what’s eating your trading profits

Ever seen a cartoon and thought, “Yep, that’s me”?  I stumbled upon one on Twitter last week: I've been that trader. And so have many others. Here’s how it usually goes: - Gorgeous trade setup - Indicators screaming “go” - So, you dive in headfirst… Then WHAM—the...

my only regret

The other day I was reflecting on my trading journey and had an amazing realization. Before I discovered trading, I was a creative director in an advertising agency. Even though I was very interested in the creative side of filmmaking, I hated the corporate hustle...

why amateur traders don’t make it

Someone asked me a great question the other day: When building trading strategies, what’s the difference between amateur and professional traders? This is a really important question to ask because we all start as amateurs, but... Most traders never make it to...

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7 Reasons To Use Breakout Strategies

7 Reasons To Use Breakout Strategies

Wondering why breakout trading is so popular and you should focus on it too? Then check out this short video with algorithmic traders and breakout trading specialists Tomas...

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Modern ways of position sizing

Modern ways of position sizing

When I first started with trading more than a decade ago, I thought trading success was about being right - knowing when to enter the market and milk some money out of it quickly. Pretty soon the markets taught me that this was not the right path to...

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Enough strategies for a lifetime

Enough strategies for a lifetime

Last Friday Andrew shared with Breakout Strategy Masterclass students a summary of 700+ amazing breakout trading strategies he personally created using the process from the Breakout Masterclass With this outstanding number of powerful strategies (21% of...

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The 3 stages of trading blindness

The 3 stages of trading blindness

A common phenomena I call “system trading blindness” is one of the biggest obstacles towards long-term trading success and is one of the key reasons why so many system traders fail. [bctt tweet="'“System trading blindness” is one of the biggest obstacles...

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Trading advice from a jungle guide

Trading advice from a jungle guide

I just got back from the jungle.  The real, Malaysian jungle, where I spent 3 days, together with spiders, snakes, monitor lizards, elephants, monkeys and other similar company. Although I didn’t have any direct encounters with dangerous animals (just constantly...

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My Love Affair With Breakouts

My Love Affair With Breakouts

It’s Valentine's day in a few days, so I think it’s a good time to share how I fell in love... It happened about 7 years ago, during a time when I was looking for ‘The one’ - that perfect trading strategy. The One I could spend the rest of my life with....

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The Apple Portfolio Strategy

The Apple Portfolio Strategy

Apple is now one of the most valuable companies in the world, but back in 1997 it was a very different story. The company was in extremely poor condition, losing tens of millions of dollars every quarter, trying to sustain a huge amount of products, and with no clear...

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Quit to Win

Quit to Win

Without regular servicing and maintenance a car becomes unreliable, inefficient and can break down completely over time. Last week we shared how regular maintenance and reoptimization of trading strategies is also important for good performance,...

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Maintain to survive (and stay profitable)

Maintain to survive (and stay profitable)

Do you know what is one of the favorite hobbies in Europe? Having, and constantly improving small, cozy weekend houses (usually far away from the city). A calm sanctuary to spend our weekends and relax for the upcoming week. My parents had a small weekend house about...

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Market-beating lesson from a Karate World Champion

Market-beating lesson from a Karate World Champion

"A very thin line separates victory from defeat" - Ricardo Teixeira (Karate World Champion in 1993) Last year, we had the opportunity to meet the World Champion in Karate Shukokai, Ricardo Teixeira. In an amazingly inspiring speech of his outstanding achievement,...

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