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I think the thing I love the most about your podcast is when you bring on the academic liberals and you always bring up obesity and they get offended and act like you can’t state a plain fact. I’m almost to episode 1000 BTW. Started at 1.

Joshua C.

Point made. I do have many smart guests. Some left, some right, but many do rip obesity.

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Hello Michael,

I hope this email finds you well wherever you are. My guess would be somewhere in Asia.

I bought your Trend Following audiobook after listening to Market Wizards and The New Market Wizards. Also bought your Little Book of Trading.

I have been listening to your podcast as well as Top Traders Unplugged.

Thank you for all the material you have made available for all of us. Really appreciate it.

I have been attempting to trade Forex for over 5 years now. Always envisioned riding long trends yet somehow through self-sabotaging, I would end up modifying my plan and look for shorter-term strategies where I could consistently earn 10-20pips.

It would work for a while but eventually I would end up blowing up the account.

I figured if I knew programming I would test different setups and find something that would work but despite the fact that I learned Python and PineScript for trading view I have not been able to find something that can work for me.

Thanks to programming I now help other retail traders with automation at Upwork. I’m one of their ‘Top Developers’ and have earned a little over 20k doing it so at least I believe I have managed to recover my trading loses by helping other traders lose their money. Talk about zero sum game.

Anyhow. I love the philosophy of Trend Following. I haven’t yet gone live with my system. Still testing a few things more in line with risk of ruin, correlations in the portfolio and other aspects of risk management that are yet not very clear to me.

The main reason I ask is due to cost per trade. A 2-3ATR stop loss on an hourly timeframe is certainly lower than on the daily or weekly.

If I’m starting with $500. Is it better to start in a lower timeframe or to trade in the daily but choose fewer symbols/markets? Those are the only two ways I can think of reducing potential costs.

I have yet to hear or read in any of the Trend Following material available anything about time-frames. Trend Following is long-term, sure but are we talking daily as a minimum due to less trending potential in lower frames?

Is my answer “save more money until I have an x amount of capital to afford the daily volatility?” What amount would be the bear minimum?

I want to make this work. Let me know your thoughts if you have time.

Thank you.

Ricardo D.

Trading on hourly time frames with $500 is a dead end. Buy lottery tickets instead. Trend following capital issues.

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My guest today is Amy Shah. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University’s school of nutrition. She helps busy people transform their health using cutting-edge nutritional and medical science. Her proven techniques to heal inflammation utilize the power of the microbiome to help digestion, obtain natural hormone balance and heal food sensitivities. She is a well-known expert on intermittent fasting.

The topic is her book I’m So Effing Hungry: Why We Crave What We Crave – and What to Do about It.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Obesity epidemic
• Eating disorders and body image
• Finding the next miracle drug
• Circadian rhythm
• Dopamine explosion
• Fasting plans

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• Amy Shah
• I’m So Effing Hungry: Why We Crave What We Crave – and What to Do about It
• Alexandra Strachan

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My question for you and I know you will laugh based on all of the above is: Can this style of trading work on a timeframe such as hourly or 4-hour? Or are markets too noisy and open for manipulation on such levels?

Ricardo D.

No. That’s not trend following at that time frame.

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Hi Michael,

I enjoyed your interview with Rayner Teo and really appreciated gaining the sense of hearing two total strangers who “get it” conversing with one another. Kinda like watching two birds of the same species but total strangers to one another simultaneously land on some random branch and start chirping with one another. I have no clue what they’re saying to each other but I have no doubt whatsoever they understand the other loud and clear.

I would like to request the Trend Following steps + video you mentioned at the end of the video.

Thanks, Michael!

Michael L.

Steps and video sent to your email!

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Please enjoy my monologue Avoid the Noise with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio.

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Quick background: I’m a son of two South American immigrants, the first college graduate in my family, and currently doing travel nursing. My goal isn’t to get rich quick but to have financial freedom. I started trading July 2021. Got into stocks at the very top and am now an investor in AMZN and TSLA (not by choice) but because I was told to buy and hold forever. Til this day I still hold both positions down big. I’ve paid my fair share of market tuition since July 2021. Now I’m more active and am learning how to swing trade and currently reading Trend Following. My problem right now is entries and exits. I get in set a stop loss and get stopped then miss the move up. I don’t set a stop loss then get smoked.

Thank you,
Mathew P.

Dump the swing trading. Every link below will set you on the right path.

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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.

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• Trend Following Podcast Guests
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• 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.