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Turn ATR into the backbone of your trading - the one volatility tool that improves every aspect of your strategy performance.

I run a private hedge fund of nearly 2,500 breakout strategies, and ATR is in every single one. Not most. Every one. These are the 9 plays I actually use - yours to apply today.

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What it does for your trading

Stop using ATR for a stop loss and nothing else

Use it the way my hedge fund does, and three things change for the better.

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Cut the losing trades that quietly bleed your account

Most breakout losses come from breakouts that fire in dead, choppy conditions that were never going to follow through. The ADR Entry Gate screens them out before you ever enter - in my own testing it removed around 100 losing trades from a single strategy.

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An edge that survives live trading, not just the backtest

You get the robust period set and the reasonable-stop rule that stop your backtest from flattering a strategy that falls apart with real money. The edge that looks good in testing becomes the same edge that holds up when real capital is on the line.

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Bring a strategy that "stopped working" back to life

The same strategy is a different strategy in different volatility. Volatility Impact Analysis finds the exact conditions quietly killing your strategy and has you stop trading them - improving the equity curve by removing trades, not adding a single one.

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Yes, this is for you

You can do this even if you've used ATR for years and never got more than a stop out of it

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...you've only ever used ATR for a stop. That's the textbook use, and it's a fraction of what the indicator can do. The plays inside put it to work for entries, filters, exits, sizing and volatility timing.

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...you already use ATR every day. You'll still find unique, hedge-fund ways to apply it that go well beyond the textbook - including the one volatility-timing method I almost didn't share, because I use it constantly.

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...you're not a programmer. Every code snippet comes with a ready-to-paste AI prompt that converts it to your platform - Pine Script, NinjaScript, MQL or Python - in seconds.

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Why ATR is the one indicator I never trade without

Volatility is behind almost everything in trading. When the market's wild, when it's dead, when a strategy that worked for months suddenly stops - that's volatility moving the goalposts. And ATR, the Average True Range, is the cleanest way to measure it.

Get it wrong

The single fastest way to destroy a trading account. It quietly mis-prices every entry, every stop and every target at the same time - and there's no part of your trading it doesn't touch.

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Get it right

You fast-track almost everything else. You've got your hands on the one variable underneath it all - the tool I use for every entry, exit, filter and trade size.

Master volatility and you pretty much master everything.

In this playbook I've done something most people in this industry won't: I've shared the real stuff. The actual settings. The volatility-timing method I almost didn't share. The way I actually run ATR on live capital.

It's 9 plays, start to finish, for $10. My goal is simple - I want you to finish it and think, "I can't believe I got all this for ten bucks." And then you apply it, and it makes you $1,000s.

What's included

Everything inside The ATR Playbook

All three are included, yours to keep - with lifetime access and any future updates.

The ATR Playbook PDF edition

The PDF edition

The premium, fully designed playbook as a downloadable PDF. Read it anywhere, print it, and keep it forever.

The interactive online edition of The ATR Playbook

The interactive online edition

Every video plays right where it belongs, the code copies in one click, and a clean dark-mode reader makes the whole thing a pleasure to work through.

The Code Pack inside the playbook

The Code Pack

Every strategy and filter from all 9 plays in one place - one-click copy, plus a ready-to-paste AI prompt to convert each snippet to your trading platform.

A look inside

The 9 plays, start to finish

Each play is a self-contained, named method - run one on its own, or stack them into a complete ATR system.

  1. 1

    ATR Explained

    Why the simplest volatility tool, nearly 50 years old, still beats every fancy indicator I've tested - and the data that proves it.

  2. 2

    The Three Jobs of ATR

    How one indicator can power your entry, your filter and your exit at once - enough to build a whole strategy on its own.

  3. 3

    The Robust Period Set

    The setting almost everyone "optimizes" that you should never touch - and the quiet account-killer that fixes.

  4. 4

    The 2x/4x Exit

    Exits that breathe with the market instead of fighting it, plus the honest trade-off most courses will never admit.

