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The Worst Time to Launch a New Trading Strategy
Want to know the best (and worst) time to launch a new trading strategy? Check out this short clip by breakout trading specialist Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott on "The...
The #1 Focus To Help You Become Successful In Breakout Trading
Want to know the #1 focus for becoming a successful breakout trader? Check out this short clip from breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott on the #1...
How To Make Breakout Trading Work: ENERGIES
Algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss breakout trading in the energy markets, including: Why energy markets are some of the best to...
How to Make Breakout Trading Work: Indexes
Algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss “How to Make Breakout Trading Work: Indexes”, including: The best index markets to trade (and...
Breaking through the fear of going ‘fully in’ with your trading
About 10 years ago I had to face a serious trading challenge. I wasn't able to go ‘full in’ with my trading. And I couldn’t figure out why. I had a good day trading strategy and had been trading it live for a while already. Yet, I was trading it with one contract...
The disappointment of adaptive indicators
Last year I tried my favorite Wonton soup in a Michelin restaurant. And I was utterly disappointed. It was in Kuala Lumpur, in the famous Din Tai Fung restaurant at Bukit Bintang. It is 1 Michelin star restaurant, with many awards and recommendations. (Including the...
A simple hack to ‘super-boost’ trading performance
From my experience, simple hacks don’t work 99% of the time. Yet, the remaining 1% of the time, they can bring some truly remarkable results. And I believe you’ll really like the one I’m going to share with you because it’s easy to implement and the results are...
Student case study (3/3): Improving a trading strategy by +114.40%
Would you like to see a car that can drive, fly and swim? There’s something really cool about crazy ‘3-in-1’ solutions like this… :-) Source: FORBES MAGAZINE JAN 2004 Forbes magazine wrote about such a car in the January 2004 issue. It was a very ambitious project ran...
Student case study (2/3): The SFB way to more robust strategies
I once lost almost 20,000 USD on a trading strategy because of poor robustness. It was at the start of my trading career and I had no idea what I was doing. I thought that all I needed to do to be a successful trader was to get some cool trading idea and then optimize...
Student case study (1/3): Surgeon revives a dying trading strategy
Alan saves lives. He’s a doctor. A surgeon.And now he’s decided to see if he can save dying trading strategies too.Friends call him ‘Al’.Al is one of our most passionate Breakout Strategies Masterclass students. He’s moving ahead with his trading at the speed of...
How to build a portfolio for steady trading income
I’m officially on vacation. But sometimes, even vacations can su*k a bit. Because it can get boring fast! I’m currently on vacation in Portugal, in an area called Algarve. I know this area really well because I used to live here, so it’s not as exciting as visiting a...
How ‘unlearning’ can make you a better trader
My friend Mike was a former CIA agent. Before that he worked in the military as a fighter pilot. And he’s been a phenomenal option trader for about 30 years too. In fact, I learned everything I needed to become a successful trader from Mike. And it can be put into 2...
How to train yourself against the pain of loses
Sadly, I know traders who have ended up with serious depression. Not because they couldn’t be profitable - quite the opposite. Because even after years of successful trading, they were still taking losing streaks too personally. They allowed losing trades to affect...