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My biggest challenge I faced with trading was controlling my emotions, I felt like being in a roller coaster and that did not help me at all. Made me lose many trades until I realized how that was affecting my performance at trading and at life. But, when I started making changes and started being more mechanical, my perspective in everything changed. After starting to read your Trend following book I knew and started to understand what I was doing without proper knowledge and fell in love with it.

Hope to learn even more from this mini trend following course through email.

Thank you!
[Name]

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• 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.

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Please enjoy my monologue The Alternative Thinking Universities Shun with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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Michael,

I greatly enjoy your podcasts and your books. Planning to add trend trading as a second enterprise as soon as I feel comfortable with the process and have practiced a year. We raise cattle and beef for a living and a little crop farming. Have a degree in ag econ and finance and understand the mechanics of the trading. Have a good understanding of the market psychology so understand what you are talking about. Love your approach but don’t fully have it as second nature. We are very busy building final infrastructure on our family land. We moved back several years ago so we can handle 1,000 plus head of cattle easily with one responsible employee. Trade daily in the cash market swapping overvalued animals for undervalued animals (glad to share that process I think you’d get a kick out of it, its so easy a smart person can’t figure it out), we have 25 years experience buying cheap feed (not because of quality, due to timing. Inverse of selling strategies) fun stuff. We then turn this feed and our proprietary managed pasture into cattle gain. [We are] almost done and that will leave me the time (plus I’ll be bored after our systematization is complete) needed to develop our trend trading strategy. 51 yrs old. What do you recommend as the path to create trade monitoring systems, who to set up accounts with? Process to get comfortable and make the system second nature before using real capital (when the real learning begins). I want my ducks in a row. Open to all your suggestions. Nuts and bolts, monitoring record keeping etc. Hope to be able to travel more and it appears we can use this process from a computer from anywhere.

Looking forward to hearing from you. Once again greatly appreciate what you do, stay in touch.

[Name]

Two links: one, two.

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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.

A recent exchange:

Hi Michael,

I back tested a version of Donchian channel trading with parameters 20/20 weekly (only going long) on some Brazilian stocks, mid caps.

I ended up loosing (in the test) during all 2018 and was told that I needed to be comfortable with that. While I know that not every trade might be a winner, I believe the majority should be, at least 60%. For me it’s not acceptable to lose a whole year which was a bad performing year. A system must work in up- and downwards markets which this system naturally doesn’t (it only goes long).

I have not yet found a system that provides positive returns on a regular basis. This is my challenge.

[Name]

Your system?

1. Too short term.

2. Diversification not there.

3. Risk management?

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your short assessment. Point 2, I understand fully. To bet on Brazilian stocks only is silly as they tend to go quite uniformly, right? Point 1, I do not understand. As I read, Turtle, the original, is [this wise?].

Best regards,

[Name]

Go here: www.trendfollowing.com/video.

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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.

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Hey Michael,

I hope this actually gets through to you. I just finished the Trend Following book and was completely blown away. I am a total newbie and am riding with training wheels right now but I think I’ve taken a big step in the right direction by reading your book and following your material. I’d say my biggest challenge is getting started. I am a brand new retail trader and don’t have any mentors or one on one coaching readily available to me. I’m reading every trading book I can get my hands on and researching every other resource I can find. I know I need to be as systematic in my approach as possible. I haven’t experimented with many actual trades but I did go through the beginner’s luck phase before reality made itself known and I gave it all back and then some. I’ve been hooked ever since. I’m looking forward to continuing my study, developing a system, testing it, and getting rolling. Until then I’m organically growing my account and taking a few paper trades every week.

Thanks,
[Name]

Welcome!

Some FAQs.

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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.

Subscribe to Trend Following Radio on iTunes

My guest today is Brent Huigens, an entrepreneur in the world of trading cards. He is founder and president of PWCC Marketplace, the largest seller of investment trading cards globally with more than $50 million in annual revenue. In 1998 Brent founded PWCC to provide buyers and sellers an efficient, honest and predictable marketplace. In 2012, he set his current engineering career aside to pursue the growth of PWCC full time.

The topic is trading.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Card trading
• eBay
• Professional grading
• Impact of the internet on trading cards
• Auctions trading

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• Brent Huigens

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