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My biggest challenge is emotional balance.

Rakesh P.

What is your exact strategy and time frame now?

Trend following—Buying pullbacks above 200d EMA. 5 min for short term. 1 day chart for investing.

Buying pullbacks is not trend following. 5 minute anything is not trend following.

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Hi Michael, Thanks for your interview with Tom Basso. Enjoyed listening to it.

I met with my finance guy yesterday, and with that recent visit in mind, it dawned on me. The financial industry can’t acknowledge trend following to work. Why? The majority of people in the industry would be lost. They don’t know how to do it. The industry has to maintain the “on average” thinking, meaning “on average” the markets go up over time. It’s crazy how their answer is “they always go up.”

Take care,
Matt P.

True.

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• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
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Hello Michael,

I am new to the trend following approach. I am listening to your Trend Following book currently. What I have not seen or heard just yet are the time frames recommended and the signals some trend followers like to use to identify a trend, find an entry and identify when a trend is over. Those are my main challenges to understanding the approach currently. I day trade and swing trade Crypto now but I want to expand to other asset classes. I have enjoyed listening to your book so far and want to know more about trend following.

All the Best,
Richard D.

Trend following is not day trading. Trend following is not swing trading. Trend following is daily or weekly bars.

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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
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

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Where to consistently set the stop loss [is my challenge]. I work off of having the 4H in line with the 15M and in line with the 1 minute, but sometimes when the 1 minute does a trend change, price goes and stops be out before going to my take profit area.

Best regards,
Jake G.

What you are currently doing is not trend following. And now for the blunt truth — what you are doing will never work. I can help when you are ready.

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• 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.

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My guest today is Matt Dixon, the Chief Product and Research Officer at Austin-based AI and Machine Learning Venture Tethr. Matt was a Senior Partner at Korn Ferry Hay Group and was a Group Leader in the research and advisory division of CEB, now Gartner. He is a sought-after speaker and advisor to corporate leadership teams around the world on topics ranging from sales effectiveness to customer service and customer experience.

The topic is his book The JOLT Effect: How High Performers Overcome Customer Indecision.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• How do we study sales?
• Advantages of virtual sales calls
• How to deal with problems in the buying environment
• The decrease in productivity from a team, organizational, and sales perspective
• What does it take to beat the status quo?
• The purpose of changing sellers’ behavior
• JOLT acronym
• The difference between dealing with status quo and indecision

Mentions & Resources:

• Matt Dixon
• The JOLT Effect: How High Performers Overcome Customer Indecision
• Neil Rackham
• Ted McKenna
• 7 Best Quantitative Finance Books You Should Have
• Matthew Broderick
• Tom Sheppard
• Barry Schwartz
• Bob Tobin

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The biggest challenge I face is finding the time for research.

All the best,
Justin L.

Trend following involves no research. There is no fundamental research. You use price action rules.

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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
• 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.