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Getting my wife to understand the following that you have so aptly stated in your email:

“Is there a common trait that every big money trader has, knowingly or unknowingly? Yes. To succeed in the markets they surrender.”

Thank you for understanding.

Brian

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I am a letter carrier with Canada Post. Covid has wiped us out as my wife lost her job and I have been quarantined quite a few times. I have just listened to your book The Complete TurtleTrader as it was a gift to me from a friend. I have $58,000 in RRSP registered account that has been sitting there since 2001. Our retirement has been decimated by covid and we are trying to build for a retirement. I am 52 years old and after quite a few years of delivering mail my body is really starting to feel it. Loved the book.

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My guest today is Sarah Stein Greenberg, the executive director of the Stanford d.school. She leads a community of designers, faculty, and other innovative thinkers who help people unlock their creative abilities and apply them to the world.

The topic is her book Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• What is design?
• Design Inspiration
• The Impact of Pandemic on Students Today
• Creative Collaboration
• What’s In The Fridge?
• Creative Acts for Curious People
• Design Problems

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• Sarah Stein Greenberg
• Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways
• Apple
• Microsoft Corporation
• Stanford d.school
• Lego
• TikTok
• dschool.stanford.edu/books
• @steingreenberg

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I sent you an email prior but you didn’t respond. It was a test for me because you noted in one of you emails “go ahead test me”. Anyway I am reading you book TREND FOLLOWING and am reading the interview with Ed Seykota. You say: “I sometimes feel like my career’s the same way. I don’t necessarily know why, I’m just driven to do what I do and I’m not necessarily sure what I even do, but I just do it.” I cannot explain how attached to this statement I feel but it is refreshing to know that I am reading this book and thinking the same way. I am 40 years old, married for 5 years, just had a baby and work in medical device sales. I went to school for finance, always have loved numbers, am intrigued with the markets but never did anything to pursue working with the markets. I traded on my Scottrade account which as you know is TD and always just purchased things on hear say or stocks that I felt wouldn’t go out of business anytime soon. About 4 years ago I was at a party that wasn’t really my seen but another guy was there and we were discussing the markets and trading. He told me about a few books he read before he started trading and one of those books was yours. It wasn’t until I had a baby and my life completely slowed down that I started reading your book. Now I have money to trade with and I just found the time to read your book. I also purchased your audio book TurtleTraders and listed to it between cases at work. I want to really dive into this way of trading the next 20 years and see where it takes me. However I would love to pick your brain. I know that is a long shot but maybe you will get this email and think you have an opportunity to follow me as I embark on my journey as a Turtle trend trader. The 40 year old that started a family who was average and elevated himself to the next level TREND FOLLOWING.

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Please enjoy my monologue Guess the Word I Beeped with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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Hi Michael, G’Day from Down Under. Hope your day is going well. Thanks for the opportunity to send an email to you. My biggest challenge was getting over the mindset that trend following will work for me. Could I really be successful? Could I really do better than 8 years of fundamental analysis that has returned c. 13% PA trading stocks on the ASX? My former accountant, looked at my returns and proudly said, “You can’t beat the market”. This lit a fire in my belly. I know the answer is yes you can. Being based in Australia, I trade the ASX, because it is what I know (currently). My trend following training here includes Brent Penfold and Nick Radge, both of whom referred to your learnings and experience. I currently trade two trend following strategies, a monthly and a weekly, on the ASX. I am testing another. All of these are long only strategies. If the market is not trending up, then I am not interested in being in it, (I don’t have the capacity to go short anyhow). So, why am I interested in your book and services, Trend Following? To learn new approaches. To add another strategy to my portfolio of approaches. I saw with interest one of your podcast episodes was with Prof Anders Ericsson. I know of his work and have applied those concepts to other areas of my life. I am looking forward to applying the same mindset of improvement with deliberate practice to my trading in my trend following strategies. I’m grateful in this technology era to be able to tap into the wisdom/experience of those that would otherwise be out of reach. Thanks for taking some time to get to the end of my email. Much appreciated, Sean M.

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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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• Trading Technology
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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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Looking back, the biggest challenge I faced was letting go of trying to build perfect systems. It took awhile to understand that the goal was to build good systems that generalize well and then apply them across many markets. Reading that concept wasn’t enough. I had to witness it. I coded up a version of the turtle rules in metatrader a ways back and then threw it away. Then, one day years later, I found it in an email attachment and ran a backtest. The lesson was in the profits I never allowed myself to realize. Looking forward, My biggest challenge is finding the right combination of markets and time frames I have the margin to trade.

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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.

Also jump in:

• 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.