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Dear Mr. Covel,

I trust you are well. I am not sure if you will ever read this email but hoping that somehow I would be fortunate to have the opportunity to ask for your guidance.

My name is Jean-a Pierre. I am a qualified airline captain and instructor for Airbus. As this is my day job it allows me to follow my true passion for the markets.

I have been trading for the past three years and have tried to read anything and everything related to the markets. I believe that knowledge is a powerful instrument to improve one’s skills.

The part of trading I am most passionate about is to form a well defined trading plan and managing the psychology behind every trade.

To improve my odds and skills; I signed up with a trading program in Miami which also provides recommended trades. I have been doing this for the past two years with mixed results. I am convinced that the trend is your friend. Books related to this trading plan from Jack D Schwager and Tom Busby was helpful.

Even with purchasing expensive software I have experienced little success and I believe that I am missing the edge to trade simply by looking at the wrong data at the wrong times.

Would there be any possibility that you could guide me where I can study and learn from a successful market champion, that you are, to become a profitable trader.

I appreciate your precious time and thank you for any guidance you could provide.

Yours sincerely,
Jean-Pierre R.

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Hey Mike,

Have respected Brennan‘s calm, adult, high integrity approach for many years now. A good conversation with him. Quietly building his thing, sticking to the knitting and getting it done.

You’ve previously mentioned email server setup in past, but I would appreciate understanding where to start, how to, what’s the practical private email setup I could attempt to create, given I am curious to implement.

Gary P.

Thx!

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My guest today is Brennan Dunn, the founder of RightMessage. He focuses on helping high level creators and businesses turn more subscribers into customers through the wizardry of personalized marketing. He is on a quest to help marketers break free of “one-size-fits-all” and deliver bespoke, highly relevant messages to their customers: both present and future.  

The topic is his book This Is Personal: The Art of Delivering the Right Email at the Right Time.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Email marketing
• Living in the UK
• Personalized advertising and AI-generated content
• Importance of engaging with recipients

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• Create & Sell

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Good morning Michael,

Wow, what a treasure trove of information on trend following. This is transformative for me. So, I was reading the PDF on Zero-Sum game and now the veil has been lifted so I totally get it. I just had one question about it: Why is stock trading not considered a Zero-Sum game, or is it? I might be missing something, but wanted to ask you first. Thanks for the incredible insight on this website. I’m ready. Simple. Incredible freedom, no more paralysis by analysis.

Thanks man,
James B.

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Hi Michael,

Hope you are doing well. I came across your book for turtle trader. I became really interested and tried to research all the traders.

The reason for my email is to ask you if you are able to direct me towards any of the most successful turtle traders. I would like to learn about commodity trading and become the best trader learning the turtle trading program. You have contributed so much to the trading community over time now. Can you please help me gain access to any of the turtle traders?

Best Regards,
Ahsan B.

I have been helping clients for years. My Flagship training. My success stories.

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Hi Michael,

Here to test (as requested) to see if you read these replies!

Hmm, how to reply in 10K words or less.

I’m a retired software exec (led engineering divisions at IBM, AT&T Labs and Salesforce), that was about to buy-in as a managing partner in a wealth management firm but pulled out before the balloon payment was due. I did manage to get a few SEC licenses at the time though. So I’m probably more techfin than fintech but definitely feel I have a background in both. This transition was back in 2009 and since, I’ve been primarily trying to manage my market assets. I’ve tried numerous swing trading strategies, spent quite a bit of money working with a trader from the Chicago pits, etc. I’ve also spent some time exchanging emails with the fund managers of some of these ETFs/systems.

After numerous attempts at trying to develop my own algorithms (can’t help it given my background) and using virtually every yahoo finance and google finance macro/function option available, I decided to focus my efforts on just using the new “innovative” ETFs that focus on smart beta/momentum/trend following/tactical allocation.

Most of these ETFs have been complete duds and have underperformed the indices (some significantly so). Sometimes the issue is portfolio construction, other times it’s laggy exit/re-entry algorithms. Some of them are somewhat simplistic, others are quite complicated (one set of ETFs utilizing AI has over 200K software LOC and the last of these ETFs are in the process of liquidation due to extremely poor performance and dwindling AUM). Some are now also incorporating long reductions when the underlying benchmark reaches extreme overbought conditions, expecting a mean reversion. Some are geared to slow exit and faster re-entry to mirror the history that the market is in an uptrend 70-75% of the time.

I’m currently positioned in maybe 15 of these types of ETFs and probably have at one point or another, utilized 15-20 others. So I’m an expert in the field, I got to your site as one of my positions is in Jerry’s new TFPN ETF, which led me to researching the Turtles.

So my biggest challenge is in either finding (or developing) a trend algorithm, or finding a set of trend/tactical allocation ETFs, that can both, consistently, minimize drawdowns, while at the same time not being a complete drag on the portfolio during the more typical uptrends.

Looking forward to researching the info on your website.

Cheers,
Mike

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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.