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Hi Mike

I have another question if its okay. I just ordered your book, Trend Following, will receive it on November 22, and look forward to reading it, and get started on some stock analysis, initially on ETFs.

I am a beginner in the stock world, but have read a lot about it, and many of the articles I have read say that it is difficult to beat the market, and especially if you have to beat the market so it makes a difference. Do you have any figures on how the systems from your book Trend Following are performing for beginners.

I know it’s a difficult question, and I’m also not sure if you give a specific recipe for a system in your book, since I haven’t read it yet. but in Denmark it is possible to have about 7% on ETF per year, and that is okay – but when you start investing as a 52 year old man and I know that I have come late to invest, but it is Now I have the time, the interest and the money to invest for. Then it may well give a little more than 7% per year, otherwise I might as well just invest in ETFs on a monthly basis, and save myself from all the analysis work, which I look forward to – as I love to work with numbers and excel sheets.
Hope you can make me a little wiser on an average return for Trend Following, without promising anything.

Kind Regards,

Johnny H.
Denmark

My Flagship is for ETFs.

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I’d really be surprised if someone like you took time to read this, but we all just get one chance, so I might as well try and ask. I’m an Philosophy major from Slovakia, who got intrigued by the idea of, at first, trading, then trend-following. Wanting to implement my own strategies, I learned to code. Which also made it possible for me to land a developer job at a large corporation. Anyway unlike devs abroad, I’m not able to save more than say 200 bucks a month. With that little money it seems hard to be able to trade huge amount of markets if you risk 1% per trade. I’ve reached out to one hedge fund, just to find out their minimum is 100k. Is this only a game for large players, who firstly made something of themselves and then want to invest that?

I’ve also tried launching my own subscription based website, to get the ball rolling. Took me 1 year to develop and finish completely, didn’t go anywhere. I guess I just have to try harder next time around, and my mistake was focusing on Slovakia (it’s just 6 million people, third of whom are not probably capable even browsing internet).

It’s probably not much, but at least I’ll comment on iTunes.

Thanks for reaching out. Read to start.

Then read more of the links/pages all over.

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My guest today is Buster Benson, an entrepreneur and a former product leader at Amazon, Twitter, Slack, and Patreon. He’s now CEO of 750words.com and writes for Medium.

The topic is his book Why Are We Yelling?

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Liked this a lot.

What fascinates me is the Opportunity Cost. If you go down the path of taking in information, and taking in information that is just made up, not real, and assuming it to be real… there’s an opportunity cost to that. All the time that you spend on stuff that is not real prevents you from getting ahead on what is real. So the trick in this day & age, if there is one, is the filter.

Thanks!

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My biggest challenge is that I work for the Royal Danish Navy and sails in the North-Atlantic, and do not have access to fast internet, only slow slow internet. I need to figure out a system with less time online, and think that trend following could be it.

Yes it can be.

You can use EOD or EOW data — no day trading with trend following.

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Feedback about my recent Mark Minervini episode:

Fantastic interview!! Thank you

S. H.
Solicitor

Accredited Specialist
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Australia

And:

I once opened a fortune cookie a couple decades ago and it read, “your health is your wealth”. It really resonated with me, as I felt and still feel, that I’m very healthy relative to my family and friends, and it’s how I think about my life in terms of what to reflect on. In this regard I feel blessed. As another author put it, you don’t want to be the richest person in the hospital.

Give it a listen!

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My biggest issue has been the volatility that Trump caused by opening his mouth. Last year I had several options on Amazon. Without any real reason Trump just started whaling on Amazon almost on the daily. Since then I’ve been reading very little and studying much more. My true mistake was that I had too much money in one investment.

Trump did not cause your issues.

An incomplete/bad plan doomed you.

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.

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.