering capabilities. Yet, we still don't know how to use it to its full potential. What we do know for sure is that if ANY part of the brain gets damaged... ...another part of the brain can take over instead! This brain research field is...
What a “small test” means for banks and how to not f*ck it up
I’m going to share with you something I probably shouldn’t. But I find it both pretty fascinating and pretty funny, so I want to share. As I had already shared with you previously, our hedge fund made a big decision this year. We decided not to accept private VIP...
The ‘Maximum Favorable Market’ (MFM) approach to better trades
Many years ago, I used to be a discretionary trader. And during that time, two of my biggest weapons of mass financial abundance were Maximum Adverse Excursion (MAE) analysis and Maximum Favorable Excursion (MFE) analysis. Both are very simple concepts. In the first...
A classic indicator that still keeps doing magic
‘Fancy’ doesn’t always equal ‘better’. In fact, you’ll probably be surprised how much money even really “OLD” stuff can make. I want to share with you a very old indicator, that most algo-traders probably haven’t touched for years. It’s simply “too obsolete” for many....