1. Some indecision between short term trading (faster signals) v/s long term (slower buy and sell signals). Not sure which gives better returns –> have heard proponents for both but inconclusive in my mind so far. I guess it comes down to personal preference, although would like to know what you think.
2. Which is the best set of indicators: Moving avg crossover (?) if so, the best combination?
3. Have not been able to create a system as I flex between multiple strategies with issue # 1 (short term v/s long term) really throwing a wrench in the whole process.
Look forward to getting some help from a proven expert like yourself.
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I’ve written before. Wanted to say I’ve continued to listen to your podcast and am kind of blown away by how many there are and how good they all are. You’ve got awesome guests and you’re a talented interviewer. So thanks for this free podcast! It’s obvious you love it and your passion comes through to the audience.
A question for you: in the intro to the podcast, you say that you envision a time when we can make money in up, down or sideways markets. Does the “sideways markets” part refer to diversification (if one market is going sideways, another one will be trending, so you can still make money if, say, the S&P 500 is flat). Or is there a trend-following strategy for sideways markets?
Anyway, thanks again for making my daily commute interesting!
I have been reading Larry’s book (love it and love him) and I happened to see a few reviews on Amazon.
One of them said something along the lines of, “rubbish, doesn’t tell you anything about his strategy or what indicators he uses for technical analysis and charts…blah blah blah”.
Just incredible, to have bought the book you would think the guy or gal would actually have some idea of the concept of Larry and trend trading but clearly not and they will take absolutely nothing from the book and all the wisdom that is in there. My guess is they were expecting to be spoon fed an exact strategy that Larry uses (which they probably wouldn’t follow).
In my opinion he actually has done this – run your winners, cut your losses – it’s all there but the reviewer probably wanted something more along the lines of, “when the price crosses the upper Bollinger band and the 20 period moving average is higher than the 50 but no higher than the 100 period while the temperature outside is no higher than 45 degrees but no lower than 42 and the previous evening had a full moon, then and only then should you watch CNBC and go on twitter to find other like minded people to validate your trade. Once these all line up you should then enter the trade”.
Also on your recent podcast with Larry you mentioned how much material you have built up with Larry and you may release a monster episode of it all. Would love to hear this.
I’ve been developing my Trend Following System over the last 10 years (think Donchian center line break out informed by Orderflow) and I’m finally now in the backtesting phase.
In a weird way this is sort of a hobby and like you said in your book my enthusiasm seemed to outlast my learning curve. I originally bought your book to look at practical Risk Management examples and am glad to know that others have found success. Though I have to admit, I personally enjoyed listening to the audiobook version (from Audible) more than reading the book.
Anyways, could I trouble you to send me a copy of that Trend Following presentation? Attached is a copy of my receipt.
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Well…I took an inexpensive “day trading” trading class offered by a young man last year. I was unable to actively trade at the time, but recently started trading full time (meaning studying and trading 8-12 hours a day) in a simulated account 4 months ago. I still have a lot to learn and have only started actually setting stop losses and limits in the 2 weeks.
For about the past month or so I’ve been making about $600-$1500 every day, when I stick to my plan. This does not include the trades I make trying out new trade ideas, but about 2 weeks ago I thought to myself “there has to be something I’m missing to not be able to capture more of what the day has to offer. I would place alerts where I thought the particular stock would go but didn’t trust myself and would close out my trade just to watch it go right up/down to where my alert was placed. At that point I started looking at longer time frames thinking there must be a way to capture more of these up or down trends.
Anyway, I drove from Arizona to Virginia last week and listened to your book trend following and it really made since. I’m relistening to it as I read along, now that I’m home, to hopefully understand it better and figure out what I have been missing.
So…to answer your question: I’m know I’m not getting all that I can get from each trade and I really think it shouldn’t require as many trades in a day, or week as I’m currently making.
