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The exact formula behind nearly 2,500 hedge-fund strategies - plus 11 example trading strategies you can build today, and the AI prompts to code them on any platform.

Most traders spend years hunting for one perfect strategy. I gave that search up a long time ago. Instead I run a simple, repeatable process that builds strategies on demand, and it's produced nearly 2,500 of them in my fund. That process is exactly what you're getting, laid out step by step.

The Strategy Starter Playbook by Tomas Nesnidal
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What it does for your trading

Stop hunting for one magic strategy

Use the exact Mr Breakouts Formula my hedge fund runs, and three things change for the better.

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Build your own strategies on demand

You stop searching for 'the perfect system' and start running a process that produces dozens of strategies. The Mr. Breakouts Formula is five simple parts that combine into endless strategies.

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Turn AI into a real coding partner

AI isn't great at creating unique trading strategies, but it's brilliant at writing code. Every strategy comes with a ready-to-paste AI prompt that converts the strategy code to your favourite trading platform in seconds.

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Learn from real, battle-tested examples

Eleven example strategies across the Dow, NASDAQ, S&P, gold and the Nikkei - including a Dow system that ran six years live. Take the concept behind any one of them and you can build dozens more.

Yes, this is for you

You can do this even if you've never built a trading strategy from scratch

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...you asked AI for a strategy and got rehashed junk. That's expected. But point it at the Mr. Breakouts Formula inside this book and it becomes the best coding partner you've ever had.

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

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...you already build your own strategies. Then use the 11 examples as an idea bank - a different point of initiation here, a clever filter there - and fold the ones you like straight into your own trading.

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"I've learned to test everything, so I was a bit skeptical and it felt like curve fitting. The first thing I did was take the example you gave in class... and sure enough, the methodologies you put forward really work!"

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"It's hard to know who to trust in the trading industry. Luckily, I found Tomas Nesnidal and his courses. He is sincere and can make a big difference for retail traders."

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This is my story

Why I stopped hunting for the perfect strategy

Almost every week now, someone emails me a version of the same question: can AI just build me a profitable trading strategy? I understand why people ask - the tools genuinely are remarkable. So let me give you the honest answer, because it's the foundation of this whole book.

Ask AI for a strategy

You get generic, rehashed stuff scraped off the internet - the same moving-average crossover a million other people have already been handed. It isn't unique, it's not tested for robustness, and it almost certainly has no edge.

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Point AI at a framework

It becomes a tireless coding partner that turns your trading ideas into something you can actually test, today, on whatever platform you use. That's the real opportunity, and it's what this book is built around.

For years I jumped from idea to idea with no real structure. Then, after months of drawing diagrams, it finally fell into place: every breakout comes down to a simple, repeatable formula - the Mr. Breakouts Formula - and it became the engine behind my full-time trading, the thousands of students we've taught, and a hedge fund running close to 2,500 strategies. I still build every new strategy with it today.

No single strategy lasts forever. The framework that builds them does.

In this playbook I hand you that exact formula, then walk you through 11 real strategies built from it - the Dow, the NASDAQ, the S&P, gold and the Nikkei - and next to each one, a ready-to-paste prompt that codes it on your platform.

It's 12 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 go build something that makes you $1,000s.

What's included

Everything inside The Strategy Starter Playbook

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

The Strategy Starter 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 Strategy Starter 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 12 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 formula, plus 11 real example strategies to see it in action

Play 1 is the method. Plays 2 to 12 are example trading strategies using the Mr Breakouts Formula - each with the full logic and a paste-ready AI prompt to generate the code for your trading platform.

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    The Mr. Breakouts Formula

    The five-part method behind all ~2,500 strategies in my fund. Learn this one play and you can build every other strategy in the book yourself.

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    The DowBreaker

    One formula made real: a six-year live Dow strategy, with the complete code and the position-sizing trick most traders miss.

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    The One-Bar Breakout

    The simplest strategy in the book. One rule, one bar, four markets, no optimization.

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    The NASDAQ Range Break

    A genetic algorithm found a "space" calculation no human would design - and it's more robust for it.

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    The Benchmark Breakout

    Stack the tendencies the index hands you for free, and a plain breakout beats buy-and-hold by multiples.

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    The Low-of-Day Breakout

    The day's low as a live trigger line, plus the one-line weekday filter that nearly doubled the average trade.

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    The Ratio Breakout

    Build the space from a ratio of two lookbacks, so you optimize one number instead of two.

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    The Gold Session Breakout

    A market's whole edge can hide in one session, on two days a week. Here's gold's.

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    The Naked Breakout

    Drop the entry filter entirely and let a smarter exit do the work, with far less to overfit.

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    The NASDAQ Pivot Breakout

    The most robust point of initiation we ever tested: yesterday's pivot.

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    The Nikkei Breakout

    The real test of an edge is whether it travels. This one carried from Tokyo to the US indexes untouched.

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    The NASDAQ Short

    Even a market that only wants to go up has a window where the downside pays.

Here's everything you get

Everything you get for $10

Everything included - the interactive online edition, the PDF, the Code Pack and the AI Prompt Pack
The Strategy Starter Playbook - the formula + 11 strategies, online + PDF$30
The Code Pack - every strategy and filter, one-click copy$19
The AI Prompt Pack - a paste-ready prompt for every play, converts to any platform$19
Total value$68
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MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE 60 DAYS
The "Try Every Play" Guarantee

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 exact formula, the real example strategies, and the techniques I run on live capital every day.

Got a question?

Common questions

Can't AI just build me a profitable strategy already?

Ask a chatbot for a profitable strategy and it'll happily spit one out - but what you get is generic, rehashed stuff with no real edge. AI can't invent an edge on its own. What it's genuinely brilliant at is writing and converting code. This playbook gives you the framework that produces the edge, then uses AI for what it's actually good at: coding your strategies onto any platform in seconds.

I've never built a trading strategy before. Can I follow this?

Yes - that's exactly who it's for. Play 1 lays out the whole method in five simple parts, and by Play 2 you're building a real strategy from it with the full code in front of you. Each example after that is the same formula pointed at a new market, so it gets easier as you go.

Which markets does this work for?

All of them. I trade futures, so my examples use the indexes, gold and the Nikkei, but the formula and 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 play comes with a ready-to-paste AI prompt that converts the code to whatever platform or 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 plain 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 12-play playbook in two formats (an interactive online edition and a downloadable PDF), plus the Code Pack and the paste-ready AI prompts. 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.