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- May 8, 2009“Broke” Film Posters
I have had one poster for “Broke: The New American Dream” out for several months. Here are more: Poster 1: low res and high res. Poster 2: low res and high res.…
- April 20, 2009Trend Followers in the Wall Street Journal
If you wanted to judge Bill Dunn or David Harding it makes much more sense to judge success or failure after looking at their month by month track records across decades over…
- April 19, 2009Talent Is Overrated: The Turtles
For those who still want to argue that the success of Richard Dennis and the success of some Turtles was “nature” over “nurture” you may want to take a read of “Talent…
- April 15, 2009Dear Mr. Covel…You Have It Exactly Backward
Feedback in: Dear Mr. Covel, Actually, from my investment perspective you have it exactly backward. As far as I am concerned, anything you buy in the hope of the price going up…
- April 10, 2009Market Crystal Ball: 1934 Chicago Tribune Cartoon
Thanks to Alex Spiroglou for noting an old cartoon with parallels for today: More.
- April 9, 2009Why Do Some Run from Trend Following?
Below is feedback in today from a reader about the continued debate of what to call “trend following”. The regulators and exchanges use terms like managed futures and commodity trading advisers (CTAs),…
- April 8, 2009Success with Trend Following
From a reader today: I have made $15 million investing in CTAs [regulatory term for trend followers] over the last 20 years, starting with Bill Dunn. I have read many books on…