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“My biggest challenge would be able to find a set pattern to follow and learn. I don’t want to be bouncing around and following different gurus every week…”

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Hi Michael, I’m brand new to trading with approximately one year of self-study. I have very little trading experience with approximately less than 10 trades in a year. Very little success in trades and seem to be right on target with making every mistake that all new traders make. I’m currently listening to turtle traders on audible. I was led to your TurtleTrader website while looking for the pdf notes to accompany the audible book. I’m really enjoying your turtle trade books and the logic in the book just seems to make sense to me. My biggest challenge would be able to find a set pattern to follow and learn. I don’t want to be bouncing around and following different gurus every week.

Follow no gurus. Find a strategy. That’s it. Read up on trend following.

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“I am the type that will dive deep and design and confirm and commit to a trading model…”

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Hi Michael,

I’m a long time fan, and was deep into system trading with TradeStation, starting in 1997 thru 2000. This was before your books, but I was manic and consumed 3 trading books a week, and would program the models in TradeStation. The market was was my irrational patient and programming TradeStation was my instrument of diagnosis.

The twins were born in 2000 and I made the decision to stop actively trading. Through the intervening years, I would occasionally read an investing book or two. When I came across TrendFollowing, the wisdom and truth of all the information I have been sifting through and compiling for years…was finally and comprehensively collated in one book. Needless to say, I have read every book you’ve written since, and am a big fan of your Podcast. Thank you.

Biggest Challenge = Time commitment. I am the type that will dive deep and design and confirm and commit to a trading model, but with my busy lifestyle, the daily discipline of managing the system (checking the model and executing trades, etc.) is something I know will fall through the cracks. I could probably get up and going with TradeStation again, and I think they allow for system executed trades, but the time, effort, and cost involved are not insignificant. Any recommendations?

Thanks,
Taylor

Many issues here. The question for you: Do you want to trade yourself or have someone trade for you? Start here and here.

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Ep. 994: David Bradford Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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David Bradford

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My guest today is David Bradford, a Eugene O’Kelly II Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Leadership at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he helped develop Interpersonal Dynamics (“Touchy Feely”). David Bradford and Carole Robin taught interpersonal skills to MBA candidates for a combined seventy-five years in their legendary Stanford Graduate School of Business course Interpersonal Dynamics (affectionately known to generations of students as “Touchy-Feely”) and have coached and consulted hundreds of executives for decades. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife of more than fifty years.

The topic is his book Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • David Bradford Stanford Classes
  • David Bradford Father
  • Economic Political Issue
  • Building Relationships
  • Interpersonal Issue
  • Group of Men and Women
  • Giving Feedback
  • Exceptional Relationship Definition
  • EQ and IQ

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“Lately my biggest challenge has been adjusting to the rapid rotations taking place in the market…”

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Lately my biggest challenge has been adjusting to the rapid ‘rotations’ taking place in the market. My go to strategy historically has been buying breakouts of companies that have P/E to G ratios below 3.0 but lately I’ve had better luck ignoring valuation completely. It makes me think it’s 1999 again and I wonder whether I’ll be able to avoid a large draw down if this is another bubble in the equity markets. Any advice is appreciated.

I would this rotations/PR ratios strategy. It’s a dead end. Trend following offers a way out.

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Ep. 993: Trend Following Decision Making with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Trend Following Decision Making with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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“The mindset that stuck with me was that of the entrepreneurial trader…”

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The mindset that stuck with me was that of the entrepreneurial trader. It got me thinking about who my competitors are and where I have my edge. It made me realize that I need a more sound strategy with well-defined rules that are backed by research. What I found most fascinating, and dogma debunking, were the trend following research papers. I was taught the efficient market theory (and never bought it) and cross sectional momentum, but to read studies that truly call into question the EMT and show the driving factor in cross sectional momentum (time series momentum) was very compelling.

Cross sectional and times series momentum are not the same thing. Time series momentum is trend following.

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.