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Hi Mr. Covel,
Im Joao, a 34-yo Brazilian living in Germany. I have worked corporative finance related jobs my whole life and recently discovered my true passion: trading. Trading has always interested me, but social-economic conditions did not allow me not to have a stable job. But three years ago trading came back into my life, and I was certain that the journey was only beginning.
I have big fascination for the markets and price action and have been studying it for the past years. Started as a short-term trader, I have matured against the short-term hits of pleasure and dopamine and am now, for the past several months, focused on the high time frame. Recently I started dedicating my studies towards trend following, and even started to code an algorithm in Python to help me backtest trend following strategies in the crypto market. So far I’ve only been using crypto data, as it is free and easily available.
In the last weeks I’ve been discovering a whole new world, systematic trend following, and it’s been extremely fulfilling and eye-opening – I have absolutely no doubt that this is the correct way for me, and feel very excited and fortunate to have had the chance to find this path. Nevertheless, I’m just starting to tip my toes in the world of strategy building / testing, so am looking for guidance in building my strategy – how complex should it be? Should I include many indicators, volume, etc? Or a simple moving average on the daily + a weekly filter should suffice?
At the same time that I feel a bit lost acknowledging how much info and trials and errors I have ahead of me, I feel extremely excited and grateful when I look back e realize how much I have evolved already. I’m sure I’ll become a successful trend following trader, it’s just a matter of when I’ll get there. I’m extremely disciplined and have a very strong work ethics. All I need now is a bit of guidance to show me the path and, if I’m lucky enough, a feel shortcuts in this amazing journey.
Thank you very much for all of your valuable contributions – I discovered your podcast this weekend and have been listening to it non-stop. I just found out about your book, and will order one immediately.
I hope you’re having a lovey summer.
Kindly,
Joao T.
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