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General market conditions, number of setups occurring, etc. could all be used to determine if the market is ripe for breakout trading. Ultimately, position sizing according to when things are working as opposed to when they are not is probably the most simple thing to do.

Then you should sign up with them and let us know how it works out for you.

I am aiming for A and C, though A is TBD.

It is not much different than the bucket shops described in the book "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator". As soon as you start winning they will find ways to cut you loose and potentially not pay you.

If the company loses money when you make money via "funded SIM" it is a scam. It is in their interest for you to fail. You have zero credibility for promoting such companies.

Until you can demonstrate a live money track record, you only have a theory, and theories are a dime a dozen in this business.

IMO, the holy grail of this style of trading is to be able to quickly identify when breakouts are working and when they are not.

Have begun creating a "database" of stocks that have made massive moves as suggested by KK. See attached...I am creating the filenames as such for sequential viewing and the naming convention can later be used by an app I write to query the examples.

Not a good week gents. Currently flat. Sticking to my futures algos for now and will regroup on the discretionary stock trading. Goes to show the value of having other sources of income and investments.

Sorry...couldn't resist.

He won't scale up.....has been trading the same small size for years by his own admission. I don't get it.

What do you mean by "aggressively trading"?

haha....nice one.

Correct...I placed the stop after that low was made.

Stop at 4654.50 on March MES contract.

The current programming has been postponed until a later time. Check back soon for details.

Folks, this has nothing to do with creating a strategy based on moving averages. The moving averages were just a short cut way for identifying stocks that made a big move and when the move occured.

The project is to study stocks "chart behavior" prior to a big move.

This is not a test. Just a way to study stocks that have made big moves. My ability to use this information with my live trading will be the "out of sample" results of the effort.