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Interactive Brokers Algo-Trading Guide

Turn your Interactive Brokers account into an algo trading machine in just 3 steps. You’ll need is a Broker and Breaking Equity account linked, and strategy of your choice… Dive into the guide to learn more.

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TD Ameritrade Algo-Trading Guide

You got here so you should have heard about about algorithmic trading. That’s the first and probably the most important step, well done. Let’s dive into what it take to algo-trade with TD Ameritrade. The 1st thing you’ll need is a TD Ameritrade account. You don’t need to be a US citizen to get an account, and […]

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Invite Friends. Get Rewards

It’s time for the community to be rewarded for sharing and talking about Breaking Equity. Now you can share the goodies — invite friends to the platform and we’ll credit each of your accounts with $5.

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Most gains for $SPY happen overnight: a quantitative study

According to the New York Times 2018: most gains for $SPY happen overnight. “If you had bought the SPY at the last second of trading on each business day since 1993 and sold at the market open the next day — capturing all of the net after-hour gains — your cumulative price gain would be 571 percent.”

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Can Just One Trade a Day Be Any Good?

Everyone wants a trading strategy that allows you to make one trade per day, yet you can still beat the market. Here we explore how you could make one.

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Simple Algo for a Bear Market: Shorting the SMA 100 Resistance

A lot of traders are watching and acting Daily SMA 100 and treat that as a resistance level. We wanted to measure how useful that signal is and backtested the strategy on intraday data since 2018. Why a Moving Average People say that a moving average helps cut down the amount of “noise” on a […]

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Most Traders Underperform to a Coin Flip Day Trading Bot

90% of retail traders lose money. Still, day trading is able to attract millions of people in an attempt to beat the market. In this article, I will try to establish a true baseline of bare minimum performance you need to achieve in order to perform better than a coin flip.

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Breaking Equity Welcomes TD Ameritrade

TD Ameritrade, one of the larger online brokers in the U.S., now at Breaking Equity. You asked. We listened. Now algo trade with TD Ameritrade as your broker – build, screen, test, automate, and run algos in minutes.

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The Return of the Active Investors: This Time Stronger

The current stock market holds more drama than your average soap opera. The sudden twists, abrupt drops, and unexpected new all-time highs could easily keep you glued to the screen, obsessively following the candles’ trajectory. It wasn’t always like this, though.

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I can’t code. Can I still algo-trade?

Algorithms account for nearly 73 percent of all U.S. equity trading. But are YOUR trades part of that statistic? Chances are no. Institutional traders, investment banks, and hedge funds are still the dominant users of algo.