








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...

Episode 017: How DPS can increase your probability of success
Trading is a probability game. But the probability of the success of each trade changes every single...

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...

Episode 016: The ‘traditional trading’ trap
Let’s face it… most traders will NEVER make money in their trading career. Yup, you read that right… in their ENTIRE...

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...

Work to death or automate?
Each year, around 30,000 people in Japan commit suicide. Why? Because of overwork. They even have a word for that kind of suicide in Japanese: “Karoshi”. And I personally think that many people around the world are close to Karoshi too. During my last visit to the US,...

Episode 015: How to survive confused markets
Imagine having a trade that's had a nice run and is holding a tidy profit. Then, just before the market closes,...