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Volatility Breakout

Strategy overview

Breakouts are a common event that escapes the large majority of market traders

While many traders believe they know how to find a potential breakout and successfully trade it, very few actually do and apply a quantified approach to their strategy.

The Volatility Breakout Strategy is grounded in almost 20 full years of backtested data, and is wholly designed to minimize your overall risk while maximizing your returns.

  • Annual Return: 24.48% (S&P500 return 13.3%)
  • Largest DrawDown: -18.4% (S&P500 DrawDown -18.64%)
  • Sharpe: 2.5

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Strategy performance

Check out the facts and figures behind this trading strategy

7.90%

Last 3 Months %

$12,320.60

Last 3 Months Gain

0.39%

Last 6 Months %

$661.09

Last 6 Months Gain

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Strategy Rules

Volatility Breakout

Universe:
NASDAQ 100 Components

Entry:
Rank all symbols according to latest range trading, the narrower the better, take only the top 20%
Open Long If EMA(25) > EMA(50) and EMA(50) > EMA(120)

Exit:
Close Long If EMA(25) < EMA(50) or EMA(50) < EMA(120)

Once you log into your Alpaca account, go to your account overview page. On the overview page, there should be a little section on the right-hand side that has keys or will let you generate some API keys.
Remember, you need to keep these secret. If your keys are somehow leaked, be sure to reset them as soon as possible.

 

Alpaca Paper Trading Overview Page

Once you can see the keys, copy them into the input fields accordingly.