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Hello sir,

I am J. from India. I have watched your face to face podcast with Vivek Bajaj. The concepts that you said in it were amazing. And after that I found your website and listened to your podcasts and interviews which are informative.

From the past few years, me and my brother had developed a trend following system for intraday based on structural pivots and we back tested it. It showed good results and we started implementing it in live markets. But for the last eight months we got huge drawdown more than what we got in backtest results. Then we modify the strategy from structural pivots to previous day high low and backtested it for past 6 years it gave better results than previous method and gave profits in those eight months where previous method was in loss. From July we started new method in live markets and it was good.

Our trend following method has a risk to reward of 1:2.3 and accuracy of 40% from 2018 to 2020 August and RR of 1:2.3 and accuracy of 36% from 2020 Sep to till now. So do you think thank that in coming months the strategy will lose its edge or it is just a period with less accuracy? And also we are testing this method in S&P500 and nasdaq–their results are excellent.

J. K.

I have no idea if your strategy is valid, but testing on only two stock indexes is a red flag! And of course, day trading is an even bigger red flag.

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Hi there Trend Following,

I recently purchased the book “Trend Following: How to Make a Fortune in Bull, Bear, and Black Swan Markets” and saw the offer inside the book about sending in my receipt in return for obtaining a free copy of your interactive trend following presentation, which I would like to receive. My receipt is attached.

Enjoying your book very much.

Thank you!

Adrian S.

Welcome!

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Hi Michael,

Just wanted to say thank you very much for building your nice great courses. These are really great and very helpful to common people like us. [The course is] helping us to build a much better financial future ahead.

Hope to do well on these. Definitely excited to embark on this journey. Have a pleasant week ahead.

Warm Regards,
A. H.

Thanks!

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My challenge [on trading] after 13 years of consistent failure to make money is to convince myself that I can win. So much depends on it (not my personal well-being!).

Charles G.

What strategies do you use?

Way back 2009, I started with a local (Melbourne) acquaintance trading 5 minute charts. He seemed to know what he was talking about and claimed to be making money. He ran a 2 week course for his friends— some mutual and I tagged along. No charge. Nobody made $ but I had caught the bug. Then I used/tried Bill Poulos various intraday methods. Bought lots of his DVDs + book courses. Couldn’t win. Lost a few hundred grand. Then tried Justin Bennett (Daily Price Action). No luck. More losses. And there were one or two “cowboys” along the way and lots of books. All favoured trading with the trend as I recall. Their methods all had their names – some proprietary – but all used the standard terminology for candlestick patterns and trigger bars. About 20 months ago I was hit by a car while riding my motorcycle and that triggered a heart issue resulting in open heart surgery. Didn’t do much trading after that— lack of energy, memory issues but motivation after years of no success also plays its part I’m sure. I’m now “getting back on the horse”. Body is good – and hopefully the brain!

You probably didn’t need all that but, what the heck, this time we win!

I would ditch all of those trading “techniques” and go trend following.

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Hi Mike,

Just wanted to reach out with a brief introduction and some feedback and suggestions.

I am a regular guy with a regular job from Australia that has a keen interest in continually improving my investment performance and other aspects of my life.

I came upon your work and website about a year ago, most likely as a result of your work on the Turtles, and purchased the Complete Turtle Trader and Trend Following. Both were great reads and remain regular references in my evolving journey moving forward.

I also am a subscriber to your Trend Following Podcast, listening to the recent releases as well as trying to work through the years of archived material. The monologues have recently become my favourite— leaves me pondering and reflecting on particular issues around us.

Your work has been very educational, inspiring and motivating. I have the learnings to confirm changes in direction in not only my trading direction but also personal life. I am looking at developing a lifestyle that will allow me to be more nomadic and portable— currently researching, preparing and working to make the necessary changes in the foreseeable future. My tickets to Vietnam have recently been booked. I will check out Ho Chi Minh and perhaps Da Nang, Hoi An and Nha Trang on this occasion and prepare for a much longer excursion next year back to Vietnam and several neighbouring countries. I have been thinking about it for some time and finally pulled the trigger when I saw the opportunity.

I always ask myself “If not you, then who? If not now, then when?”.

You often speak about serendipity being one of your favourite words. And indeed it is. Word and meaning.

I have recently come across a word that I found interesting in many aspects of life. Sophistry or Sophism.

Perhaps you have seen the following [links]. They may be of interest to you as future content for a podcast.

1. https://www.gurwinder.blog/p/why-smart-people-hold-stupid-beliefs
2. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/against-idea-laundering/
3. https://https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/against-idea-laundering/hikinginthelight.us/the-danger-of-idea-laundering-mein-kampf-and-social-justice/

I hope this email makes it directly through to you and in its entirety. Thank you for your work and contribution and impact in my journey and I look forward to your ongoing work.

Kind regards,
J. R.

Thanks for the great feedback.

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How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

Also jump in:

• Trend Following Podcast Guests
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

Trend Following is for beginners, students and pros in all countries. This is not day trading 5-minute bars, prediction or analyzing fundamentals–it’s Trend Following.

Subscribe to Trend Following Radio on iTunes

Please enjoy my monologue No Targets with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio.

Listen to this episode:

• Listen to this podcast on iTunes. (Please leave a rating!)
• Listen on Spotify.
• Libysn RSS.
• Download as MP3 by right-clicking here and choosing “save as.”
• Free Video.

Want to learn more Trend Following? Watch my video here.