Breakout Equity Trader (Remote, Funded) — Boston, MA
Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 02451, USA
Listed on 2026-08-16
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Finance & Banking
Trading - Equity / Derivatives / Quantitative, Financial Advisor / Consultant
A breakout equity trader at Maverick enters US equities on confirmed breakouts from defined base structures — typically multi-week consolidations resolving in the direction of the prior trend. The strategy rewards patience (most setups fail screening before they trigger) and decisiveness (when a setup triggers, hesitation costs entry price). It is one of the more classic, well-documented equity strategies, and the discipline required to run it well is significant.
Boston,MA:
Boston is the third-largest asset-management center in the US — Fidelity, State Street, MFS, Wellington, and Putnam are all headquartered here, and the mutual-fund industry as a category was largely invented in the city. Eastern Time alignment with the NYSE is clean, and the academic ecosystem (Harvard, MIT, Boston University) feeds the local quant-trader labor market.
What you'll trade:US equities meeting liquidity and structure criteria — typically mid-cap and large-cap names with clean weekly base patterns. We avoid breakouts in the lowest-quality names where false breaks dominate. ETFs (sector and broad-market) for thematic breakout trades.
Risk framework:Breakout trading loses worst in choppy, range-bound markets where most setups fail. Maverick traders are sized small per individual trigger and rely on hit rate × win-loss ratio to deliver expectancy across hundreds of trades, not on any single position.
Why Maverick funds this role:Breakout trading has produced more career traders than almost any other equity strategy. Maverick funds it because the framework is well-understood and the risk is well-defined - the question is whether a given trader has the discipline to execute it through both the streaks and the slumps.
- Traders patient enough to wait for the actual trigger rather than anticipating it
- People who can cut a failed breakout the same session it fails, without second-guessing
- Candidates with chart-pattern fluency - the visual language matters here
- Traders who track their own data: how many of your setups trigger, how many work, average winner versus average loser
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