Breakout Trading Answered

Wondering which trading style you should focus on and why breakout trading is so popular (and profitable)?

Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott share "7 Reasons You Should Trade Breakout Strategies NOW", including:

• Does breakout trading work,
• Which markets does breakout trading work on,
• Why it's important to have simple trading models,
• Account size required for breakout trading, plus
• Micro futures, extended trading hours, automation, genetic optimization, and example breakout trading strategy with code and much more.

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Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott share 5 tips to build better breakout trading strategies, including:

• How to avoid the noise to create better better breakout strategies,
• Why you should always prototype on a small piece of data only and how much data you should use,
• Why you don't need to worry about the "rationale" behind a trading strategy (and what you should worry about instead…),
• How to have a good sample-size and how much is enough,
• Why you should always cross-validate
• And much more.

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In this episode, algo trading specialists Tomas Nesnidal and Andrew Swanscott share 6 top tips for algo breakout trading.

For more great trading content, visit: https://bettertraderacademy.com

Markets aren't always on our side.

In fact, at any moment, they can turn on you. And right now, we're seeing a lot of panic in the markets.

The question is, how ready are you? And more importantly, how protected is your account?

Do you watch your trading account flush down the drain and get completely wiped out?

Or do you have systems in place to protect it and thrive?

The good news is that you don't EVER have to be part of the first group.

In today's podcast, we discuss what we can do to protect our accounts in times of market stress. Here's what you'll discover:

• The risks of trading in troubled markets, and how you can take advantage of them to create more trading opportunities,
• What you can do right now to make sure your trading account survives for the long haul,
• What risk management techniques you can apply to your account to save yourself an enormous amount of money and pain,
• The best approach you could apply in any kind of market stress,
• The benefits of trading futures markets compared to stocks,
• Plus, much more.

Do you have any trading questions you'd like answered? Submit them here, and we may cover them in a future episode!

People that want to become successful traders tend to start their journey the wrong way.

Many will follow a 'corporate-like' path, thinking this is how to find the answers about successful trading, however...

I've been a trader for 12 years and let me tell you…THAT is not the case.

There's only ONE way you can build a successful trading career.

And in this new podcast, I'll share exactly that!

Here's what you'll discover:

• How you can build a REAL trading career and become financially independent,
• What NOT to do if you want to become a serious trader,
• How much you need to start with to build a small portfolio, and how to grow from there,
• How your friends and family can improve your trading and your profits,
• And how you can leverage your know-how to grow your profits even more.

Do you have any trading questions you'd like answered? Submit them here, and we may cover them in a future episode!

Launching a new trading strategy can be tricky.

Sometimes even the most obvious moment can come with painful consequences.

Unfortunately, I had to learn the hard way...

But now I've got some good experience on how to time the launch of a new trading strategy properly. (Because, in trading, EVERYTHING is about the right timing).

In this new podcast episode, I share some valuable tips to stop you from making the same amateur mistakes, so you don't have to suffer the same painful consequences I did.

Here's what you'll find in this episode:

• The very worst moment to launch a new trading strategy (do this and your trading will suffer!),
• The mistakes I had to go through, so you don't have to,
• The approach we use to launch new trading strategies and portfolios in our hedge fund and why you should consider using the same approach,
• How sometimes the most counterintuitive approaches can be the best,
• And how your psychological state can influence your trading performance.

Do you have any trading questions you'd like answered? Submit them here, and we may cover them in a future episode!

Everyone wants more profits.

And they want it faster.

That includes me, you and all the other traders out there.

There are some really great approaches to speeding up the growth of your portfolio. Some work ok, and some work better than others.

The technique I'm going to share with you today has been doing real magic for me. For years.

We use it heavily in our hedge fund too.

But it'll probably be very NEW to you, so make sure you listen to this podcast episode. Here's what you'll discover:

• My proprietary trading secret to growing your trading business faster and more efficiently,
• Vertical scaling versus horizontal scaling,
• How quickly you should be scaling up,
• My key approach to a continuously smooth equity curve,
• What you should be focusing on first when scaling up your business.

Do you have any trading questions you'd like answered? Submit them here, and we may cover them in a future episode!

Strategy validation is a crucial part of live trading.

Get it wrong and the results can be disastrous.

Traders rely on various techniques to validate strategies, including out of sample testing, but how do we know if the approaches we're using are even valid?

In today's podcast episode we discuss a series of questions submitted by trader Sam.

Sam raises a number of interesting points about out of sample testing that all traders need to consider, including:

• How much out of sample data is sufficient to identify a stable relationship,

• How do you know that what worked in Out of Sample testing will continue to work,

• Is it even possible to avoid curve-fitting,

• Why you should NEVER use trading techniques as crutches,

• Plus much more.

Do you have any trading questions you'd like answered? Submit them here, and we may cover them in a future episode!

If I asked you today:

Can you see yourself flying on a private jet in 12 to 24 months?

What would you reply?

Could you see yourself in that position in a year from now?

From my personal experience, a lot of traders will say 'No WAY'. They'll completely shut down the idea and intention of visualizing their near-term future.

But as a matter of fact, visualizing your 1 to 2-year goals is what may actually help you get there faster.

And I'm living proof of it.

But it's not just me. Top performers and athletes all around the world are using these techniques to succeed.

So, if you want to become an Algo-millionaire, you have to start thinking and visualizing like you are one already.

And how do you do it exactly?

That's the topic of today's podcast, where we discuss the techniques that could help you experience tremendous progress in your trading, even in a very reasonable amount of time. Here's what you'll discover:

• Why it's so hard for traders to visualize their near-term results,

• How our subconscious mind prevents us from moving in the right direction,

• How emotional visualization pushes traders to a whole new level of achievement,

• How to successfully practice emotional visualization,

• And much more!

Do you have any trading questions you'd like answered? Submit them here, and we may cover them in a future episode!

Who wants more free time to do the things they enjoy the most?

To live the life of our dreams and not have to eat, breath and sleep work?

I'm sure we all do, but how can we do that and still make money at the same time?

No… the answer is not the cliché 'work harder'...

The answer is to work SMARTER.

Luckily, we're in an era where we can leverage technology so that the majority of our work can be done for us - we just need to set up the process and then we can go enjoy life while the computer does the work for us!

But where do we even start and how can we do it?

Great question and today's podcast gives you all the answers. Here's what you'll discover:

• How Automation can give you the life of your dreams,

• How much of the trading process you can automate and what you should start with,

• The do's and don'ts of automation, to prevent you from pouring years of profit down the drain,

• Where you can learn how to develop good, sound trading models to use as a strong foundation for automation,

• Plus, much more!

So go listen to it now.

Be smart and automate!