Breakout Equity Trader (Remote, Funded) — Los Angeles, CA
Stockton, San Joaquin County, California, 95201, USA
Listed on 2026-08-16
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Finance & Banking
Trading - Equity / Derivatives / Quantitative, Financial Advisor / Consultant, Financial Analyst
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.
Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles is the second-largest financial center in the country by a number of measures — Capital Group, TCW, PIMCO, Oaktree, and dozens of independent funds are headquartered in the LA/Pasadena/Newport Beach corridor. Pacific Time means the market opens before most of LA wakes up; the trade-off is a clean afternoon free by 1pm. Many of our West Coast traders prefer this rhythm explicitly.
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
- 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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