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Sadly, Van Tharp passed away. In his memory our podcast episodes:

Episode 509.

Episode 247.

Episode 43.

RIP Van. Thanks for your time.

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Michael, I just want to say thank you because your book change my life. I am still trying to be a trend follower trader. I read 2 of your books, The Complete TurtleTrader and Trend Following. Both are amazing. Best wishes for you!

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Ivan T.

Thanks.

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A reader emailed for feedback. I asked:

What system and time frame do you use now?

Response:

Scalping and 15 minute time frame.

Who is the largest global proponent of this minute bar trading nonsense?

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I would like to first thank you for your time and an opportunity that you a giving to whoever is willing to gain financial freedom. I am still a novice trader with an uphill battle in front of me. I’m a Ugandan from East Africa and am also a 23 year old guy. I am an electrician by profession but also I am a fresh graduate so many companies would only take me as a trainee if at all they consider taking me in. Nevertheless am working with a government electrical company. Putting that aside, I am venturing into forex for financial redemption and also some tuition money for my undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. I started watching YouTube and reading various books and that is how I came across your book “The Complete TurtleTrader.” This book further proved to me that I know nothing about trading despite the books I’ve read and the YouTube videos I’ve watched. You recommended your “Trend Following” book and your websites and that is how I came to to your website. I am here to seek knowledge just as the turtles were with their tabula rasa.

Great. Keep pushing.

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My guest today is Jane McGonigal, a future forecaster and designer of reality games created to improve real lives and solve real problems. She is also the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World and SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully. She is the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future, a non-profit research group in Palo Alto, California, currently teaches the course “How to Think Like a Futurist” at Stanford University.

The topics are psychology and neuroscience.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Build our collective imagination so that we can dive into the future and envision, in surprising detail, what our lives will look like ten years from now
• Develop the courage and vision to solve problems creatively
• Take actions and make decisions that will help shape the future we desire
• Access “urgent optimism,” an unstoppable force within each of us that activates our sense of agency

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• Jane McGonigal
• Jane McGonigal on Twitter

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Lack of focus and discipline would be at the top of the list. Too short term oriented is at the top, same thing as lack of focus and discipline I suppose. Probably a lot more and these might not be the worst. Keep jumping around with different approaches. But, I think it all boils down to focus and discipline. Which probably comes from a deep inherent lack of belief and/or success with any one process. Getting better, I think. Best guesses.

This is not uncommon. But there is no getting better without rules.

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