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Hi Michael,

Love your podcasts, wide range of topics and guests. Very interesting and engaging.

Your last one about Woodward spins Belushi is a great example of you exposing your own bias and linking a single incident to a different set of independent incidents and then to a whole group of individual “Journalists” and saying you can’t believe ANY journalist. If Woodward can be wrong then all of them must be wrong. That’s some big leaps in association and generalized to the point of blindness. This a great example of a human habit that gets all of us in trouble and part of why we all struggle with crazy stuff. Hopefully we keep people around us to keep us from falling off the deep end and ending up like Alex Jones 😉

You’re a smart, successful guy but very human and very passionate about your ideas and world view. That podcast was a great reminder to me that we all have blind spots and overstate things we “believe” to be facts.

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Why does it disturb you so much that journalists should either not be believed and or questioned at every step? I can turn on “news” at any time of the day and every bit of it is opinion designed to shove an agenda — the same kind of stuff Woodward did to Belushi. Why does it bother you that I say that? Why is media above criticism?

You make the point of episode.

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Hi Michael,

Appreciate all that you have done thus far. I loved your Turtle Trading book, along with the Little Book of Trading, and I have been listening to random podcast episodes, realizing that I should listen to them all since each one is packed with some much valuable information. Thus, I am working through them sequentially.

One thing that has changed for me is that I need to approach trading from a statistical point of view and not something like “I’m living or dying by this next trade.” I have been so stuck in the boat that I’m going to get rich off this next trade and that I have to win, and I can’t have any losses. So many guests have talked about how important money management is, and how it’s okay to not know what will happen next in the market. It’s true, I don’t need to know what happens next to make money.

Again, thank you. I have noted the amazing deal on your trend trading system and I’ll spend a bit of time going through the resources you will provide as the journey of trend trading is one I want to pursue.

Best,
Evan

You are welcome!

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Michael,

I just received my copy of your 5th Edition of Trend Following, purchased from Amazon. I was immediately shocked and excited by the size of it! This thing is a textbook. Have you ever thought about putting together a study guide? Something to help your readers hold themselves accountable and test themselves to make sure they’re absorbing the information in each chapter. I’m going to need to come up with a plan of attack for sure. I’ve nearly finished devouring The Little Book of Trading in less than a week, where as my typical reading habit is a few pages here and there. Clearly Trend Following is going to require discipline and concentration.

Thank you for your work on this subject. I’m very excited to learn how to create a trend following system with good money management. It is clear that I’ll need a reliable way to access risk across markets, so that I can properly weight positions. Anyway, thanks again and enjoy those miniskirts on the motorcycles wherever in the world you are these dwindling summer days!

All the best,
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Study guide? Just the book. It’s a read start to finish.

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My guest today is Scott Belsky, an American entrepreneur, author and early-stage investor best known for co-creating the online portfolio platform, Behance, Inc. He is author of several books with his latest being “The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture.”

The topic is his book The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Seth Godin
• Entrepreneurship
• Enduring lows and optimizing highs
• Uncertainty in business
• Starting a business
• Staying engaged
• Self awareness

“To be done is to die.” – Scott Belsky

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• Scott Belsky
• The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture

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The concept of not owning your investments, in my case my trades, really stuck to me. I believe the analogy of an entrepreneur and having that mindset with me at the time I trade has really help me understand that losing trades are part of the whole. If you want to be a winner you are definitely going to have losers, and now I’m okay with that. I never used fundamentals because my very first influence on trading was Walter Peters, so I’m pretty much set on the side of technical analysis. I was lastly wondering if Elliott Wave trading fitted into what you call trend following?

Run from Elliott Wave! My Faqs are a good start.

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Winton: “Quantitative investment pioneer and author Ed Thorp discusses his winning strategies for blackjack and roulette, what he learnt when he turned his hand to “the biggest casino in the world” – Wall Street, and why he thinks that more financial crises are inevitable.”

Source.

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Food for thought:

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• The Good Story
• Time Magazine Sold to Salesforce Founder Marc Benioff for $190 Million
• Branded a Villain, Lehman’s Dick Fuld Chases Redemption
• The Financial Crisis Killed Hedge-Fund Performance
• Lazy, Not Biased: Susceptibility to Partisan Fake News Is Better Explained by Lack of Reasoning Than by Motivated Reasoning
• You Can Time The Market, Just Not All The Time
• The Cognitive Burden of Poverty
• Could the Fed Have Saved Lehman?
• Experts are good at betting which scientific experiments can replicate
• What Personality Tests Really Deliver
• The Psychology of Trading Without the Ego
• Can We Survive the Next Financial Crisis?
• This school replaced detention with meditation. The results are stunning.
• Where Will The Next Crisis Come From?
• The Misleading Lessons of History
• Back To $chool
• How to Maximize Serendipity
• It was a gut-wrenching trade, but investors who bought the day before Lehman failed are up 130%
• Each crisis has been followed by a bigger crisis
• When You Lose 99.9%, You’ve Lost More Than Money

Enjoy.

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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.