Free course · Beginner → Intermediate · 6 lessons · 46 min
Breakout Trading: The Complete Course
Our OG strategy — the one on the nameplate. Which breakouts actually pay, which ones are traps, and the month we benched our own.
We're called Breakout Alerts, so this course has to clear a higher bar: it's about the strategy we're named after, and every claim in it has to match our own public ledger. You'll learn what a breakout really is, why most of them fail, and the handful of simple rules — range size, entry distance, time of day — that separate the ones that pay from the ones that pick your pocket.
No cherry-picked screenshots. When we make a claim, we show you the trade count and the results — including the ugly ones, and including the month we pulled our own breakout strategy off the field. That's the rule here: if we wouldn't trade it, we won't teach it like we would.
Lessons
- I7 min·Beginner·QuizWhat Is Breakout Trading? (An Honest Introduction)
Breakout trading in plain English: what a breakout actually is, why they happen, why most of them fail, and the mindset that separates traders who compound from traders who fund everyone else.
- II7 min·Beginner·QuizReading the Range: Which Boundaries Are Worth Breaking
Not every range deserves your attention. How to judge a range in ten seconds — size, clean edges, and whether the line actually means something — with the real numbers on why small ranges bleed and big ones pay.
- III8 min·Intermediate·QuizHow to Trade Breakouts: Entries, Stops, and the Chase Rule
The full breakout entry playbook in plain English: wait for the close, don't chase past 15% of the range, put the stop where the idea is actually wrong, and only take trades that pay at least 2R.
- IV9 min·Intermediate·QuizThe London Breakout Strategy: Trading the Asian Range
Our bread-and-butter playbook in plain English: why the Asian range is the cleanest setup in forex, the one hour that made +34.9R in our ledger, the Monday rule, and the full seven-point checklist.
- V7 min·Intermediate·QuizFalse Breakouts: How Traps Are Built (and Who's Eating Them)
Seven in ten range pokes get pulled back inside. How the trap works, the tells that give it away, and how the failed break that just stopped you out becomes a professional's entry.
- VI8 min·Intermediate·QuizWhen Breakouts Fail: The Month We Benched Our Own Strategy
Sometimes every rule passes and breakouts still lose — because markets go through moods where nothing follows through. The true story of August 2026, when our strategy went 1-for-24 and we took it off the field.
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