TOP Trend Breakout Levels
for Trend Breakout Trading
Strategy
The TOP Trend Breakout Levels indicator is a trend based breakout strategy designed to analyze and display the highest high breakout level and lowest low breakout level for a defined look back period. Trend breakout strategies have been popular with traders who have a longer-term focus in the markets.
Designed for Stocks, Bonds, Commodities, Futures, FOREX, and Options trading. TOP Trend Breakout Levels is a powerful tool that can be used for Day Trading, Swing Trading, and for strategic entry Trend Trading! Effective on both intraday and end-of-day price charts including 5 minute charts, 60 minute charts, daily charts, weekly charts, and tick charts to name a few.
Breakout strategies have been one of the most time tested methods to trade market trends. When breakout levels are effectively optimized, a breakout strategy can allow you to effectively enter into a strong trend and manage your position as the trend persists. When strong trends present themselves in markets over time, they can represent the best opportunities to generate windfall profits!
Risk Disclaimer: There is a risk of loss when trading and past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.
In the daily TSLA chart above, you can see that the TOP Trend Breakout Levels were effective in capturing profits from the significant up trend that unfolded over the course of six months. The TOP Trend Breakout Levels in the chart above enabled a trader to participate in the 400% increase in TSLA!
TOP Trend Breakout Levels with Trade Setups
TOP Trend Breakout Levels can be used to trade an underlying trend in any market. When combined with short-term trade setups, traders can enter markets with short-term setups and then participate in the trend by allowing the TOP Trend Breakout Levels to manage their trend position. The following chart provides a good example of this type of strategy.
In the daily Emini S&P futures chart above, you can see how the Hammer Candlestick Pattern can be used to strategically enter the longer-term uptrend defined by the TOP Trend Breakout Levels. This means that you don’t necessarily have to enter a trend when the TOP Trend Breakout Levels generates a trade signal – you can use a shorter-term strategy to enter a longer-term trend and potentially pyramid on your long position.
It is important to note that not every TOP Trend Breakout Levels signal will lead to a large price move or profits. In fact, market trends are the exception rather than the rule. This means that trend strategies will generate false signals if a market is trading in a choppy, sideways environment. However, when trends do unfold in the markets, they can offer exceptional profit opportunities.
Using a Pyramid Strategy with TOP Trend Breakout Levels
The TOP Trend Breakout Levels can be used with a pyramid trading logic. The TOP Trend Breakout Levels can be used to identify a primary trend and a pyramid strategy can be used to generate an entry signal or pyramid signals to add to an existing position.
In the daily TSLA chart above, the TOP Trend Breakout Levels identified the long-term trend and a short-term buy entry pyramid strategy generated trade signals that could be used to enter into the longer-term trend in TSLA. This strategy, along with many others, represents creative ways to trade long-term trends!
We recommend that traders invest time to learn about trends and learn about the strengths and limitations of breakout trend trading. With knowledge and experience, we believe that any trader can learn when to trade with the TOP Trend Breakout Levels for long-term trend trading.
Simple Indicator Settings
We have designed the TOP Trend Breakout Levels indicator to be both powerful and easy to use. Depending on the time focus of the trend you want to trade, the BuyLookBack and SellLookBack parameters can be increased in value to focus on longer-term trends or decreased in value to focus on shorter-term trends. The remaining parameters can be used to modify the colors of the breakout lines and the middle reference line.
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