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What’s your ‘final exit plan’?

Oct 22, 2018

I’m seriously tired. Running a hedge fund is not fun. Not at all. Yes, we do have spectacular results so far. And new money is flowing into our hedge fund every month. Yet, I feel extremely exhausted. Fast growth is bringing up challenges we were not ready for. During...

The surprising reason of financial no-results in trading

Oct 19, 2018

I’ll tell you a very surprising, yet very true reason why many people don’t make money in trading. There is a chance this reason applies to you too... But first, let me share something else with you. I’m a complete idiot when it comes to learning languages. And I mean...

Episode 019: Success story #3 (PART 2) – How Alan the surgeon initiated operation “portfolio”

Oct 17, 2018

Last week, we hosted a brilliant discussion with the orthopedic surgeon,...

Breaking through the fear of going ‘fully in’ with your trading

Oct 15, 2018

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

Oct 12, 2018

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...

Episode 018: Success story #3 (PART 1) – How orthopedic surgeon Alan created more than 70 robust strategies in under 2 months

Oct 10, 2018

Alan, an electric engineer tuned orthopedic...

A simple hack to ‘super-boost’ trading performance

Oct 8, 2018

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%

Oct 5, 2018

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

Oct 1, 2018

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

Sep 28, 2018

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...

"Thanks everyone for all the tips, and big thanks to Tomas & Andrew for getting this info out. I cannot imagine how much time (and money) these courses have saved me. Up until this point I had assumed a 10-year optimization (with 20% OOS) followed by a SWFA was adequate robustness testing to start trading a strategy live."
Nathan Breakout Strategies Masterclass Student

"Tom´s systems and trading approach do really work and can bring good, stable and reasonable returns."
David Breakout Trading Student

"Tomas, Andrew and their team put together a thought through, very well structured program. I can recommend this to anyone who wants to develop very robust strategies in many different markets."
Oliver Breakout Strategies Masterclass Student

"Tom's approach to ATS design, tests of robustness and portfolio diversification is really unique."
Antonin Breakout Trading Student

"As a programmer who has been fiddling with automated trading via AmiBroker and standalone Interactive Brokers API I kind of thought 'Oh well, another set of rules to program, might be interesting, may as well have a look'.
I was completely blown away by Tomas' automated strategy creation idea - so obvious in retrospect, but so clever. Effectively optimizing the strategies rather than the parameters. Game-changer."
Dave Emini Breakout Strategies Student

"I've not even watched past module 3 and already I've found a solid use for Market Internals in my own trading system!
I'm really impressed by what I've tested already- I've been trading for nearly 11 years and I've never thought of using something so conceptually simple but so powerful"
Craig Market Internals Student

"I finished the masterclass in a few days. It is an excellent course and I wished I had that at the beginning of my trading adventure. I was impressed with how generous Tomas is with the know-how he passes on. I think anyone who trades mechanically will find lots of gems. Most of the traders don't have that level of automation and will be amazed to get a full methodology."
Thomas Breakout Strategies Masterclass Student

"You want to be sure your money is well spent and it is usable out of the box...save time and re-use the knowledge of other experienced traders."
Marcello Market Internals Student

This year I'm much better than I was one year ago before I bought your Trading Market Internals course. This was for me very, very important to improve myself. I'm more confident in trading, especially in trading stock indexes, because of Better Trading Academy.
I'm very, very thankful to you and Tomas, this is very good work.
Maxim Schulz 3rd place in World Cup Trading Championship 2017 Market Internals Student

"I have taken it, and finished lesson 1. I think the value is much higher the price. Actually, I use the similar breakout strategies for swing trading. But this course still inspired me new ideas, it could be a part of my personal trading style. Thank you for sharing this good course."
Rick Liao Emini Breakout Strategies Student