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Michael,

My biggest challenge is that I am in the industry and I am flooded with opinions, charts, sellside research and twitter traders data. Without irony some of the twitter traders are actually the greatest value add. I’ve read Trend Following and I am in the middle of Turtles and Trend Commandments. I have witnessed a “small time” trend follower make over $10m in a year on commodities/crypto proxies and it blew my mind. I could have mirrored easily but I just piddle paddled in day trading Covid trash names handing back half of my moves most times.

My biggest questions are and always will be “What is the trend?” and “How do I recognize a true trend?” I anticipate yearly macro stories but miss the “trend”. I have a good return but not great. Overall, I need rules and discipline to reign in my bullshit.

I’m a big fan of the books and I also have Turtle on Audible for my commutes to Palo Alto (when I show up).

P.S. – I love the based twitter posts 🙂

Thank you.

Sean B.

Welcome! My books dive into your desire and my courses do too.

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Michael,

Just listened to the recent post with Christopher Chabris and agree with most of what he said, but the devil is always in the details and how much can we trust the data that’s available.

For example, I found it interesting that he believes the COVID shots were highly effective – not sure what data he’s basing that on. While Pfizer’s initial clinical trial data did show a 95% relative risk reduction for severe COVID, the absolute risk reduction, which is what actually matters and is how the data is supposed to be presented, showed a less than 0.8% reduction in severe COVID.

That’s assuming the data Pfizer supplied isn’t manipulated, and we are seeing in the Pfizer documents that the FDA was forced to make public that there were more all-cause deaths in the treatment arm than the placebo arm.

Curious to know if you have read “Turtles All the Way Down.” Different from your turtles but calls into question the science, using science and data, backing many of our beliefs about vaccines in general.

Been listening [on your podcast] for about 7 or 8 years now. Keep up the great work!

Dirk

Thanks!

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Hi Michael,

My biggest challenge with my trading has been aligning my emotions/intuitions with the reality of trading (finding my edge).

I really enjoy reading your books because you focus on the core values and not the details. I feel that I finally understand the process and can develop my trading further.

Best regards,
Sergio U.

Welcome. But my book TurtleTrader is filled with nitty gritty details.

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My guest today is Kyle Buckett, a retired US Navy SEAL. He led the advanced training for both junior and seasoned Navy SEALs, ranked number one of nine highly competitive Platoon Chiefs, and has been instrumental in the business development of numerous Navy SEAL-founded businesses. He runs Culture Force, a consulting company with Chris Mefford, and is also regularly involved in numerous charities supporting veterans from the special forces communities.

The topic is his co-authored book Leadership Is Overrated: How the Navy SEALs (and Successful Businesses) Create Self-Leading Teams That Win.

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Hi Michael!

The things I am struggling with in my trading now are letting my profits truly run and adding to my winners.

But I understand it’s a process and I work on it constantly. When I cut my losses and spread out bets, I always come back. Trend following and all you have done has been amazing. Appreciate it! When I make my first fortune, the first thing I will do is thank you and Larry.

Regards,
T. P.

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Hi Michael,

I came across your video with Vivek Bajaj from India and got intrigued with your style.

My biggest challenge with trading has been to identify the best indicator which I have never been able to find in the last 2 years. I totally agree with all points mentioned in your 70min video and this is the only approach I am going to take henceforth in the markets.

I am going to follow the 20 day breakout to enter and 10 day breakout to exit rule in Indian markets and commodities and currencies and see how it goes.

Let me know if you have any tips for me.

Thanks a lot.

Kind regards,
Nishant K.

Read all here and here. Trend following is more than just an indicator.

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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.

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