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Two Centuries of Trend Following White Paper

This came across my desk the other day:

Just in case you have not seen this yet. Check-out Footnote 7. I think your book is referenced!

Very cool. Indeed. Thanks.


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Ep. 232: Tucker Max Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Tucker Max
Tucker Max

My guest today is Tucker Max, an American author and public speaker. He chronicles his drinking and sexual encounters in the form of short stories on his website TuckerMax.com, which has received millions of visitors since Max launched it as the result of a bet in 2000.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Covel and Max talk about their first meeting, and Max’s brutally honest advice to Covel
  • Diet and nutrition
  • The NCAA, college athletics, exploitation, the media, and having to ‘beat’ the system
  • Marginal cost and marginal product
  • Entrepreneurial thinking and Max’s early career
  • Max’s experience in marketing
  • Protecting your independence
  • Christopher Hitchens
  • Facing rejection in publishing, and how rejection is part of success
  • How success only teaches you to repeat what you did before, and failure forces you to think
  • What drives Max today
  • How the landscape has changed in regards to authors
  • The fight for authority and trust in the publishing world
  • What motivates Tucker Max today–the quality of relationships you have with other people, and what you do that matters to others

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Your Risk Tolerance Will Ultimately Be A Personal Choice

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Hi Mike, I just signed up [Name] for the new newsletter. Thanks. We also have a question/need an opinion from you. Of all the trend traders that may offer minimum account sizes of 2 million who do you think has the best risk adjusted returns?

Thanks,
Kim [Name]

Depends on how you define risk.

Note: It depends on many things. I’d rather give a short answer versus replicating 5 books.


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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.

Rough Patches… Just Part of the Game

Dry spells and rough patches are all part of this trend game. Sometimes it can feel like you are all alone in your drawdowns. It’s always good to be reminded that many, many people have been there before and made it out on the other end. Consider some feedback:

Nice podcast with Mark Minervini and was pleasantly surprised. Did not know what to expect as I don’t know much about [him]. You guys both brought home some really good points. Points that especially were practical and informative. The nice thing with the podcast is that at times you might be going through something in your trading and one of your guests makes a remark or reference and you have one of these eye opening moments. I guess in my own little way I feel a sense of validation!

Thanks.


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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Trend Following Podcast Guests
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Markets to Trade
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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.

Ep. 231: Two Centuries of Trend Following with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

 Two Centuries of Trend Following with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Two Centuries of Trend Following with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Please enjoy my monologue Two Centuries of Trend Following with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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Trend Following Firms and Trading Abroad

I receive emails every week asking for advice on trend following firms. Consider:

I am a listener of your podcast and have spent some time studying what you advocate. That said it seems like the only logical way to make investments in the traditional markets. In 2008 my retirement portfolio suffered a big loss and I began to reevaluate a life time of main stream traditional advice. Finding you and [Name] was a reinforcement of what I was realizing to be the true situation of the US monetary system. Suddenly all was clear to me. Being a Boomer I decided if I wanted to keep anything I had worked for it was time to make a change. At present I have taken a buy out from my old company and so I am either unemployed or an entrepreneur depending on how you look at it. My question: is there a firm who can take my existing portfolio and some cash and mange it using the trend following method. [Name] advises moving all your funds to Singapore or Hong Kong for safety which I agree with, but establishing a brokerage account to be managed there appears to be a problem for US citizens. Is there a company in the USA or elsewhere that can do this? The funds amount to about 1.6 million in USD value currently.

Thanks for any information.

M.J. [Name]

You will find many trend names across my 5 books. Best to start there. Unfortunately, I have no insights for USA citizens opening brokerage accounts abroad.


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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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.

Ep. 230: Mark Minervini Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Mark Minervini
Mark Minervini

My guest today is Mark Minervini, a technical analyst, acclaimed author, instructor, and independent trader. He has over 30 years of experience in finance, and was featured in Jack Schwager’s Stock Market Wizards; Conversations with America’s Top Stock Traders.

The topic is his book Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Mar

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Importance of influences outside of the finance world
  • Minervini’s atypical background in music and how he got to where he is today
  • Capturing ‘super performance’ and the trend
  • The importance of cutting your losers short
  • How Minervini spends his day
  • Richard Love and ‘super performance’ stocks
  • Why Minervini is not a fan of diversification beyond the minimum amount that you can get away with
  • Richard Donchian, Jesse Livermore and their influence on Minervini
  • Timeless strategies
  • Paul Tudor Jones and ‘losers average losers’
  • The importance of not just trading what you know
  • ‘New high ground’ and not being afraid of buying higher highs
  • Risk management and bet sizing
  • The biggest areas where new traders often start off on the wrong foot
  • Howard Lederer and poker players as an analogy to traders
  • Why you shouldn’t even turn on the television as a stock trader

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