  5. 5

    The Reasonable-Stop Rule

    The tight stop that makes your backtest lie to you, and the simple volatility fix that forces it to tell the truth.

  6. 6

    The ADR Entry Gate

    The two-step gate that refuses to trade dead, choppy conditions - and stripped around 100 losing trades from one strategy.

  7. 7

    Volatility Impact Analysis

    The losing streak that was never your fault, and how to find the exact conditions quietly killing your strategy.

  8. 8

    The Volatility Sizing Ladder

    Why trading every condition at the same size leaves money on the table - and where to put your biggest size instead.

  9. 9

    Mind the Gap

    The advanced wrinkle almost no retail trader knows: one tweak that hands you a cleaner read than the herd.

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Your ATR Action Plan

A printable one-page roadmap of exactly what to do, in order, once you've read the book. Pin it by your screen and work through it step by step.

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The Robustness Validation Checklist

The one-page checklist I run before risking a cent, to prove an ATR edge is real and not curve-fit - the robust period set, the reasonable stop, the volatility-zone test and the red flags to watch for.

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Plus, every copy includes The Code Pack, built right into your interactive edition - all the code from the book in one place, one click to copy.

Here's everything you get

Everything you get for $10

Everything included - the interactive online edition, the PDF, the Code Pack, the ATR Action Plan and the Robustness Validation Checklist
The ATR Playbook - 9 plays, online + PDF, incl. The Code Pack$30
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60 days. Risk free.

I want to reward action takers - the traders who actually put this to work, not the ones who let it sit in a folder gathering dust. So here's the deal: get the playbook, and run through the plays over the next 60 days. If not even one of them earns its place in your trading toolkit, email me and I'll refund every cent. No forms, no hoops, no hard feelings. For 60 days, the risk is mine, not yours.

About the creator

Meet the trader behind the playbook

Tomas Nesnidal

Tomas Nesnidal

"Mr. Breakouts" · Hedge-fund manager · Creator of BreakoutOS

I'm a full-time trader, and I specialize exclusively in breakouts. I co-founded Breakout Trading Academy and created BreakoutOS, and back in 2017 I launched my own algorithmic hedge fund built entirely around breakout trading. Today I run a portfolio of close to 2,500 strategies across global futures markets.

My work has been featured in Stocks & Commodities, Traders' Magazine, Interactive Brokers, Futures Truth, and dozens of trading publications worldwide. Everything in this playbook comes from that same hedge-fund research - the real settings, the real calibration process, and the real techniques I run on live capital every day.

Got a question?

Common questions

I've used ATR before. Why is this different?

Because most traders only ever use ATR for a basic stop, which is a fraction of what it can do. This playbook shows you how my hedge fund actually uses it - for entries, filters, exits, sizing and volatility timing - backed by the data from thousands of strategies, and applied without curve-fitting. Same tool, a completely different result.

Which markets does this work for?

All of them. I trade futures, so my examples use those, but the principles work just the same on stocks, forex, crypto and CFDs.

Which trading platforms does this work for?

Any platform you like. The code examples are written in EasyLanguage, which runs on TradeStation and MultiCharts. But every snippet also comes with a ready-to-paste AI prompt that converts it to whatever platform or trading language you need - Pine Script, NinjaScript, MQL, Python, and more.

I'm not a coder. Can I still use it?

Yes. The code snippets are in EasyLanguage and pseudocode, and each one comes with a ready-to-paste AI prompt that converts it to your platform - Pine Script, NinjaScript, MQL or Python - in seconds.

What exactly do I get, and how?

Instant digital access to the full 9-play playbook in two formats (an interactive online edition and a downloadable PDF), plus the two bonuses. Everything is delivered electronically, by email, the moment you order.

What if it's not for me?

Then you pay nothing. It's covered by my 60-day "Try Every Play" Guarantee: get the playbook, run through the plays, and if not even one of them earns its place in your trading toolkit, email me and I'll refund every cent. No forms, no hoops, no hard feelings. For 60 days, the risk is mine, not yours.

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