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Hey Michael. Thanks for all you do in the trading community. I’m relatively new to trading, I’ve only been studying trading since 2018. Before that I didn’t know the difference in bullish vs bearish or green candles vs red. But I have tried to learn as much as possible over the last two years. I haven’t made much but I haven’t lost a lot either so I guess that’s alright. I first came across the notion of trend following listening to a [name] podcast episode with [name]. He talked about following the trend and position sizing and risk management and letting your winners run while cutting your losses and finding your edge in the market. That really resonated with me and I’ve been trying to learn what I can in that direction. Not long after that I came across your podcast and work. I think my biggest challenge has been to find an edge and find the right platform to trade with that edge. I’ve been working through [name] strategy using AmiBroker. I’ve been a software developer for 20+ years so when I came across the idea of coding in an edge and letting the computer generate the signals (as opposed to emotions or some random “stock picking guru” on YouTube) was very appealing to me. I’ve only been at it for a couple months now. I’m always trying to continue learning and wanted to see what all you had available. I haven’t read your books yet but I think that’s next for me. I’ve enjoyed your book segments you’ve had on your podcast.

Thanks for listening to me ramble on and for all the great trend following education!
Kit M.

Sounds like you are on a smart path. More to read.

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My guest today is Michael Shawn Malone, an American author, columnist, editor, investor, businessman, television producer, and has been the host of several shows on PBS. Currently (2009), Malone is a columnist for ABC News, an op-ed contributor for The Wall Street Journal, a contributing editor to Wired, and the editor-in-chief of Edgelings.com, a website focused on business and technology news in Silicon Valley. He graduated from Santa Clara University in 1975, and received his MBA from SCU in 1977.

The topic is his book The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future We’ve Sold to Machines.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• William H. Davidow and Michael S. Malone go deeply into the enormous implications of these developments. They show why increases in productivity no longer translate into increases in the GDP and how zero cost, one-to-many communications have been turned into tools for cybercrime and propaganda. Many of the book’s recommendations–such as using taxes to control irresponsible internet behavior and enabling people to put their data into what are essentially virtual personal information “safety deposit boxes”–are bold and visionary, but we must figure out how we will deal with these emerging challenges now, before the Autonomous Revolution overcomes us.

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Dear Michael, I am a Zoroastrian by religion and Indian passport holder. I trade the Nifty Index weekly options on the National Stock Exchange based at Mumbai in India. I sell naked call or puts and wait for weekly expiry to pocket the premium. If the index moves sharply in my favor I close immediately and do not wait for expiry. If it moves against me I either hold on if I am confident it will reverse or roll the trade over to the next expiry. I almost never buy options. Sometimes I trade a spread more as a hedge to my naked position. I may close one leg of the spread going against me and let the other profitable one run.

My biggest challenge has been finding someone trustworthy who can deliver good guidance and receiving accurate trading signals. My experience shows that accumulating profits is a slow and long procedure whereas one loss sets you back and the game begins again. I have only one trade at a time using all my available funds. I find it difficult to concentrate on multi trades. I know I am advised against it but this is what I do.

I am 70 years old in service employed as an accountant, hence I am more of a positional trader not a day trader. I had placed all my funds in a managed account trusting someone and overnight I lost everything. I am now trying to earn a regular income to permit me to retire.

Best regards,
N.

You need one strategy. I don’t see that. I see all over the map. Start here.

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In your book on Trend Following, you follow some guy, whose name I have forgotten, but, he was incredibly successful, and then it all went to shit.

I don’t recall from that tidbit alone. Do you mean my TurtleTrader book?

So, I think I can live jess fine without your temptations. Essentially, you find the most lucrative investments, buy and hold until they aren’t so good.

You need details. That’s general assumptions you write. Trend following is not buy and hold.

So, why give you $3 grand plus, on that basis. Plus, you ain’t exactly personable, but are dismissive.

The details:

www.trendfollowing.com/faqs

www.trendfollowing.com/markets

www.trendfollowing.com/events

www.trendfollowing.com/zerosum

Dismissive? Personable? Read what others say. And: listen to 800+ episodes.

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Hello Mr. Covel,

My biggest challenge is consistency, I always listened to this and that here and there. I tried somewhat technical trading but always switch to different indicators without big success, then tried the long term buy and hold à la Motley Fool with rather big loss. Well big loss in percentage only, because I am still with my few thousands dollars account to get the twist before investing more money.

From the beginning of the year it seems to unlock somehow. I just finish reading your book The Little Book of Trading. So far with a combination of MACD/Volume/MFI/EMA(55) I identified two trends signals (I am only long) one with perfect timing, another a bit late. I made a Google Sheets calculator for the risk management based on ATR but didn’t had any stop loss so far, got burnt rather much by putting stops and got swept just to see the trend getting back, so I’m just watching from time to time, no hurry as I am already more than +10% up on these two trends. It’s a study case on stock with low account for now.

The best lesson I got from your book is living the “Now”, I identified myself very much with this line of thought and want to deepen my knowledge on trend following. I’d like to look at your mini course and see what I can learn from there, no other plan for now or even to go further on your offered material, that’s the actual trend of my experience.

Benoit L. St-Placide, QC, Canada

Keep exploring.

I want to see you with a complete trading system.

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

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A reader writes:

I am focusing on trading futures right now and I need to remove all distractions in my life in order to master this task. I respect you highly and hope to come back and follow you again someday but for now I am removing everything in my life that isn’t essential to my main focus. Once that is accomplished, I will be back.

What strategy are you using to trade futures?

Intraday trading during the evenings due to my day job. I plan to start with a very small amount of cash (and by small I mean tiny, as in $250) and trade the micro NQ (possibly the ES if I can’t find consistent success since the NQ is very wicky). My setup is simple, Bollinger Bands on the 1 and 5 minute as well as a 5 day 30 minute chart for a long game view that I can zoom in and out of to maintain perspective of the long game.

I plan to trade the bounces off the top or bottom bands when I see a solid setup and manage the trade extremely tight (2 points max) in order to stay in the game since that 2 point stop can go to 4 plus in the blink of an eye.

If I happen to have the opportunity to get in during the day and it’s a trend day, then I want to hit those opportunity days with larger sized moves in order to capture a portion of those beautiful moves up or down.

By all means, if you see any flaws or have any questions or concerns, please let me know as I am always open to the insight of those that are more experienced than myself.

Stop all of that. It’s a dead end. Nothing to salvage. And it ends in one way only…

Badly.

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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 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.