Breakout Trading Answered

Have you ever noticed that most of the best traders are avid readers? Ask any trader for a list of their favorite books and you'll get an enthusiastic response. And in fact, one of the most frequent questions we get is… …what are the best books for algo traders? This episode will focus on the most important foundational texts for algorithmic trading. With hundreds of books to choose from, how do you find the most actionable, accessible knowledge from the best traders? Mr. Breakouts and I will give you our "Top 4" on this fun, informative episode. Check out the BTA list of essential algo trading books: https://go-bta.com/algo-books

What's the best trading indicator for indexes? Then watch this…

Algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss "Best Index Trading Indicator", including:

• The biggest complaint by traders
• Why volatility is so important to trading
• The 3 ways to use ATR in a trading strategy
• Using volatility to enter a trade
• Filtering out bad trades using volatility
• ATR and volatility exits
• Strategy improvements from 1 indicator
• Plus Bollinger bands, seasonality, trading without stop losses and much more.

Want to know the 6 tendencies indexes respond to the most, so you can use them to improve your index trading strategies?

Then make sure you check out this index trading episode where algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss "Big Index Trading Secret to Get REAL Results", including:

• What makes indexes so good to trade?,
• Combining tendencies to create index trading strategies,
• Tools to identify index tendencies,
• The 6 strongest tendencies in index markets,
• Plus much more.

Join us in the Index Mastery workshop: https://go-bta.com/indexes

With all the indexes available to trade, which one is best? Does it even matter? And which index market is best for shorting in a bear market?

On this episode of Breakout Trading Answered, algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss the "Best Index To Trade", including:

• Why it's important to select the best index market,
• Individual tendencies of index markets and why not all are the same,
• The only index market with a long-term short bias,
• The 2 best indexes to short in a bear market,
• Most stable index for trading,
• Why EMD is difficult to trade,
• The best index trading style for 2023,
• Plus much more.

Sometimes the difference between a profitable strategy and an unprofitable one is the time of day it trades. Why? And when is the best time to trade?

Algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss "The Best Time to Daytrade Indexes", including:

• Why time of day is so important,
• The 3 main sessions in index trading and which has the most opportunity,
• How to increase the profit potential of strategies by extending the session,
• The biggest moving session time in indexes,
• Overnight trading strategies vs daytrading regular hours,
• Plus much more.

Want to know how to beat the S&P 500 index with a simple 5 minute trading strategy?

Algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss "How To Beat The S&P 500 Index", including:

• Why index trading is such a popular option for traders,
• Average stock market returns and why it can be so easy to beat the index,
• 4 simple principles to trade index markets,
• Does the 200 day moving average actually work,
• Using the ADX trend indicator for index trading,
• Slippage, exiting trades end of the week, robustness, index tendencies fading,
• PLUS we even test a basic index trading strategy in Tradestation to prove index tendencies work!

Want to know the best markets to trade right now? Then check this…

Algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss "How To Find The Best Market To Trade Right Now", including:

• Why market selection is so important,
• How to find the market with the most opportunity,
• Changes in index markets,
• The best market to trade right now,
• Plus much more.

Frustrated with taking too many losing trades? Here's 3 simple tips you can use to avoid bad trades.

Algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss "How To Avoid Taking Losing Trades", including:

• The 2 T's formula for less losing trades,
• The simple market analysis tool every trader can use,
• Identifying Directional Bias to reduce losing trades,
• How to deploy Timing to reduce false breakouts,
• Using Trend to identify when not to trade,
• Moving Average trend filters,
• Plus much more.

Algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss "How a positive trading community can improve your trading results", including:

• Why trading losses are so painful and what the greatest traders do to refocus themselves,
• Why you should actively avoid negative traders and communities,
• The truth behind our own trading success,
• How sharing can actually accelerate your trading success,
• Where to find a positive and supportive trading community,
• Plus much more.

Algorithmic breakout trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott discuss "How To Stop Losing Money: WINNING TRADING MODEL", including:

• The difference between a trading model and a strategy,
• Why it's important to have a model first (and why no model usually means losing money),
• How to create a trading model and determine if it's good or not,
• A super simple breakout trading model you can use to build unlimited trading strategies,
• Plus much more.