Breakout Equity Trader (Remote, Funded) — San Diego, CA

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.

San Diego, CA: San Diego has a smaller financial industry than LA or San Francisco but compensates with a strong biotech/pharma cluster, a thriving tech sector around Sorrento Valley, and one of the most attractive lifestyle profiles in the country. Pacific Time means a 6:30am market open and an early-afternoon close — many of our San Diego traders explicitly chose the city for that rhythm.

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.

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.

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