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Hi Mike,

Came across your book TF thru Ed Seykota website, read reviews and learned about turtle trader. Checked if your website is legit—that it’s really you then read around. thanks for the first video, been reading some so the video sounded more familiar. Will keep on reading and go through the 2nd stuff you sent, thanks again and plans to buy the turtle trader book on kindle. You don’t know how much I appreciate all your help, but I’m going to continue reading the stuff on your site and the ones you’re sending as well. I’m thinking of getting the flagship but later maybe, hope I’m doing it right.

Thanks again!

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Hi Michael,

The greatest challenge so far in my trading career of 2 months has been information overload and impatience. I was a high school English teacher and principal for 18 years and then ran into some political challenges forcing me to leave the field. For the past year, I tried my hand at financial planning but dislike the sales aspect of the job and have been running low on funds and options. Just recently, I have begun trading a 10,000 account using stock pickers services from Jeff Bishop and Tom Gentile, but my entries and scouts are poor and I’m down 7000. I am really looking for a system and a mentor to help me truly learn the trading game, so that I can make 500,000 per year trading in order to create an amazing life for my 3 children and so that I may return to education by teaching young people of all backgrounds how to invest, trade and become wealthy as well. I would appreciate any guidance you have in helping me reach my goals. I’m really excited to hear from you, Michael!

Adam B.

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Hi Michael,

The biggest challenge I face is having a system to take out the emotional decisions. I consistently pick losers and joke that you better not have company xyz because I just bought and they will now go down. Too bad I didn’t short them.

This has lead to the biggest challenge I face now. I am paralyzed. Most of my investments are in cash on the side because I can’t decide how to invest. I keep reading different trading methods and so called expert opinions which only leads to more paralysis. I don’t like the idea of mutual funds or having others invest for me yet at this point it would be better than what I am doing now.

Your system makes sense to me. I came across it probably 6 months ago but didn’t follow up until now. I am ready to learn your system and stick with it.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Regards,

Wayne

I can help when you are ready.

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I’ve always had a Trend Trading bent but didn’t realize it until I read your TurtleTrader book and now Trend Following. I just wish I had the maturity to understand what you’ve been trying to say to me a few years ago.

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My name is [blank], I am a senior at Babson College and I am interning at a Private Equity firm for the summer. Investing in stocks has always been my passion and I am starting to get into it each day. The biggest challenge I have faced is basically not wanting to invest out of fear that I lack knowledge. I do not consider myself to be an “emotional” investor, rather my “fear” is a product of an intellectual understanding that I need to know more. I feel I need to fully understand and study all economic downturns in history to fully grasp and anticipate market behaviors. I would like your advice and your perspective–can this “fear” serve as motivation to further study the markets? I look forward to your answer and to your mini-course!

Why are you afraid to start?

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Cheers mate, I love your book.

I’ve been working up a few different options for trend following. I’ve tried moving average cross overs of sma50/sma100, sma50/sma200 and ema20/sma50.

But the most effective so far seems to be stocks breaking out of a 365 day high or longer long term resistance and above a 10 period offset low. The sell is on the cross of the 10 week period low. It seems to work well on daily charts but also very well on weekly charts. I’ve been looking at stocks on the ASX, mainly the top 200. See attached an example.

Just an idea to show you there are some of us out there still keen and capable of independent thinking. I’m looking forward to doing more of this on commodities to see how it performs. I’m amazed at the period of hold, a couple of years in some instances.

Thanks!

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My guest today is Mike Jackness, the CEO of Terran, an eCommerce company that builds and operates unique brands and content sites. He is also the cofounder of Ecom Crew, a blog and podcast dedicated to showing what goes on behind the scenes while running a seven-figure eCommerce brand. Getting his start in the online poker world over a decade ago, Mike ran one of the largest poker affiliate companies in the world until new legislation brought the whole industry to a halt. From there, he ventured into ecommerce with Treadmill.com, which he then sold in 2014. Since then, he has started multiple other ecommerce brands with total revenues over $7 million annually.

The topic is ecommerce business.

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• Start and Grow Your Amazon and Ecommerce Business

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Michael,

Fabulous podcast on Earl Weaver! I spent many days at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium in the 70s and 80s watching Indians v Orioles. My favorite “rival.” I loved Earl chain smoking in the dugout. Great memories, great analogy! Keep up the quality work.

[Name] CFA CFP®
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[Name] Wealth Management

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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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• 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.