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Michael –

Just want to thank you for offering the Trend Following course! I bought it about a year ago and have incorporated your key principles into my system. Having stop losses on all positions has saved my butt in this market. I’m down about 5% vs the market being down well over 20%. Will now switch to being patient and looking for opportunities as they present themselves with the same focus on stop losses and position sizing that I learned from you.

Having a system brings a level of calm I don’t see in a lot of friends right now. Like you we live out of the US (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico). Being outside of the US makes it easier to step back and observe instead of being in the middle of the hysteria friends back home are experiencing.

Thanks again for your course, podcasts and books!

Leo W.

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My guest today is David J. Hand, an emeritus professor of mathematics and senior research investigator at Imperial College London, a former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and a fellow of the British Academy. His many previous books include The Improbability Principle, Measurement: A Very Short Introduction, Statistics: A Very Short Introduction, and Principles of Data Mining.

The topic is his book Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• David Hand
• Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters
• Improbability principle
• Statistics
• Underestimating variability
• Improbability principles
• Fabricated data
• Social Sciences

Mentions and Resources:

• Jim Simons
• Greg Zuckerman
• Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• The Big Short
• Steve Wozniak
• Anthony Hopkins
• Winton Capital

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Hi Michael,

You asked me what my biggest challenge in trading is. It is for me to find the right time horizon. I currently traded a mean reversion strategy on a day end basis, but after several months I noticed that it is to the short term for me. I want to trade more on a weekly basis. I learned this only by trading the system. With backtesting, it did not help me. I think finding the right system that fits me is really the holy grail as Tom Basso and Van Tharp always say, and it is true. But you have to go through the learning curve yourself.

More maybe later, I am currently reading your books and I think trend following on a midterm basis is more suitable for me than daily trading. I like to study daily, but not trading.

Thanks for your feedback.

Have a great day,
Philip

Good perspective.

But I help people get there faster.

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I’m sure you’ve heard similar:

I have friends 55+ who have Vanguard index funds “because fees are low”. One claims to have standard 60/40 allocation, another 75/25 allocation. They are nervous for the last 2 weeks.

Neither has a process to re-balance. The first one simply could not pull the trigger in January to sell a bit of his stock index to maintain a 60/40 ratio. Selling is very very difficult for him, while the market is going up.

Thank you for your great podcast, and emphasis on Thinking & Process.

Brian

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Michael,

I always enjoy your podcast, I will do a better job of providing reviews! I started trading a trend following strategy after reading Turtle Trader 7 years ago, and it has changed my life. Currently, I am a Spinosaurus client of yours as well. I also have been practicing yoga for 2 years and it has changed things for me once again, your occasional mention of yoga sparked my interest. So basically, I have learned a lot from you. I have sent you an excerpt from the book “Meditations on Intention and Being” by Rolf Gates before. My understanding is that he is a yoga-teacher instructor, maybe he would be a good interview. Today’s reading stood out to me and I thought I would share a few lines:

“The inner life of humanity is haunted by the implacable fact that the things we create and love are impermanent and that the futures we are living into are uncertain. Yoga outlines a set of actions that can significantly reduce the amount of suffering we have to put up with.”

A separate note, in my day job I am a 20-year financial advisor and I recommend to clients that we allocate a percentage of the portfolio to the available mutual funds that use systematic trend following, and it is usually the most questioned investment. Unfortunately, all the funds that a broker-dealer will approve are the low volatility ones, so you don’t see a lot of “crisis alpha”. Interestingly enough. Dunn Capital has a fund now through Arrow Funds, my broker-dealer will not approve. One reason: “It does not have a long enough track record.” LMAO.

Thank you,

Chris

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My guest today is Stefan Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Thomke’s research is focused on the process, economics, and management of experimentation and testing in the context of innovation management. Thomke’s highly cited research has been published as research articles, case studies and notes extensively in books and leading journals such as California Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Management Science, Organization Science, Research Policy, Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal and Scientific American.

The topic is his book Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Experimentation Works
• Overcoming Cultural Issues
• Brainstorming
• Think Outside the Box
• High Velocity

Mentions & Resources:

• Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
• Stefan Thomke
• Booking.com
• Amazon
• Richard Feynman
• Ron Johnson
• JC Penny
• Jane Fonda
• Lily Tomlin

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Michael,

So happy that I got directed to your podcasts. I have been playing catch up and have been listening to them for a week. I was a natural gas trader for the last 25 years and decided to break free and make it on my own. I would appreciate the information you provide to get started trend trading.

Thanks,

Brett

Here’s the best reference to get started.

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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.