# Systems On The Road

> The personal site of Tomas Nesnidal ("Mr. Breakouts") — a systematic breakout trader with 25+ years of experience who built 2,041 trading strategies across 34 markets and ran a hedge fund for institutional clients. First-hand, experience-based writing on systematic and automated breakout trading, strategy validation, and the trader lifestyle.

Author: Tomas Nesnidal, alternately known as "Mr. Breakouts". Founder of a systematic breakout hedge fund; author of "The BreakOut Trading Revolution"; creator of BreakoutOS and Breakout Trading Academy. Systems tracked by Striker Securities for 5+ years.

## Cornerstone content
- [Is breakout trading actually profitable?](https://www.systemsontheroad.com/blog/is-breakout-trading-profitable/): A 20-year practitioner's answer, grounded in 2,041 real strategies.
- [Is your backtest lying to you? Spotting overfitting](https://www.systemsontheroad.com/blog/is-my-backtest-lying-overfitting/): How to tell a real edge from a curve-fit one.
- [How I validate a trading strategy before real money](https://www.systemsontheroad.com/blog/how-i-validate-a-trading-strategy/): The exact out-of-sample, cost, sample-size and correlation checks used.
- [My 2,041 breakout strategies](https://www.systemsontheroad.com/methodology/my-2041-breakout-strategies/): The real numbers behind a hedge-fund strategy database.
- [From losses to $1.2 million](https://www.systemsontheroad.com/methodology/from-losses-to-1-2-million/): What the formula did for a trader who started from nothing.

## Free tool
- [Trading System Health Check](https://www.systemsontheroad.com/health-check/): A 12-question self-assessment scoring how robustly a reader builds and runs their strategies.

## About the ecosystem
- The BreakOut Trading Revolution (book): https://www.thebreakouttradingrevolution.com
- Breakout Trading Academy (education): https://www.breakouttradingacademy.com
- BreakoutOS (software platform): https://www.breakoutos.com

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