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Just wanted to thank you again for the audio book (TurtleTrader). I devoured it this week and truly enjoyed it. I read a lot of books on either my kindle app or physical copies, but this was my first audio book and it was a fantastic experience for me.

Being a member of your Flagship program, this story really tied it all together for me and think this book should be a mandatory read for your other members after they have read the manifesto. The story was fantastic, but I don’t know if I would have appreciated it as I did without thinking about the rules you laid out in your program while putting myself in the turtles’ shoes. The audiobook and that knowledge of the trend following rules made me feel like I was in the story.

At the end of the day it was the exact kick in the ass I needed to go back to the rules and quit trying to be cute with my adjustments that haven’t gotten me anywhere. Thank you Michael!

Oh! If you ever decide to get a group of Flagship members together for a similar experiment, I’m in man!

Les

Thanks!

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30 minute time frame, using 10X30 EMA for entry exit and 200EMA as trend indicator.

Nitin R.

That time frame is not trend following. Not at all.

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Hi Michael Covel,

I am a trader. Currently, I have a little bit of difficulty with mental management. So I want to know about the method that where I can control my mind.

Thank you.

Trend following. Start with my FAQS below.

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Hey Michael,

My biggest challenge is my discipline and my patience. Also the fact that I have a main job, sometimes has an impact on my trading quality.

I am still in the learning so I am improving time by time. My trading has gotten much better since the start (started last year September), but it’s still only a little profitable.

Best regards,
Lennart P.

But avoid that day trading stuff!

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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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