These 10 articles detail different trading systems, strategies and concepts based on breakout trading. Also, there are special Trading System Labs that illustrate trailing stop and walk-forward testing techniques for breakout systems. For more introductory articles on breakout trading concepts and strategies, see the Basic Breakout Techniques article compilation. A combination set of the Advanced and Basic collections is also available in one PDF file.

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ARTICLE 1: "Volatility breakout system" by Thomas Stridsman (Trading System Lab, Oct. 2002)
Summary: Trading strategy is based on identifying situations when a market is about to burst out of a congestion area and potentially establish a long–term trend. (Tested on a stock portfolio.)

ARTICLE 2: "Futures volatility breakout system" by Thomas Stridsman (Futures Trading System Lab, Oct. 2002)
The system uses Bollinger Bands and a moving average to trade volatility breakouts. (Tested on a futures portfolio.)

ARTICLE 3: "Better breakout trading: The Noise Channel system" by Dennis Meyers (Sept. 2001)
Summary/excerpt: All breakout traders have to deal with the reality of false moves and whipsaws. The noise channel breakout system shows how a filter can improve the performance of intraday breakout trading.

The following discussion analyzes a variation on the simple channel breakout system that uses the latter type of filter to minimize whipsaws on an intraday basis. The strategy is tested on International Business Machines (IBM). The discussion is broken into two parts, covering 1) the system rules and data selection and 2) testing procedures. This will give you the necessary tools for performing similar research and tests on other markets.

ARTICLE 4: "The long and short of it: Noise Channel Breakout System 2" by Dennis Meyers (Oct. 2001)
Summary: This follow–up article to the original Noise Channel Breakout System explores using different filters for long and short trades to see how they improve the performance of an intraday breakout strategy.

ARTICLE 5: "The multibar range breakout system" by Dennis Meyers (Jan. 2004)
Summary: Breakouts of price channels can be profitable––if the volatility is there and you’re on the right side of the trade. This stop–and–reverse system tries to capture intraday trends in the S&P E–Mini contract by recognizing differences in the characteristics of up moves and down moves.

ARTICLE 6: "DeMark variation" by Thomas Stridsman (Trading System Lab, Sept. 2001)
Summary: This system is based on a simple pattern, named TD Carrie, described by Tom DeMark in his book New Market Timing Techniques (John Wiley & Sons, 1997). (Tested on a stock portfolio.)

ARTICLE 7: "Dynamic Breakout System" by Thomas Stridsman (Trading System Lab, Feb. 2003)
Summary: This system enters a long (short) trade if the last closing price is above (below) the highest high (lowest low) of the lookback period. The lookback period changes based on market volatility. (Tested on a stock portfolio.)

ARTICLE 8: "Futures dynamic breakout system" by Thomas Stridsman (Futures Trading System Lab, Feb. 2003)
Summary: A version of the Dynamic Breakout System tested on a portfolio of futures markets.

ARTICLE 9: "Experimenting with exits" by Volker Knapp (Futures Trading System Lab, June 2004)
Summary: This system’s entry technique is simply a breakout above a 55–day high. The more important part of the strategy is a trailing stop technique that is designed to capture as much of the trend as possible by tightening the stop relative to the number of days the trade has been open.

ARTICLE 10: "Monthly breakout" by Dion Kurczek and Volker Knapp (Futures Trading System Lab, March 2004)
Summary: This system delves into the principle of walk–forward testing, where traders use in–sample and out–of–sample data for testing purposes.

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