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- July 13, 2005Eclipse Capital Management: Trend Following Trader
Eclipse Capital Management, a prominent trend follower, recently authored a white paper addressing performance. Their key conclusion was a nice academic way of saying, “stay in for the long term and don’t…
- July 10, 2005Wisdom Found in the New Market Wizards Book
Always understand the risk/reward of the trade as it now stands, not as it existed when you put the position on. Some people say, “I was only playing with the market’s money.”…
- July 6, 2005Money Management Bullshit: Understand Position Sizing
I recently saw the following comment regarding money management: “Every system in our report uses very simple money management: Trade one contract per trading signal in the markets specified by the vendor…
- July 3, 2005Ed Seykota on Testing Trading Systems
Ed Seykota was recently asked: “I’ve got Excel on my computer…is it possible to make a good trading system on Excel or do I need to purchase…[a] sophisticated software program?” Seykota Answered:…
- July 1, 2005Citigroup View of Trend Trading
Citigroup View of Trend Trading: Read (PDF).
- June 13, 2005Good Trend Following Article
An excerpt from recent SFO magazine article on trend following: “The objective for any investor who wants to be active in the markets is quite simple. How does one make effective decisions…
- June 10, 2005Ed Seykota Bet Sizing Insights for Trend Following
A simple, yet classic piece of writing: Ed Seykota’s bet sizing. More.