Study Breakouts That Worked

We realized there’s a major gap in trading education: plenty of people show past breakout winners, but no one provides the most recent successful breakouts in a structured, easy-to-analyze format. Traders need quick access to the stats, chart patterns, and gain-to-risk profiles that actually matter.

So we built BreakoutDB to deliver both historical breakout patterns and the latest real-time winners—all in one place.

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BreakoutDB is built for swing traders—those who typically hold positions for a few days to a few weeks. It's also ideal for anyone looking to sharpen their pattern recognition skills using real-world market examples, not just handpicked winners.

Our selling approach evolves with the market, but here’s the simple version. We generally sell into strength for the first two-thirds of a position, then trail the final third with the 10-day exponential moving average. A typical framework: take off one-third after achieving a 3R gain (for example, if your initial risk is 4%, we trim at +12% and move the remaining two-thirds to breakeven). We sell the second one-third around +20% (5R), and then trail the last portion using the 10-day EMA or an important price level, such as a higher low. We also typically avoid holding positions into earnings to reduce risk.

We use additional rules as well—for example, exiting immediately if a stock gaps down more than 5% at the open.