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Hey Michael,

I am a 25-year-old university student. I was put on to your books / podcasts by someone who spoke on your podcast several years ago. I subscribe to the trend following ideology and employ it in my everyday life. However, in translating that into trading I can recognize and understand the systems successful managers are employing but when I sit down to build a model I get paralysis by analysis. I want to approach the person who initially helped me but my bias is that because I bring so little to the table it’s not worth their time. I understand that that the level of uncertainty I have means I have a lot of work to do, but I want to capitalize on the unique advantage I have. So #1, am I just being a pussy? Then, as someone who is looking for a mentorship what would be an effective selling point that would make a manager interested, or do I just need to do more research and develop something?

Thanks for your time and for the insight,
Mitch G

Dig in here, here, here, here and here.

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Hi Michael,

Difficult question. My biggest challenge has been getting in at all. I’ve always been good at maths (I teach it to high school kids) and I have previously successfully predicted a few massive increases in particular investments (bitcoin, crude rise following the pandemic) and these appeared pretty obvious to me, but I always shy away from actually “putting my money where my mouth is”. It just feels too easy for me. I have some modest investments in managed funds (some of which are profiled to be fairly high risk). I don’t fear market crashes, I just always felt like I didn’t know enough to do it in spite of being right several times previously. I’ve also never really been much of a money seeking person, but the idea of the mental challenge I find intriguing. I am about halfway through your book on Richard Dennis, which I have found very thought provoking.

Thanks,
Tony B

Appeared pretty obvious? In hindsight, yes. Trend following doesn’t work that way. Get started.

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I am confused to select a style ie mean reversion, pull back or break out to be successful in trading. I am an engineering professional fully engaged from 9am to 7pm. So was thinking of trend trading methods which will require lesser time in front of the system(monitor). I prefer to be a Swing trader than day trading.

Please guide me.

Best regards,
Remesh S

–No day trading.
–No swing trading.
–No mean reversion.
–No pull back trading.

Solution? Trend following.

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I came across Trend Following about a year ago and realized it required due diligence. I have been studying Michael Covel’s Trend Following and find it very fulfilling. I use MetaTrader4 because of its old school charts. It has an indicator called DSL_DMI Oscillator, I didn’t catch who created it but assumed it relates to Direct Marketing? It seems as though it passes a lot of uptrends, but I’m also aware a lot of trends are really down trends.
If you could check out the indicator and send me some insight about it.

Art H

You don’t need an indicator. 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.

If you don’t have that? You don’t win. Read.

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The biggest challenge I faced in my trading was execution analysis part is good but when the signal arrive and I have to take a trade lots of thoughts go in my head and most of the time my trades worked but because of poor execution I didn’t take it and didn’t make any money and that’s sucks…

If you don’t get a system and follow it — you go broke. Read.

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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.