
BTA Live: My Best Emini S&P500 Breakout Strategies
09/05/23 • 27 min
Are you ready to explore the untapped potential of Emini S&P 500 breakout strategies? In this episode I share a few of my best S&P 500 breakout strategies, to demonstrate the importance of early market moves, asymmetrical breakout levels, short-only strategies, risk management techniques, and more. Here's a sneak peek of the topics discussed in this episode:
- Setting realistic expectations in trading strategies
- A specific breakout model for the S&P 500 market
- A day trading strategy on a 30-minute timeframe, including entry time and use of asymmetrical breakout levels and simple filters
- Out-of-sample performance and risk management in the strategy
- A swing strategy with a good sample size and different fractions of long and short trades
- A strategy with a fixed profit target based on a 2 to 1 reward-risk ratio
- A short-only strategy with a high average rate of return per trade
- Using dollar-based stop losses in breakout trading strategies
- Plus much more.
For more trading content visit https://bettertraderacademy.com/
Are you ready to explore the untapped potential of Emini S&P 500 breakout strategies? In this episode I share a few of my best S&P 500 breakout strategies, to demonstrate the importance of early market moves, asymmetrical breakout levels, short-only strategies, risk management techniques, and more. Here's a sneak peek of the topics discussed in this episode:
- Setting realistic expectations in trading strategies
- A specific breakout model for the S&P 500 market
- A day trading strategy on a 30-minute timeframe, including entry time and use of asymmetrical breakout levels and simple filters
- Out-of-sample performance and risk management in the strategy
- A swing strategy with a good sample size and different fractions of long and short trades
- A strategy with a fixed profit target based on a 2 to 1 reward-risk ratio
- A short-only strategy with a high average rate of return per trade
- Using dollar-based stop losses in breakout trading strategies
- Plus much more.
For more trading content visit https://bettertraderacademy.com/
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BTA Live: How I Created 2000+ Profitable Trading Strategies
Have you ever wondered why having lots of strategies is important for breakout trading? With over 2000+ profitable trading strategies created, Mr. Breakouts discusses tips for discovering unique profitable edges in the markets, proving that a good model and having a large number of strategies can accommodate various market conditions and trading opportunities. Here's a sneak peek of the topics discussed in this episode:
- Discussion on the concept of trading strategies,
- Differentiating suitable markets for breakout trading (futures markets vs. forex or crypto markets),
- Showcasing 2460 robust breakout trading strategies from Tomas's hedge fund database,
- The importance of having a large number of strategies for selection and maximizing trading opportunities,
- Explanation of the model for creating profitable strategies, including elements like point of initiation, space, time, and filters,
- Emphasis on stress testing and robustness testing strategies for quality assurance,
- Recommendation of Tomas's book, "Breakout Trading Revolution," for detailed explanation and examples of the model's application,
- And so much more.
For more trading content visit https://bettertraderacademy.com/
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BTA Live: My Best Emini NASDAQ Breakout Strategies
Are you ready to uncover the hidden opportunities with breakout strategies for the Nasdaq market? In this episode, I share a few of my best NASDAQ breakout strategies and how you can use these insights to build better trading strategies, including:
- The four components you need to build a breakout strategy
- Setting realistic expectations and out-of-sample performance
- Swing and day trading strategies for Nasdaq
- Challenges and complexities of day trading Nasdaq
- Difficulty in developing short strategies for the Nasdaq
- Building a Nasdaq trading strategy with long and short positions
- Emphasis on diversification and different exit values in a portfolio
- Key takeaways include the difficulty of creating good day trading breakout strategies and the need for dynamic stop loss or exit approaches.
- Plus much more.
For more trading content visit https://bettertraderacademy.com/
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