Last week I was testing some new Walk Forward software... And I wanted to compare the results of this new software with the results from Tradestation, but there was a problem... I needed to test it on lots of strategies. Not just a few. I wanted to test hundreds. And...

I got handed a pretty good lesson this year. At the start of 2019 I took some time to sit down and think about what I wanted to achieve for the year. I had some big ideas, and I had some small ideas. So I wrote them all down, tried to make the list manageable and I...

Even traders have to rest. And Christmas time is definitely the right time, as markets don’t usually move much anyway! So, Andrew, Tomas and the entire Better Trader Academy team are going to be offline until early January, starting next week. But before that, we’d...

We all fail sometimes. And in this post, I’m going to share with you very openly what I consider to be my biggest trading failure of 2019. But first, let me start with this: As most already know, as a trader, I consider myself to be a BREAKOUT specialist. In trading,...

Last night, I was flicking through the channels on TV, hoping to catch something interesting to watch as I wind down for the day. As I was quickly scanning through the dozens of useless shows being broadcast, I stumbled on a documentary called "Capitalism: A Love...

Last week I published a post about the journey of my hedge fund, which is now heading (hopefully) towards a 100 million Euro investment. And I was super pleased to receive lots of email feedback, not only on that post but also on my question about who intends to...

My hedge fund is close to finalizing a deal. This deal would mean up to 100 million Euro invested in my hedge fund over the next year. Now, don’t get me wrong - until everything is signed and done, I’m definitely not celebrating yet. I know that closing deals like...

Did you see my email from a few days ago? It was about one of my favorite quotes from the TV series Breaking Bad. In case you missed it, the quote goes like this: "I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not...

Last weekend I watched the movie "El Camino". It's an extension of the Breaking Bad television series - one of my most favorite TV series ever. If you haven't seen Breaking Bad, it's about a struggling high school chemistry teacher Walter White, who gets diagnosed...