Category: Trend Following

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Hi! My name is Jonathan and I’m from Sweden. I have read your book about the turtles and have started to read your book Trend Following. I love reading your books and started listening more to your podcast. I have struggled to find the right type of contract or financial instrument (unsure of what it’s called). I haven’t yet found any pure futures to trade and wonder if there is an alternative to apply the trend following to such as warrants, options etc.? I have tried CFD’s but found them not fitting for trend following. Hope you can understand my question. Thanks in advance!

Good question. Go here and here.

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My guest today is Brian VanDeMark. He teaches history at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where for more than twenty-five years he has educated midshipmen. He has also been a visiting fellow at Oxford University. VanDeMark was the research assistant on Clark Clifford’s bestselling autobiography Counsel to the President and the coauthor of Robert McNamara’s #1 bestseller In Retrospect.

The topic is Road to Disaster.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Kennedy and Johnson
• Game Theory
• Decision-making

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• Brian VanDeMark
• Road to Disaster
• John F. Kennedy
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Douglas MacArthur
• Richard Nixon
• Bill Clinton

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Hi Michael, my biggest challenge is not having the knowledge for trading. I know how to trade stocks, buy and hold or some swing trades, but don’t know how to read and understand the candle stick charts. I also don’t know how to trade futures, and options and need to develop the confidence to improve my trading skills and understand how to trade futures and options and this would mean understanding how to read the charts, particularly the candlesticks so I can recognize potential opportunities and exit points. I just started reading your book on Turtle Trading and if you have any suggestions for additional books, please let me know. I’m also considering one of your courses, but have no idea which is best suited for me. I’ve been going through Adam Khoo’s free course just to get an understanding and hoping you’re free course will help me better understand the process and then I can go to the next level of taking another course and trying some paper trades. Thanks, Karim

Even more to consume here.

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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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• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
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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.

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My biggest mistake is not taking control of my trading activity and treated it like a side hustle. I learned the hard way when I lost 90% of the funds in my account. I know a whole lot about trend following now though, as I’ve distilled literatures which cut across the trend following universe. I believe it’s the simplest and best way to go about trading. I just have a “yes or no” question for you concerning the strategy you use and recommend for your clients. Do you make use of pyramiding to capitalise on winning trades? Trend following has low win rate as we all know.

You think that’s all you need to know? By the way you ask the question it’s clear you need a complete risk management plan. Knowing whether trend followers pyramid or not is the one thing you are missing.

Start here.

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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.

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My biggest challenge is my timing. I am not a trader, but I realized during the heights of the pandemic that my money was just sitting in the bank and doing nothing at all and letting the banks use it for their gains. Hence I saw an opportunity on stocks when everything went down. A lot of opportunities slipped as my timings slipped. I should have jumped early on the stock and as well as I have opportunities to sell it at the peak and buy it again on lows. But I didn’t know when to do it. for now I have just bought and bought stocks and never sold them yet. But my mind is telling me why not venture into trading as well. And yes, here I am looking for answers to learn more about it.

You are all over the map. You need:

• Exact rules for selecting your tracking portfolio.
• Exact rules for entering your trades at the right time.
• Exact rules for exiting your trades with a loss.
• Exact rules for exiting your trades with a profit.
• Exact rules for how much money to bet on each trade.

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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.

Subscribe to Trend Following Radio on iTunes

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

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Hey Michael! Currently the biggest challenge I’m facing right now I’m my trading journey is relating to hold my winners and only a few big red days wiping out weeks of work. Have started working on having patience and only taking good RR trades.

Thank

Only a few days? Your strategy is?

I’ll give you the data of this year in short. I trade in the Indian Stock market primarily. Option trading the index’s here. Over trading and around 1-2 big red days in a week wipes out the gains for the month or brings it to a small gain or break even. My strategy is based on Price action purely. But it is more towards discretionary than systematic. It is all to do with chart patterns. I lose the most when I chase and over trade because of being focused/fixated on super short time frame (less than 5mins).

That strategy sounds likes a hot mess. Here is an alternative.

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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.