School Run Strategy
Strategy 1 · start hereTom's signature setup. The complete path: proof → lesson → practice → the full test. Begin with the Demo.
Can you execute like Tom?
One single exercise, on a real DAX day: you see only the first 30 minutes, you decide, then you drag the slider and play the day forward. The verdict comes with numbers — MAE, MFE, result at the close.
Tom Hougaard · School Run StrategyThe numbers before the strategy.
Why listen to Hougaard? His real broker statement, analyzed: +£78,717 in 9 months, 3,370 trades, plus our independent backtest of the SRS on 17 years of DAX data.
Tom Hougaard · School Run Strategy ProofProfit factor 1.35. Zero losing years.
The full report: equity curve, year-by-year, and the honest negative — the one stop variant that loses money over 17 years. Numbers nobody else has published, ours to verify.
Tom Hougaard · School Run Strategy New researchTell a trend day from a range day, on the open.
From our 17-year study: read the first hour's expansion and breakout, predict the day's character, see how you compare. A tilt, not a prophecy — and honest about being wrong half the time.
Tom Hougaard · School Run Strategy NewLearn it step by step, hands on.
The guided interactive course: short lessons, immediate checks, click-the-chart tasks and order-placement drills — one concept at a time, with your progress saved. Finish it, then train.
Tom Hougaard · School Run StrategyThe full rules, the logic and the numbers.
The lesson itself: what the SRS is, why the first 30 minutes matter, the rules step by step, a worked example on a real day and the mistakes that kill the strategy. ~12 minutes, then you practice.
Tom Hougaard · School Run StrategyThe SRS rules, as reflex not memory.
Quick exercises on the fundamentals of the strategy: the signal bar, placing the bracket orders, the stop. Short, scored repetition until the rules become automatic.
Tom Hougaard · School Run Strategy40 exercises. Real days. Your score.
The serial test: 40 exercises cut from real history, with score, streak and an explanation for every mistake. This is where you find out whether you recognize the setup under pressure, not just in theory.
Tom Hougaard · School Run StrategyAdvanced School Run
Strategy 2 · graduationThe sharper variant: 4th-bar signal, razor-thin bracket stop, a 22% win rate that still wins. Master SRS first.
A 22% win rate that still wins.
The sharper variant: 4th 5-minute bar, razor-thin bracket stop. You lose 8 in 10 — yet the average win is 4.3× the average loss. The purest test of "Best Loser Wins". Learn it step by step, hands on.
Tom Hougaard · Advanced School Run ProofPF 1.28, 0 losing years — and the tight stop that fails.
17 years, 6,909 trades. The full report: how a 22.7% win rate stays profitable, the 35-loss streak, and the honest negative — the too-tight stop that bleeds money.
Tom Hougaard · Advanced School RunTrade the sharpest edge. Lose small, win big.
38 real Advanced SRS days with the bracket stop. The purest test of "Best Loser Wins" — can you take the tiny losses calmly and be there for the runner that pays for all of them?
Tom Hougaard · Advanced School RunFoundations
Risk & psychology · every strategyThe 90% nobody trains: sizing that survives the streak, and the mindset of the best loser. Strategy-agnostic.
Size your trade — then survive the streak.
Tom's position-size formula, live. Then the honesty check nobody runs: can your account take 46 losses in a row without breaking you? Sizes for the real worst streaks from 17 years of data.
Foundations · RiskCan you make the hard call under pressure?
8 scenarios from Tom's real 2025 statement — the −£10,856 day, the 24-loss streak, the winner you want to cut. Every one has a "feels right" answer and a "best loser" answer. They're rarely the same.
Foundations · Psychology Critical thinkingTell a track record from noise.
Run the simulation yourself: an edgeless coin flip "looks like a winner" a third of the time over 18 trades. The skill that protects you from every over-hyped strategy you'll ever be shown.
Foundations · Critical thinking The honest failureWe tested a guru strategy. It failed. We published it anyway.
Tom's Rule of 4, tested over 195 NFP events (he had 18): profit factor 0.97, half the years negative. No edge on the DAX. The losing backtest nobody else would ever show you — because our numbers are real.
Foundations · Independent research ResearchDoes strength beget strength? A nuanced truth.
30,000 opening bars tested. Tom's "buying begets buying" is real but tiny — no tradeable edge, just a faint exit-bias. The honest middle ground between a winner and a failure.
Foundations · Independent research New · the missing variableThe same rule made $15,400 — and lost $9,300.
Identical entries, identical exits, two years of live broker data. On the Nasdaq it printed money; on the DAX it bled. One number changed: the spread. Drag the cost slider and watch a real 6,780-trade edge die in front of you — including ours.
Foundations · Cost & edge Research · pending dataTom's home-market setup, on real FTSE days.
His FTSE strategy hangs on the first 5-min bar after the 08:00 open. Step through 60 real FTSE days and watch it arm and trigger. Honest label: a pattern viewer, not a proven edge — the same logic loses on 17 years of DAX.
Tom Hougaard · FTSE (independent research)