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How To Double Your Profit On Emini S&P 500 and NASDAQ
Are you tired of trading indexes and barely breaking even on trades? Are you looking for a way to significantly increase your profits without spending hours analyzing charts and...

Can Algo Trading Beat the Market?
Investing in an index like the S&P 500 may seem like a safe bet, but it can often bring about huge drawdowns for index investors. Is there a better alternative? Can...

Got too many trading rules?
Here’s a great quote, from a legendary trader with 30+ years experience… It's a great reminder that when it comes to trading, less can often be more… "I get real, real concerned...

How Does Algo Trading Work?
Everybody throws around the term “algorithmic trading,” but what does it really mean and how do you do it effectively? In this episode of Breakout Trading Answered, Mr. Breakouts...
How Much Money Do You Need to Trade Futures?
How much money do you REALLY need to trade Futures? In this episode, Algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss: Why Futures is the best market for serious traders, The dangers of having the wrong account size, 4 factors that...
4 Must-Have Algo-Trading Books For Advanced Traders
Have you ever noticed that most of the best traders are avid readers? Ask any trader for a list of their favorite books and you’ll get an enthusiastic response. And in fact, one of the most frequent questions we get is… …what are the best books for algo traders? In...
How I Transformed My Trading
Want to discover 4 key tips that could transform your trading? In this episode, Mr. Breakouts discussed the 4 main areas of the S.P.I.N framework that transformed his trading, from struggling inconsistent trader to breakout trading specialist, and how you can use...
4 Essential Algo Trading Books for Beginners
Have you ever noticed that alot of the most successful traders are avid readers? Books are a great source of ideas and knowledge, but out of the hundreds of trading books available, which ones are even worth reading? If I was starting algo trading right now, these are...
Big Index Trading Secret to Get REAL Results
Want to know the 6 tendencies indexes respond to the most, so you can use them to improve your index trading strategies? Then make sure you check out this index trading episode where algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss...
Best Index Trading Indicator
What’s the best trading indicator for indexes? Then watch this… Algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss “Best Index Trading Indicator”, including: The biggest complaint by traders Why volatility is so important to trading...
The Best Index To Trade Right Now (and in the coming year!)
With all the indexes we have to choose to trade, which one is the best for trading? What about in Bull markets or Bear markets? Does it even matter? That’s exactly what we’re going to discuss in this episode. Are all indexes the same? Some traders might think “Indexes...
The Best Time to Daytrade Indexes
Sometimes the difference between a profitable strategy and an unprofitable one is the time of day it trades. Why? And when is the best time to trade? Algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss “The Best Time to Daytrade...
How To Beat The S&P 500 Index
Index Markets are the most popular markets to trade. In fact, Indexes are so popular they’re often used as a benchmark for performance. A lot of traders and investors compare their own performance to the S&P500. Produce returns above the benchmark and the...