Remote Funded Breakout Equity Trader — Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Maverick Trading
Trade confirmed breakouts and base completions on US equities.
Trade the open from California, be done by lunch — the time zone trade is one of the cleanest in the country.
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.
Trading from 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.
Local ecosystem: UCLA Anderson, USC Marshall, Caltech, and a deep entertainment-finance ecosystem.
Time zone: PT — the NYSE opens at 6:30am local for traders based in Los Angeles.
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.
Day-to-Day
- End-of-day scans for setups approaching defined trigger levels
- Pre-market: build the day's watchlist of potential trigger candidates
- Intraday: take confirmed triggers per the playbook; pass on failed triggers without revisiting
- Manage open positions with trailing stops; cut failed breakouts (closing back inside the base) immediately
Risk Profile
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.
Who Succeeds in This Role
- 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
Why This Role Exists at Maverick
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.
What Maverick Offers
- Trade firm capital — no personal capital at risk
- 65%–90% profit split based on performance tier
- Performance-based capital scaling, no upper cap
- Professional training and mentorship from active traders
- Fully remote — trade from anywhere with reliable internet (US applicants)
- Monthly ACH payouts
- No challenge accounts, no evaluations, no monthly fees
About Maverick Trading
Maverick Trading is a proprietary trading firm founded in 1997. We allocate firm capital to disciplined traders and scale buying power based on performance. We are not a brokerage, we do not run challenge accounts, and we do not sell evaluations. We profit only when our traders profit.