Strategy of the Month (November 2025): An Intraday Short Breakout on the S&P 500 Future Takes the Win 

In this article, we’ll take a look at the results of the ‘Strategy of the Month’ contest for November 2025. We’ll reveal the winning strategy, along with other excellent contenders selected from among all the strategies you submitted.

We’ll try to provide actionable insights by analyzing the core logic of these strategies, the markets they operate on, and, of course, their performance.

Let us remind you that the ‘Strategy of the Month’ contest is reserved for students of the Unger Academy®. It rewards the best strategy developed by applying the Unger Method™. By submitting their strategies, each student has the opportunity to participate every month and compete for a €1,000 Amazon gift card.

If you’d like to access the code of the winning strategies from this contest, you can subscribe to the Unger Strategy Club. This is one of the Academy’s exclusive services, giving you access to the open code of this month’s winning strategy, as well as all the winning strategies from previous months. On top of that, you’ll also gain access to a monthly live Masterclass on advanced training, and a monthly video with practical insights in which we explain the key rules of the strategies in our portfolio.

But that’s not all. By joining the Unger Strategy Club VIP, in addition to everything mentioned above, you’ll also get exclusive access to the open-source code of all the strategies that participated in the contest and were approved by the Unger Academy coaches.

Let’s now dive into the best strategies you sent us in November.

 

Intraday Trend Following Strategy on the DAX Future (@FDAX)

Among the strategies we received in November but that did not win the contest, we selected the one developed by Roberto, a past winner of several editions of the contest. Our congratulations go out to him nonetheless.

This is a strategy on the DAX with a 60-minute time frame, which uses a classic setup based on breakouts—either to the upside or downside—of a price channel built with the well-known Bollinger Bands.

The strategy also includes the usual trading window, which limits operations to specific hours of the session, along with some proprietary patterns from our internal libraries.

Each trade is closed at the end of the day.

 

Roberto’s strategy has proven to be very solid and effective. Below are the main metrics from January 1, 2010, to November 30, 2025.

The strategy’s performance stands out for its extremely consistent behavior, with only one year ending in a slight loss, and a particularly strong 2025, also supported by the bullish movement of the underlying asset during the past year.

 

Intraday Breakout on the Nasdaq Future (@NQ)

Another interesting strategy was submitted by Matteo.

This is also a Trend Following approach, specifically a breakout strategy on the Nasdaq Future (@NQ). The strategy uses a 15-minute time frame for data1 and a 1440-minute time frame for data2.

The setup is highly reliable and is based on entering positions during volatility spikes in the instrument, calculated using the Average True Range indicator.

 

Strategy of the Month for November 2025: Intraday Breakout on the S&P 500 Future (@ES)

Finally, let’s move on to the winning strategy, developed by Alessandro. Congratulations to him for winning the €1,000 Amazon gift card.

This is an original intraday breakout strategy using a 30-minute time frame. Its originality doesn’t lie so much in the setup, which is based on volatility increases calculated with the Average True Range indicator, but rather in the fact that the strategy operates exclusively on the short side. This is quite a unique feature, especially when we consider that the @ES future, like the @NQ and @YM, is generally characterized by a long-term upward trend.

This system is therefore very interesting because it manages to capture short-term price declines, particularly during the periodic corrections of the index.

As always, the strategy includes standard Stop Loss and Profit Target levels for risk management.

The following figures show an example of trading activity, the main performance metrics, and the full equity line. We’d like to highlight the strategy’s very steady equity curve, especially in recent years, despite being a short-only system.

The best annual net profits, as expected, were achieved in years when the underlying asset declined for some periods, such as in 2022 and 2025.

 

Conclusions

Once again, congratulations to Alessandro, who takes home the €1,000 Amazon gift card for this month, confirming the strength of his development.

We hope this article has been helpful and inspiring!

If your goal is to craft winning trading strategies like these, you’re in the right place. Along the way, you can enter our exclusive monthly contest for Unger Academy students, competing for a €1,000 Amazon voucher.

Want to dig deeper? Join the Unger Strategy Club to access the winning strategies and other top entries. Check out all the benefits at www.ungerclub.com.

That concludes this month’s feature. Join us next month for more innovative trading strategies and inspiration!

Curious about our “Strategy of the Month” contest? This exciting monthly competition is open exclusively to Unger Academy students and rewards the best strategy developed using the Unger Method with a €1,000 Amazon gift card. Interested? Click here to learn more!

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