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View ArticleTrading Food For Thought: September 26 Edition
Interesting reads: Investment Strategies Meant as Buffers to Volatility May Have Deepened It Edge Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class III MIT Quant Guru Andrew Lo on Market’s...
View ArticleTrend Following Drawdowns Happen, But They Are Part of Success
Every trader has drawdowns. Consider a chapter from my book, Trend Commandments: In the early 1990s, Commodities Corporation (a famed trading incubator that taught and bankrolled new traders) invited a...
View ArticleFundamentals and The Death Cross: Confusion Always
Need a refresher about the fundamental mindset? From Trend Following: There are two basic theories that are used to trade in the markets. The first theory is fundamental analysis. It is the study of...
View ArticleShort Term Trading and Day Trading Is No Panacea
Consider an excerpt from Trend Following: When you trade more or with higher frequency, the profit that you can earn per trade decreases, whereas your transaction costs stay the same. This is not a...
View ArticleStick to Your Knitting: Discipline Is Number One
Creating a system and sticking with it is one of the hardest lessons. The struggle is shared across the trading world. An excerpt from “The Little Book of Trading”: If you learn anything from this...
View ArticleLimitations with Day Trading
Feedback in: — Hello, I am interested in learning about Day Trading Russell 2000 Mini Futures. Would any of your products help me with that? Thank you, [Name] — That is not my focus, but if you accept...
View ArticleTrading Food for Thought December 5th Edition
To ponder: Updating Benjamin Graham’s Mr. Market Peter Lynch, 25 years later: it’s not just ‘invest in what you know’ BlueCrest to turn private as fee model wanes Liquid Alternatives: The Next Wave in...
View ArticleIf You Can’t Write It Down… How Can You Trade It?
A great line from one of the oldest running trend followers: “I’m very uncomfortable with black box trading where I’m dealing with algorithms I don’t understand. Everything we do we could do on the...
View ArticleEp. 466: Don’t Worship the Computer with Michael Covel
Subscribe to Trend Following Radio on iTunes Michael starts an email from a listener that starts with praise, then turns around and claims that a top trend following trader has 400 employees and “super...
View ArticleEwan Kirk of Cantab on Trend Following
Excerpt: Our philosophy rests upon two main pillars. The first pillar is: macro, not micro. So we trade macro variables, not stocks and shares and credit default swaps and things like that. We trade...
View ArticleTrend Follower Robert Rotella: Avoid Tinkering
Insights: The firm’s chief researcher Robert Rotella will go back and look at the models to see whether there is anything unsound about the way they are programmed. Generally, there is not. Next, a...
View ArticleNo Memory Trading Courtesy of TurtleTrader William Eckhardt
William Eckhardt, the great trend-following trader, has spoken forcefully about the idea of not having a memory in your trading: “Suppose two traders, A and B, are alike in most respects except the...
View ArticleShort Term Trading and Day Trading Is No Panacea
Consider an excerpt from Trend Following: When you trade more or with higher frequency, the profit that you can earn per trade decreases, whereas your transaction costs stay the same. This is not a...
View ArticleStick to Your Knitting: Discipline Is Number One
Creating a system and sticking with it is one of the hardest lessons. The struggle is shared across the trading world. An excerpt from “The Little Book of Trading”: If you learn anything from this...
View ArticleLimitations with Day Trading
Feedback in: — Hello, I am interested in learning about Day Trading Russell 2000 Mini Futures. Would any of your products help me with that? Thank you, [Name] — That is not my focus, but if you accept...
View ArticleTrading Food for Thought December 5th Edition
To ponder: Updating Benjamin Graham’s Mr. Market Peter Lynch, 25 years later: it’s not just ‘invest in what you know’ BlueCrest to turn private as fee model wanes Liquid Alternatives: The Next Wave in...
View ArticleIf You Can’t Write It Down… How Can You Trade It?
A great line from one of the oldest running trend followers: “I’m very uncomfortable with black box trading where I’m dealing with algorithms I don’t understand. Everything we do we could do on the...
View ArticleEp. 466: Don’t Worship the Computer with Michael Covel
Subscribe to Trend Following Radio on iTunes Michael starts an email from a listener that starts with praise, then turns around and claims that a top trend following trader has 400 employees and “super...
View ArticleEwan Kirk of Cantab on Trend Following
Excerpt: Our philosophy rests upon two main pillars. The first pillar is: macro, not micro. So we trade macro variables, not stocks and shares and credit default swaps and things like that. We trade...
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