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Hello Michael,

The biggest challenge I face with trading is, timing the entries. I get kicked out of the market, and then the trend goes as expected. Also, moving the stop Loss as the trade goes with the trend.

Thanks,
Yasaswi

It’s much more than that. You need:

• Exact rules for selecting your tracking portfolio.
• Exact rules for entering your trades at the right time.
• Exact rules for exiting your trades with a loss.
• Exact rules for exiting your trades with a profit.
• Exact rules for how much money to bet on each trade.

See my FAQS.

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Hello Michael,

My biggest challenge since COVID-19 has been short-lived trends. I trade equities, and I find trends only to see them end abruptly, soon after I’ve found them. Most recently, I’ve seen this with Hovnanian Enterprises (HOVN). The stock took off in January, and now is in decline apparently because of rapidly rising construction costs. Since COVID-19 started, there have been many sudden disruptions to trends. It’s been a bevy of black swans!

Best regards to you,
Brett

I see it more than that. A lot more. You need:

• Exact rules for selecting your tracking portfolio.
• Exact rules for entering your trades at the right time.
• Exact rules for exiting your trades with a loss.
• Exact rules for exiting your trades with a profit.
• Exact rules for how much money to bet on each trade.

See my FAQS.

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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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My guest today is Tim S. Grover, the CEO of Attack Athletics, Inc., which he founded in 1989, and author of the international bestseller Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable. World-renowned for his work with Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and thousands of athletes and business professionals, he appears around the world as a keynote speaker and consultant to business leaders, athletes, and elite achievers in every field.

The topic is his book Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Michael Jordan 1982
• How an Athlete Should Train
• Michael Jordan Training
• The Winning Mindset
• Winning Demands Obsession
• Creating Balance
• What is Mamba Mentality?
• Rest at the End not in the Middle by Kobe Bryant
• Start Managing Focus and Stop Managing Time

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• Tim Grover
• Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness
• Michael Jordan
• Boston Celtics
• Chicago Bulls
• Kobe Bryant
• timgrover.com
• @ATTACKATHLETICS

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Mr. Covel,

I am a long-time listener of your podcast and have read two of your books: ‘The Complete Turtle Trader’ and ‘Trend Following Mindset’. Both are 5-star, terrific books. ‘The Complete Turtle Trader’ being one of those books that I can look back on in my life and remember exactly what I was doing and what was going on in my life as I read it. And, more importantly can tell the difference in my life since reading it. A few minutes ago I finished your latest podcast ‘Amplify the fiction. Hide the truth.’ And I just feel compelled to write to you and thank you. To thank you for always amplifying the truth. Or for just amplifying how you truly think and feel. Maybe it’s not the “truth”? I think that it is because I think and feel mostly the same way. Maybe we’re wrong. Maybe we’re not. But where we are more right than wrong is in the how when we are proven wrong we are able to admit it and move on to what is right without much resistance. Anyway, in a world where there aren’t many of us left. At least many of us with an audience, I want to say again THANK YOU! And, if there is anyway I could be of assistance with any of your work I would love to work with/for you. As an unpaid intern or whatever. Just collecting data or doing any of the tedious, remedial crap you don’t enjoy doing but have to do. I know you probably don’t need any help with any of that but just offering if you ever do. I’m a trader. Have been trading for a little over four years now. I am from a small town in Kentucky so I don’t have a chance of finding anyone around here with any knowledge of the markets or this world at all. Anyway, thanks again for everything you do Mr. Covel!

Thanks!

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I don’t know if you remember me from our last email correspondence. But since our last discussion about my trading system plan and reading your emails, I have now seen the downside to intraday trading and the “in your face” common sense benefits of long term trend trading. I am currently reading your book Trend Following and have gotten comfortable with the system of waiting for an entry, placing a trade and letting it play out for as long as the trend goes. Now I have to research the market and find clear trends and entry points as well as establish exit points. I also need to try and save and scrape up some money so that I can purchase your Systems and Flagship program. I genuinely appreciate the email correspondence and your daily emails, they have placed me in the right direction and helped me get comfortable with trend following. Thanks.

Sincerely,

Philemon

You are welcome.

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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.

Subscribe to Trend Following Radio on iTunes

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

Listen to this episode:

• Listen to this podcast on iTunes. (Please leave a rating!)
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Hi Michael,

The biggest challenge that I am facing is that I don’t have a system to follow. All this time, I have been doing discretionary trades which led me to blow the account 6 times till now. No risk management, no entry and exit rules.

I would like to work on building a system for positional swing trading.

Aman

No swing trading. Let that go. Why not trend following?

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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.