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Hi Michael,

I have been your podcast follower since 2021. I was introduced to your book, The Complete Turtle Traders by [name], an investment and trading education centre, that popped up on my Youtube screen while I was doing research on education. Prior to that, I was a complete novice and have never bothered about the world of stock markets in my life. All my life, I avoided finance and anything related to accounting, and did the bare minimum of taking economics during my college days.

Upon graduation from America, I came back to my hometown of Penang, Malaysia and was working a typical 9 to 5 job with a logistics company. I never bothered to invest my hard earned money. In 2014, I quit my full time job and became a stay-at-home-mom for my 2 kids. Now after ten years, I just turned 50 and my kids are grown. And I am proud to say that I am now an avid full-time trader and investor for the past 3 years. Listening to your podcast is an essential part of my trading journey. I’ve gotten to know so many people and books by tuning into your interviews with famous and successful trend traders. I also love listening to some non-trading related interviews concerning the psychology, habits of success and most recently this Think and Grow Rich from Napoleon Hill.

Thanks for digging up this nugget of treasures of wisdom, which is inspiring and still applicable today. Cheers!

From the lovely island of Penang, Malaysia.
[Name]

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Your work has changed my life in positive ways. My trading has improved a 100%. I live in Silver Spring MD. Started trading in 2017 and then retired from Government. Thanks so much for all you do. I love Tom Basso interviews great for trading.

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Michael, I hope you are well. I immediately thought of you when I read this trend following approach this airline seems to be taking.

By Lauren Ohnesorge – Senior Staff Writer, Triangle Business Journal; Dec 16, 2024

Frontier Airlines has pulled nearly 40 percent of its flight lineup from Raleigh-Durham International Airport, including the airport’s sole flights to Buffalo and Indianapolis. A spokesperson for the low-cost carrier described the move as seasonal suspensions. The airline did not immediately comment on what flights may be returning. Industry watchers say route cuts aren’t unusual for Denver-based Frontier. “It goes into a ton of new markets and then it culls the ones that don’t make money quickly,” said Brett Snyder of Cranky Flier. “It just keeps trying new markets and hoping that some of the ones it tries will perform well enough to stick around.”

That’s trend following!

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Hi Michael,

You are wrong that my system is not trend following, plain and simple.

I still need to read the footnotes and other links in the 6 emails as I have time, and I thank you for that information, but over the last 25+ years of trading I learned that there should be no emotions (or marriage to any instrument) in trading, I scan for the BEGINNING of the (hopefully macro) trend, get in on the triggers confirming simultaneously, and ride it until my indicators say exit (sometimes just for a day or week if it is determined to just be a temporary pullback before a resumption of the trend to a higher probability higher high).

The place where we are different is in the trading type media (ie stocks, futures, futures option contracts, options, currencies/FOREX, etc.). I rarely trade shares of stock when I can rather trade highly liquid option contracts giving me much more leverage and less capital tied up, something I so absolutely no mention from you. Stocks/shares are old school for account growth, unless you want to diversify with a few good companies and hold shares and collect dividends and possibly write covered CALLs longer term, but that is not trend following if you just buy and hold (I don’t do that either). The other big point when trading options is I am often SELLING premium instead of buying it so please don’t rant to me how 80% of folks buying options lose (not if they are trend following).

Thanks,
Robert M.

Not trend following.

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My guest today is Tom Basso, an American hedge fund manager. He was president and founder of Trendstat Capital Management. He is the author of two books, Panic-Proof Investing and the self-published The Frustrated Investor. Tom is widely known in the trading community as “Mr. Serenity” due to his calm and disciplined approach to trading.

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• Equal opportunity v. equal outcomes
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Hello.

I’m still a beginner trader and my biggest challenge is being able to define the most appropriate price to enter and exit the operation.

Rodrigo C.

I can help. Start here.

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