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I would like to first thank you for your time and an opportunity that you a giving to whoever is willing to gain financial freedom. I am still a novice trader with an uphill battle in front of me. I’m a Ugandan from East Africa and am also a 23 year old guy. I am an electrician by profession but also I am a fresh graduate so many companies would only take me as a trainee if at all they consider taking me in. Nevertheless am working with a government electrical company. Putting that aside, I am venturing into forex for financial redemption and also some tuition money for my undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. I started watching YouTube and reading various books and that is how I came across your book “The Complete TurtleTrader.” This book further proved to me that I know nothing about trading despite the books I’ve read and the YouTube videos I’ve watched. You recommended your “Trend Following” book and your websites and that is how I came to to your website. I am here to seek knowledge just as the turtles were with their tabula rasa.

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My guest today is Jane McGonigal, a future forecaster and designer of reality games created to improve real lives and solve real problems. She is also the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World and SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully. She is the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future, a non-profit research group in Palo Alto, California, currently teaches the course “How to Think Like a Futurist” at Stanford University.

The topics are psychology and neuroscience.

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• Build our collective imagination so that we can dive into the future and envision, in surprising detail, what our lives will look like ten years from now
• Develop the courage and vision to solve problems creatively
• Take actions and make decisions that will help shape the future we desire
• Access “urgent optimism,” an unstoppable force within each of us that activates our sense of agency

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Lack of focus and discipline would be at the top of the list. Too short term oriented is at the top, same thing as lack of focus and discipline I suppose. Probably a lot more and these might not be the worst. Keep jumping around with different approaches. But, I think it all boils down to focus and discipline. Which probably comes from a deep inherent lack of belief and/or success with any one process. Getting better, I think. Best guesses.

This is not uncommon. But there is no getting better without rules.

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Thank you. I have read all of your books and listened to your podcasts (which are excellent).

I spent 36 yrs in Institutional Equity Sales before I retired. I covered T Rowe, States of Ga, Tn, NJ, Blackrock, Goldman Sachs Asset,etc… All were very smart folks, as were my analysts. In the end, I felt like I spent most of my career telling people to buy a declining stock (defending our position), and explaining why other names were too expensive (as they climbed for another year).

As a salesman I had too many internal constraints to trade (i.e. mandatory holding periods, prior approvals, etc). I manage my own money now. I have tried many different styles— day trading, individual stocks—value and growth, William Oneil (CANSLIM , chart patterns, etc.). None work for me. Almost all of them require sitting at the desk looking at squiggles on the screen all day or doing large amounts of research on things I will never know as well as thousands of other people.

I have read almost every book written on investments (at least the ones everyone on TWTR talk about). Stan Weinstein’s (from the ’80’s) stuck with me. Use weekly moving averages (10 and 30) to determine the trend, approximate good entry points, and exit points when the trend ends. This made perfect sense to me, but the drawdowns were too much. So, I modified it to 10 and 30 d ema, and use Heiken–Ashi charts to smooth out the trends. This works best on ETF’s vs individual stocks. It works particularly well on the Q’s, and broader indexes. I backtested this by hand, going back to 2000. The strategy works. But, I am looking for other trend following strategies so I am not so reliant on one thing. Hence, my interest In you.

I have plunked down many thousands of dollars trying to learn other peoples methods. Its not lost money as I have incorporated bits and pieces into my way of thinking, but none have made me any serious money primarily because the other systems do not fit my personality. I think Trend Following makes the most sense to me. I am more deliberate now in “spending for help”. If I am completely convinced, I don’t mind spending the money. It takes me a while to get there.

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Please enjoy my monologue They Are Coming for the Market with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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Hope this message finds you well. I never traded before. I am 55 years old and really behind in my retirement finances. I work 6 days a week and trying to find a new way to produce extra income to be able to free time for my family life and be able to save for retirement. Still have two young daughters. Any suggestions? Can this really work in my case? Thank you in advance for your help.

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My guest today is Vitaliy Katsenelson, a respected value investor, Vitaliy was dubbed “The New Benjamin Graham” by Forbes. He shares his often contrarian views on investing in Barron’s, Financial Times, Forbes, Christian Science Monitor and other premier financial publications. He has published “The Little Book of Sideways Markets” and “Active Value Investing.”

The topic is global macro views.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Great Recession
• COVID-19 and Human Behavior
• Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• The Russia-Ukraine Crisis
• China and United States
• The Russian Government
• Censorship on the Internet
• Shelves are Empty
• Cryptocurrency and NFT’s

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• Vitaliy Katsenelson
• COVID-19
• Inflation
• Warren Buffet
• NFT’s
• @vitaliyk

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