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Warren Buffett Reaps $10 Billion From Crisis-Era Investments

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A comment from Warren Buffett:

“In terms of simple profitability, an average investor could have done just as well investing in the stock market if they bought during the panic period. You make your best buys when people are overwhelmingly fearful.

Without bailouts Buffett’s firm doesn’t survive.

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What Do Blackberry & Enron Have in Common?

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Feedback on the class action law suit against Blackberry:

Mike, a class action lawsuit has been launched in New York against BlackBerry and its top two executives for misleading investors over the last 13 months. Anyone who looks at the chart will realize that none of the plaintiffs are trend followers. In fact, if you had been trading BlackBerry for the last eight years as a trend follower, you’d be sending them a bouquet rather than suing them.

Regards,
DG

Thanks. Great point. Reminds me of Enron.

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Football Out, Nerfball In & Weenies Multiply

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A sad excerpt from an article:

They were just informed that during recess, football is out and Nerf ball is in. Hard soccer balls have been banned, along with baseballs and lacrosse balls, rough games of tag, or cartwheels unless supervised by a coach.

First dodge ball and now “catch” is banned.

Soon kids will be wearing helmets to simply walk.

Watch.

It will happen.

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Ep. 166: Harry Binswanger Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Harry Binswanger
Harry Binswanger

My guest today is Harry Binswanger, an American philosopher, writer, and Objectivist as a long-time associate of Ayn Rand.

The topic is his article on the value of 1%.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Being inspired by the 1%, and why his article caused such an uproar
  • The nature of trade
  • Envy and jealousy
  • Understanding where entrepreneurs start and how wealth is created
  • The bailouts of 2008
  • Wal-Mart and its many innovations
  • Why money isn’t the root of all evil
  • Seeing Ayn Rand’s work woven into the cultural fabric
  • Statism
  • Navigators and the new health care laws
  • Why the wealthiest counties in America all surround Washington, DC
  • Why we’re at the “tipping point” in society today
  • Thoughts on Ron Paul vs. the principles of Ayn Rand

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Should You Invest in Biblical Finance such as Suggested by Dave Ramsey

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An excerpt:

Ramsey is overtly religious, and his for-profit Financial Peace University is billed as “a biblically based curriculum that teaches people how to handle money God’s ways.”

Found this intro:

Please don’t add your religious insights to your investing insights. Ramsey is wise to talk of cutting up your credit cards, but biblical finance such as outlined in the Dave Ramsey Five Foundations, is not the wise path.

Dave Ramsey Photograph
Dave Ramsey preaching the 5 Foundations of finance.

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Picking which shares to buy and sell is not necessarily about being right all the time.

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From an article:

This leads into the second finding: picking which shares to buy and sell is not necessarily about being right all the time. Even the best fund managers are frequently wrong, and Lagrange estimates his team are correct between 45 and 65 per cent of the time. The trick is to make more money when they are right than they lose when they are wrong. From Savage’s analysis, he says his team makes 1.1-1.2 times more when right than they lose when they are wrong – enough to make good money even if their odds of being right are no better than 50/50.

Trend following 101.

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Trend Following Internships

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Dear Michael, I would like to express my interest in an internship with Trend Following. I am a loyal follower of yours and based in Australia. I have traded many systems over the past and learned from the so called professionals thus falling into the guru trap. Although I have spent a lot of money on this education and lost money trading the systems, I can say it has all been worth it as my persistence has lead me to your books and teachings. Unfortunately I never subscribed to any of the Trend Following trading systems, but I had been saved in the sense that I was able to design my own simple trend following system after being convinced about this through reading your books and listening to your podcasts. I don’t worry about news or missing any piece of data, I just do what my system indicates and life is so simple. I could not care if price is moving up or down, I just want a piece of the major trend. So thank you for all the work over the years and most of all for sharing your research with all of us. I can truly say that I would love to be involved with Trend Following in some way. As a professional accountant in my previous career, I was involved in the development and mentoring of young accountants for my firm. I really believe the nurture trumps nature mantra, as this is where I experienced it first hand. So therefore what you are doing is giving so many people new opportunities which most of us always believed was for the select few talented individuals. I would like to be part of this crusade and as part of my own development as a trend trader, would relish an opportunity to contribute within the Trend Following community. Perhaps you would consider nurturing a couple of disciples and unleashing us to the world as your own turtles? I would therefore appreciate it if you would consider my application for internship either to assist in trading or some form of writing. Although I am based in Australia, I am sure that technology breaks down any barriers and being able to work under your guidance would probably be the pinnacle of my achievements in life. Yours sincerely, Charles

Thanks Charles for the very pleasant note. Details soon.

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