Archive
Author: Michael Covel
- January 2, 2007Turtle Casting Call: What Do You Know?
A few months back I announced my new upcoming book on the Turtles. The book is in the publishing edit process, but it was a conversation I had today that prompted me…
- December 13, 2006Mental and financial Aspects of Trading: A Story from a Bold Trader
A story from an old bold trader: Hi Michael-I guess in this business there’s a story a day if you don’t live in a cave. Yesterday I had a visitor who wanted…
- December 11, 2006Michael Gibbons on “Trend”
Michael Gibbons of Gibbons’ Trading LLC provides good insight on “trend”: “The reality is, most hedge funds make money on the long side of the market. That is, to get and maintain…
- November 3, 2006Mark Shore White Paper on Skew: Key Trend Following Insights
I had the opportunity to meet Mark Shore last spring in New York City at a presentation. His paper on ‘Skew’ (PDF) will be of interest to many readers: Skewness relates to…
- November 2, 2006Sabermetrician Bill James on Objectivity
I was forwarded this excerpt, which apparently first appeared on Victor Niederhoffer’s site from a contributor. It is Sabermetrician Bill James speaking, from his 1981 Baseball Abstract, on the difference between sports…
- October 20, 2006Brett Steenbarger Article
A good read (PDF) from Brett Steenbarger. An excerpt: It is not at all unusual to find that a trader is losing with a trend following approach because he or she is…
- October 3, 2006Boone Pickens Interview with Michael Covel for TurtleTrader
I mentioned the other day I was meeting with a trader in Dallas. Well, that ‘trader’ corrected me today during the interview. Boone Pickens prefers to be called an investor and doesn’t…