Breakout Trading Blog
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...
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...
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,...
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...
I did NOT study at a trading school…!
People seem to be VERY surprised when they realize that as a professional trader and hedge-fund manager/owner, I did NOT study at any relevant school. But it’s true. In fact, I studied at a FILM school. I always loved watching movies. So, since I was 11, I wanted to...
Profitable strategies going to the trash…
We are throwing away hundreds of strategies that made us a LOT of money. Seriously. When I launched my hedge fund a few years ago, it was with a big database of exceptional, high-quality breakout strategies (all built with the framework I share in the Breakout...
Think different
These 2 words probably remind you of the Apple advertising campaign in the late 1990s. The campaign was a huge success, and featured a number of iconic personalities, including Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr, John Lennon, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Mahatma...
Most traders think about this all WRONG
“Work hard and you’ll be rewarded”. I’m sure you’ve heard this before. You probably heard it at home as a child. You probably heard it at school from your teachers. And you probably heard it at work too. It’s a common “understanding” around the world, and in lots of...
Is this portfolio going to be a nightmare?
Sometimes, you dream about something, but when it actually happens, you hope it will not turn into a nightmare. This month is a BIG one for our hedge fund. We finally got a ‘green light’ from our main institutional investor to assemble and start trading a new...
“Flat tire” trading accounts testing
A few days ago, I noticed one of the tires on my car was almost completely flat. The tire was looking a little flat a few weeks earlier, but it wasn't causing much of a problem then and I was busy with other things so I did nothing about it. But now, it was obviously...
Just get it done!
This week I got stuck. No, it wasn’t trading (my hedge fund team is taking care of that). It was WRITING A SCRIPT. I’m a former filmmaker. And from time to time I still feel the urge to create a short video and channel some of my creative passion into this beautiful...
Are you ready to leave your 9 to 5 job?
Many people think that living from trading is difficult. I DON’T THINK SO. Not at all. Yes, it’s a bit different to having a regular job. You certainly can’t rely on receiving a regular paycheck in your bank account every month, so you have to accept the reality of...
How to protect your profits and not give them all back
Has this ever happened to you? You have a really good week/month/quarter/year in trading, making a nice amount of profit. Then the following week/month/quarter/year sucks, and you end up losing all or a big portion of those profits you made? In fact, it happened in my...