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Thanks Michael, Appreciate the personal interest. No test required, I trust you (to a point since I don’t know you and talk can be cheap). Biggest challenge? Difficult to simply say “the biggest” since it appears my challenges seem to fluctuate. Early on my biggest hurdle seemed to be lack of knowledge / awareness. The more I know and/or learn about the market (stocks) the more I realize I don’t know. I was missing (still do to a point) a solid working level of knowledge WRT “the” stock market and how it operates. Today, as I learn more, I would say WRT day / swing trading and long term investing (again, primarily stocks) my challenges tend to circle two main areas.

– Lack of knowledge (increasing by the day)
– Psychology (stubborn mindset fighting the tendency to NEED certainty to justify taking action)

How about that for starters?

Dump the day trading and swing trading. Here are a pile of resources to start you right.

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The biggest problem outside of proper entry and exits would be clearly defining a set of rules and mechanically following. For example today I got ate up in the market because I was following the volume but I was following volume on a 5-minute time frame what year was the time frame I was entering on rather than following it on the one hour with my setup came from and I know better.

5-minute time frame? Walk away from that. Start here.

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My guest today is Nicola Clayton is Professor of Comparative Cognition in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Clare College and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Her expertise lies in the contemporary study of comparative cognition, integrating a knowledge of both biology and psychology to introduce new ways of thinking about the evolution and development of intelligence in non-verbal animals and pre-verbal children. She is currently President of the British Science Association Psychology Section.

The topic is human evolution plus corvid communication.

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• The Intelligence of Crows
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• Chimpanzees and Humans
• Dance

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• Jack Horner
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This is [name] from India. Before talking about my trading experience let me tell you about my background. I am a Chemical engineer with almost 12 years of experience in manufacturing process(cement/LWA/steel). I started trading in the year 2015 in intraday(cash/stock future/stock options) and lost my total capital and then stopped trading for the next three years. Again I started short term positional trading in the year 2019 only stock cash segment. Profitability is good but I want to improve the profitability and learn the trend following strategy. Kindly suggest me which is the best book to learn trend following step by step as a beginner. There are so many books available in Amazon with the name trend following. Is there any course I can attend to expertise in trend following strategy?

Run away from the day trading. A dead end. My books and course.

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My biggest challenge is having discipline in my trading like over trading and not managing my account. Also, I find a strategy that works and next thing you know everything goes to hell and it’s like I forgot my trading strategy. I hope this make sense and I appreciate you reaching out.

I would push to get detailed. Find a strategy with proof of concept. Like trend following.

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Dear Mr. Covel, I hope this message finds you well. My name is Bernardo C., I’m from Brazil and I became a admirer of your work after reading your trend following book and listen to many of your podcasts episodes. In addition to opening my eyes to a more efficient and intelligent perspective when it comes to investing and life, having contact with your material gave me critical thinking and enough information to ask the right questions and evaluate the answers, or at least try to do so, without passion and as objectively as possible. My hat’s off to you sir. What an intellectual masterpiece! Anyway. If possible, I would like to receive your further material and video about the first and correct trend following steps. Thank you very much for your time and dedication, sir.

Best regards,
Bernardo C.

Thanks! Video sent.

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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.

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Please enjoy my monologue The Folly of Fundamentals with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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