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[Automated trading] What’s stopping you?

Apr 30, 2018

Recently, we’ve received an interesting question during the 14-Day Breakout Challenge: Tomas, why did you leave other trading styles (commodity spreads, pair trading, options, etc.) and focused on ATS (Automated Trading Strategies) only? Here’s the...

Four levels to smash false breakouts

Apr 23, 2018

We all know this pretty well: A breakout trade in an established trend is triggered. Everything looks really great – the markets are trending and momentum is in place. But as soon as you enter… ... prices reverse immediately and within minutes hit your...

Profiting in volatility

Apr 16, 2018

In trading, it is said that the ‘trend is your friend’. However, some traders are concerned about the recent increases in market volatility and the lack of trends on higher timeframes in some markets, especially the indexes. But volatility can be your...

Let’s talk position sizing

Apr 9, 2018

Last week we have published a post about the optimal stop-loss size. The post obviously brought attention, and I got one very interesting (and important) feedback that I would like to use as a subject for this week’s post. But first, let me post the email...

Big stop-losses versus small stop-losses

Apr 2, 2018

Last week, an interesting discussion about optimal stop-loss sizes and methods was started in the private Breakout Masterclass Community forum. I think it’s a pretty good topic, which can often be misunderstood, so let’s talk about stop-losses a bit more...

Trading heroes just like you

Mar 26, 2018

Last week I shared with you a story of my past two trading heroes, Mike and Bob. You already know this story, but let me also tell you what happened just shortly AFTER that... Just after we published that post, I read it again, and I actually started...

Two breakthrough traders

Mar 19, 2018

In my trading career, I consider 2 traders to be truly breakthrough teachers for me - and in this post I’d like to share who they were and why. The first one is an “ordinary” guy that I met coincidentally through a mutual friend (also a trader) about 10...

Modern ways of position sizing

Mar 12, 2018

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...

Enough strategies for a lifetime

Mar 5, 2018

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...

The 3 stages of trading blindness

Feb 26, 2018

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...

“I’ve been testing out the MI codes the last few days and just adding the mini-smart code and about 20 min of testing, my new results are a 54% reduction in drawdown!

Wonderful code and course. I really hope you guys release more on this particular topic.”

Alex Market Internals Student

"It is a great tool. You are taking position sizing to a new level and I can see why it is so crucial for your hedge fund."

Thomas Dynamic Position Sizing Student

"I have never seen an end to end product like this around systematic trading with all the components clearly laid. Well done guys!"

Nick Breakout Strategies Masterclass Student

“I was skeptical by booking this course. But 'Build e-mini breakout strategies fast' really opened my mind on how it could be possible to build a robust strategy and survive this game.”

Steffen Emini Breakout Strategies Student

"The course is great and a complete "Hands-on" starting package. It covers all the main aspects to get you kick-started in the right direction."

Rick Emini Breakout Strategies Student

"Compliments to the course. The videos were excellent."

Dean Emini Breakout Strategies Student

"I really appreciate what you gentlemen have put together here. I consider your courses to be excellent!!!"

Vernon Automated Strategy Development Student, Breakout Strategies Masterclass Student, Smashing False Breakouts Student, Emini Breakout Strategies Student

"The material offered by Tomas and Andrew provided excellent content that has helped me improve the logic of swing strategies design."

Chang Hui Advanced Swing Strategies Student

"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

"I am already amazed about the concept/ideas presented in the introduction. I always filtered the trades completely out instead of simply down or upsizing them based on the probability. Already that one is simply great, especially to prevent curve fitting and still being in the game also on bad days!"

Christian Dynamic Position Sizing Student