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Hi Michael,

I have read two of your books. A friend told me all about Turtle Traders, so my sons and I have been learning more about trend following.

When I look into the market and hear the financial advisors I leave noting some kind of illogical premise in “buy and hold”. Something is off if you are trying to actually make gains. What’s even funnier is the repeated “you can’t time the market” yet we are preparing for a very timed event: retirement.

I find the financial markets and trend following fascinating. I used to find comfort in the fundamentals. However with all the information I have amassed I’m not anywhere closer to making money.

I still find context compelling though, but certainly not the talking heads, the columnists, nor the aching details of the balance sheet. Most everyone is living the delusion of non-self liquidating debt, and corporations are over leveraged.

When you surf you jump on a wave that has already formed and you get off before it flattens.

Simply stated I am a single mother with very little money. I’m not your best customer as I can not take the course. Trying my hand at turning $1000 into more with all the content that you have given your audience, as well as reading your books!

Looking forward to this newsletter.

Janine B

Wise to dump the fundamentals.

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Hello, Michael.

Thanks for the video.

I’ve just only started to dive into Trading and haven’t got any certain approach so far. But I tend to think that trend following is going to be a winning strategy for me because I can understand how it would work. So the biggest challenge here would be how to define entry and exit points through time?

I see it more than timing. 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.

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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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My guest today is Scott D. Anthony, a senior partner at the growth-strategy consulting firm Innosight and author of Dual Transformation, The Little Black Book of Innovation, and The First Mile, among several other books.

The topic is his book Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Innovation
• Living in Singapore
• Organization
• Disruptive Change
• Discovering Opportunities
• Innovation is a Discipline
• Building an Organization

Mentions & Resources:

• Scott Anthony
• Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization
• Clayton Christensen
• Scott Galloway
• Singapore
• www.innosight.com/insight/eat-sleep-innovate/
• @ScottDAnthony

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To be frank, I am not good in reading / understanding charts. Mostly, I trade with my intuition. It does work most of the time, but profit leads to loss and I exit. Most frequent error occurs to me is whenever I take a second trade and after making profit in the first trade the second one makes loss. I am fed up with myself.

1. Trend following is not about understanding charts.
2. Intuition trading is a bad idea.
3. Read.

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• 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 Trend Following and TurtleTrader with Michael Covel on Trend Following. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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Hi Michael,

Thanks for the ecourse. I have been trading in an Indian stock market for more than 3 years now. I’m not a full-time trader though. I have studied value investing in my initial stage of investing. But then I realized that it is not quite a logical idea to do value investing without actually going to the field to understand the company. I have to do primary market research, do talk with top management of companies to understand their vision for the company, do competitive analysis, basically do understand the moat and float of the business. I have to do it continuously because fundamentals can change any point in time. It was not possible for me to be a part time trader and having a full-time job. So I started reading about technical analysis and other technical tools like Gann theory etc. But I actually couldn’t find all these things much interesting and couldn’t trust these tools. During this time I found that ultimately it is data on which we should rely upon. I also studied and tried and backtested many strategies like buy the dogs, alpha trading etc. I found those things really interesting and am actually working on it right now. I am also learning option trading as I think it is the best tool to hedge the portfolio and limit the drawdown. The biggest problem I’m facing right now is to decide on my type of investment style. I want to talk to someone who can give me a direction through which I can figure out my investment style based on my mentality, goals, future planning and maybe some other parameters.

Thanks and regards,
Jay B.

Gann? Run away from that. Dive into trend following here and here and here and here and here.

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Michael, I have done ok with individual stock selection and buy/hold strategies as I avoid mutual funds the best I can (my company only provides mutual funds in 401k). I have put 50% of my wealth in real estate from 2009-2016 and the results are great. I lost 45% of my wealth in the 2008 draw down of my retirement investments and that is what triggered me to real estate. Now I want to learn how to work both the up and down market to avoid getting crushed in those equity drops. I have never invested market money in anything other than stocks and bonds ( and losing my ass on bitcoin), so I read your Turtle Trader book and I am trying to take time to study and learn more trading skills but I do have a full time job right now until my real estate investments (15 single-family homes) can sustain me for income. I am 50 years old. I am going to learn this trend trading area just like I took the time to learn real estate in 2009, then took action. I am close to retiring corporate america and working remotely on my own projects to sustain my earnings. I don’t want to be a billionaire, just go from $2.7M net income to $6M and then chill. My kids will be fine without me making more than that. I actively trade about $700k but $250k stuck in 401k/403b mutual funds with employers. So my biggest challenge? Learning how to do trading outside what the “experts” have trained all Americans to do.

Scott S.

I can help. A good start.

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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.